Got a meme tag...

Thanks to Scott of Needs More Garlic for tagging me. Check out Scott's food and cooking blog — it's great. He's in North Carolina, my home state, and in Durham, where I went to college. Whenever I look at his blog, I have to go into the kitchen immediately and fix something good to eat.

Here's my même liste. I'll try not to be too wordy but you know me:

5 things in my freezer

• several gallon-size Ziploc bags of cooked collard greens that I grew in my garden last year
• un pied de veau (a calf's foot)
• un pied de porc (a pig's foot)
• many Ziploc bags full of baguette slices (I usually buy too much from the bread lady and end up making crumbs out of them)
• two quarts of couscous soup left over from a back-yard couscous party I had last Tuesday

5 things in my closets

• about 85 t-shirts, most of which I got as freebies from the companies I worked for in Silicon Valley
• a rolled-up map of the vineyards of the Touraine wine area that I mean to get mounted and framed one of these days
• a navy-blue béret basque that I bought as a gift for my father in 1975 and that my mother packed up and sent me recently when she was getting ready to sell her house
• an extra QWERTY keyboard (U.S. standard) in case the one I'm using gives up the ghost
  
• a box containing hundreds of letters and aérogrammes that I wrote and sent to my parents when I lived in France in the 1970s (in the days before e-mail) — also shipped over to France by my mother, who had saved them in the attic
  

5 things in my car

• a map of the French départements with their numbers so that I can identify the home département of passing cars by their license plates
• two little tokens, one plastic and one metal, that I use instead of a one-euro coin in order to be able to get a shopping cart at supermarkets (you put a coin or token in to unlock the cart, and you get it back when you put the cart back in the rack)
• a fold-out map of the Loir-et-Cher département, where I live
• a tire pressure gauge calibrated in pounds per square inch, not bars
• scanned and printed copies of my passport and residency permit so that I don’t have to carry the originals around all the time
  

5 things in my wallet

• 79,23€ because I went to the bank and took out 100€ last Wednesday
• my California driver's license, which expires in 2008
• cartes de fidélité from Monsieur Vaillant's droguerie and the Côté Sud wine & gift shop, both on the pedestrian street in St-Aignan
• a scrap of paper with the phone numbers of my friends the Paulets scribbled on it
• my library card for the Bibliothèque Municipale in Mareuil-sur-Cher

I'm going to tag my partner Walt to see what he might come up with.