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edenfalling10 Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't
1. Been paid to teach homeschool.
2. Burned the whole palm of my right hand on a radiator. (Fortunately, I was young enough that the skin grew back.)
3. Got sun-poisoning at a mountain lake in Transylvania.
4. Heck, I've been to Transylvania at all. Where I stayed in a Unitarian minister's house. And rowed a boat on Lacu Rosu, managing not to crash into the drowned trees. And visited "Dracula's Castle," which, interestingly enough, the real Vlad the Impaler never set foot in, though he besieged it a couple times.
5. Crossed the Germany-Austria border underground in a salt mine. Twice.
6. Attended an annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society.
7. Split logs the hard way, with a wedge and a maul. (Great for anger-management, btw! Though it's kind of hard on your back and shoulders.)
8. Backed a car halfway through a garage door by accident.
9. Fainted in the London Underground.
10. Spent an entire day with a wood tick embedded in my neck because I thought it was a pimple.
ETA: In the spirit of painful/icky things...
11. Been attacked by thumb-sized horseflies and consequently had lymph nodes swollen to the size of grapes in my neck. For three days. :-)
1. Been paid to teach homeschool.
2. Burned the whole palm of my right hand on a radiator. (Fortunately, I was young enough that the skin grew back.)
3. Got sun-poisoning at a mountain lake in Transylvania.
4. Heck, I've been to Transylvania at all. Where I stayed in a Unitarian minister's house. And rowed a boat on Lacu Rosu, managing not to crash into the drowned trees. And visited "Dracula's Castle," which, interestingly enough, the real Vlad the Impaler never set foot in, though he besieged it a couple times.
5. Crossed the Germany-Austria border underground in a salt mine. Twice.
6. Attended an annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society.
7. Split logs the hard way, with a wedge and a maul. (Great for anger-management, btw! Though it's kind of hard on your back and shoulders.)
8. Backed a car halfway through a garage door by accident.
9. Fainted in the London Underground.
10. Spent an entire day with a wood tick embedded in my neck because I thought it was a pimple.
ETA: In the spirit of painful/icky things...
11. Been attacked by thumb-sized horseflies and consequently had lymph nodes swollen to the size of grapes in my neck. For three days. :-)
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Date: 2005-02-28 05:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-28 07:13 pm (UTC)*winces at the memory*
The garage door, on the other hand, was just embarrassing. :-)
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Date: 2005-02-28 06:11 pm (UTC)1) Worked in a munitions factory shaping spent-uranium armor-piercing shells.
2) Discovered through personal experience that infra-red lasers *are* visible if they're powerful enough.
3) Climbed along a 1-ft-wide ledge atop a 10-story building for the privilege of throwing down a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen.
4) Generated artificial lightning. Big bolts. Zap.
5) Called onto a phone to try to use my limited French vocabulary to explain the concept of statutory rape.
6) Eaten magic brownies purely by accident.
7) One word: hypoparathyroidism. (Long since recovered.)
8) Painted myself blue and posed as an Andorian. (Well, maybe you have...)
9) Levigated pigments from Siena. In Italy.
10) Been kissed by a walrus pup.
-- Paracelsus
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Date: 2005-02-28 07:09 pm (UTC)That reminds me of the time I had an interview as part of a selection process to win a free trip to Germany. The first question asked, after my name, was "How would you explain the current scandal over President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, and what's your opinion on it?"
Which I had to answer, on the spot, in German. :-)
I did win the trip, eventually.
(Hmm. And as long as you're here, I have an H/Hr story a few entries back. You might like it.)