Gratuitous memeness

[slipjig3]

Y'know, I am entirely too susceptible to intriguing list concepts. See, I was about to go to bed a half-hour ago, but then catamorphism went and did the "50 Things I've Done" meme, and, well, long and short is, I'm still awake.

50 Things I've Done

I have:
1) made mushroom risotto
2) worked as an extra on a John Goodman movie
3) walked several miles as part of a peace march through upstate New York
4) been the proud owner of Stephen Sondheim's home mailing address
5) eaten alligator
6) danced in the rain
7) learned how to say "word to your mother" in Russian
8) gotten the chicken pox
9) stepped in on opening night of a musical to fill in for an injured dancer, during a number I hadn't really rehearsed
10) been present for the birth of two earth-shakingly wonderful children
11) beaten my father in chess (but never in go)
12) shot pool in an under-21 gay dance hall in Oklahoma city
13) run up a three-digit library fine
14) reach my 30's having never gotten stoned or even particularly drunk
15) solved Kit Williams' Book Without a Name, before the deadline
16) assisted two friends in launching racquet balls over the roof of Foellinger Auditorium at the U of I with a giant slingshot
17) celebrated Beltane in Salem
18) run into both Siskel and Ebert, on separate occasions
19) gotten married, twice
20) written 26 pages of a play that got abandoned
21) sat for Quaker silence
22) had a pot luck dinner with a stripper
23) lay on my back in the grass watching jets draw vapor trails
24) bought a minivan
25) watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
26) had a total of 5 teeth extracted
27) come in second place in 11 different spelling bees in one year
28) been briefly groped at the Wendy's drive-thru window
29) memorized Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"
30) taken a 17-hour train ride
31) attempted to make a spiced apple wine, and failed
32) recorded a CD
33) gotten published in a national magazine
34) been called a "legend" by someone who'd never met me
35) had my ear pierced
36) lived 32 years without a single broken bone or hospital stay, not counting the post-partum stay
37) received a bachelor's degree
38) been involved in a water balloon fight on a moving bus
39) sat in one of the senators' seats at the Illinois State Hall in Springfield
40) sailed on Lake Michigan
41) worn a dress in public
42) grown my hair past my shoulders
43) accidentally sent a paycheck through the laundry
44) spent a day hanging out with a future "Star Trek: Voyager" star
45) tossed a coin, and had it land on edge
46) bet on a horse race, and won
47) visited Maine
48) walked barefoot in the snow
49) made love outdoors
50) slept until noon

If you'll excuse me, now I'm going to sleep. G'night, kids.

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I think the "meme" (recoils in disgust at the abuse of terminology) should be extended so that everyone comments to say which ones they've done. So: 13, 33, 35, 37, 41, 42, 47, 49, 50 (noon? That's early!)

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

And then, Boggle-style, you get points for each thing that no one else has done. The winner gets a cookie.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck, if I'd known we were doing that... Um, can I change my list?

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up, the two things I could never beat my father at were 1) chess, and 2) ping-pong. He had this nasty serve that I just couldn't return.

I finally beat him in chess in high school. I finally finally beat him in ping-pong in senior year high school.

I have a memory of you reciting Porphyria's Lover at the entrance of the Graduate Library where Wright street ends. Or someone reciting poetry they have memorized - think it was you, and think it was Browning.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Hm. You're probably right; that would've been the period when I was going around reciting that ("And yet God has not said a word." *evil grin*). Don't remember the incident, though.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

This is so cool! I love this idea. I hope I remember to do this too. Your list inspires a lot of questions in me! Probably the most pressing is: what did the stripper bring to the potluck dinner?

I can say "I want babies" and "put that shelf away" in Russian.

And I once came in second in a spelling bee too! Just once though. And the word was "billed". I spelled it like "build", because I was spacing out in a state of panic at the moment that they used it in a sentence! argh! I was 9.