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[joegoda]

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Food prep, Sonic. Horrible! I started to smell raw meat where ever I went.
2. Janitor, Braden Industries. The start of my favorite OCD - Cleaning.
3. Superintendant of a five story apartment building in Silver Springs, MD.
4. Head programmer for a stupid company that said "Windows? It's just a fad."

Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. What Dreams May Come
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Flight of the Pheonix - original version with Jimmy Stewart
4. Second Hand Lions - Biographical of my brother Sam and I.

Four Places I have lived:
1. Crawfordsville, IN
2. Broken Arrow, OK
3. Under bridges, on park benches. Yes, I was one of the homeless.
4. Silver Springs, MD

Four T.V. Shows I love to Watch:
1. Full Metal Alchemist
2. Whose line is it, anyway?
3. House, M.D.
4. Any decent movie that happens to be on.

Four Places I have been on Vacation:
1. Terre Haute, IN
2. Eureka Springs, AR
3. Syracuse, NY
4. Washington, DC

Four Web Sites I visit daily:
1. Yahoo mail, news and comics
2. Live Journal, of course.
3. Not a whole lot after that, unless you want to include my constant search oddity

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Chicken Parmesean
2. LadyH's Chili
3. Home Made Mushroom Pizza
4. Home made bread

Four places I would rather be:
1. Home
2. With Bags and Griz, and I'm talking bout their Planet!
3. On a movie set somewhere
4. Mancos, CO

Four people I think will respond:
Does this suppose I will expect folks to respond. To my post? This aint BP&G, folks!

Comments

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

^___^ *responds*

What was it like to be homeless? Were you scared?

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Nope. Oddly enough, I wasn't scared a bit, mostly because I seem to have an attitude that people just don't bother with. Don't act like a victim, don't be a victim. Just that simple.

It was in 1977, when the world was a lot different in small town Oklahoma. It was only about 6 months, but it taught me a lot about survivability. I slept on the park benches in Central park, when it rained, I found an over pass and snuggled down. It was noisy, but you get used to a lot. Dumpster diving came very naturally, just cuz you give up your pride. You learn to wash when you can, and you learn that swimming in apartment house pools with your clothes on is a good alternative to a coinop laundry.

My parents split up, and I was severly pissed off at both of them. I refused to live with either of them, and I didn't have any friends to speak of that would put up with me for any great length of time. It was summer, so I didn't have to worry about being cold. Basically, I suspect I was lucky. Very, Very lucky. And stupid. It was an adventure, that's about all I can say.

Now, I wouldn't ever, ever, every, want to go back to that. I found a job, moved in with my mom and my brother, and never looked back.

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

Wow...may sound weird to apply this word to it, but that sounds pretty cool. :o

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

It was, all in all, an incredible learning experience. You find that at the root, all people are stil just people.

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for sharing Story Teller, it's good to know.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, Peddler. I don't know why it's good to know, tho I'm glad you feel that way. I am glad I had the experience, because it's part of the sum total of me, and without me, where would I be? Also lets me see a bit deeper into the world of the Outskirters, the cast aways of the City Of Tears.