10 things I've done that you probably haven't

[angharad_gam]

I'm stealing this idea from John Scalzi, because it took my fancy.

1. Spent 22 hours in labour. And 70 mins in labour (different babies)
2. Grew a tooth with the crown pointing backwards into my mouth
3. Read a paper on quantum field theory written in French by a Russian (in the original French, naturally)
4. Cooked for 150 people. More than once.
5. Danced the pavane in the carpark of a roadhouse in Nhill at 3am
6. Walked for two days on a sprained ankle to get out of the Flinders Rangers where I had sprained said ankle.
7. Coughed all the way through a speech by someone who later became premier of South Australia
8. Gotten stuck on a bus because a man on a seat in front of me had a heart attack
9. Worn a small figurine of a man made from a broken capacitor in my hair - as a matter of habit
10. Had a needle inserted into my breast to suck out pus.

Hmmm...I could do this all night. Other things that nearly made the list: dated a Young Liberal, gone without a haircut for 11 years, made marzipan pastries from scratch (including pastry) in a tent whilst up to my ankles in mud, been inside an unmanned underground power station, discovered I am related to Emmeline Pankhurst, contaminated myself with radiation.

Comments

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing you went with your first impulse, because I've done 4 of the things on your alternate list.

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Ooh, are you related to Emmeline Pankhurst too? :-P

[irreparable.livejournal.com]

NGL, I lol'd heartily. XD

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Well it was that or the marzipan pastries...:-D

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

I have done that, but not in a tent up to my ankles in mud.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

gone without a haircut for 11 years

My last haircut was in 1997, Lisa's was ... roughly never, or at least 20 years, as far as I know :)

... haven't done any of the rest, though :)

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough that 11 years for me also began in 1997. But I had about four or five inches of largely split ends taken off in 2008 and my hair has been much better for it.

[dotcom1144.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'm more of an advocate of the idea that there is nothing new under the sun. Think you're blazing a trail, you're probably not. Think you are being unique, you aren't. The large size of the human population means even if only .0001 of humans have ever done what you have done, there are still about 700,000 other people who have also done the same.

It's kind of depressing but at the same time not.