the ten things meme

[astridv]

I thought about my life, trying to think of ten things no one on my friends list has done, and realized one thing: I've been way too well-behaved.

But I have:
1. worked in a Canadian pottery shop
2. talked to Adam West while sitting next to him in a TV studio, having no idea who he was and why people kept calling him 'Batman'
3. spent a day on the set of the X-Files
4. had lunch in a fancy restaurant with one of the lawyers who worked for the show
5. won a two-week trip to the Maledive Islands
6. fallen asleep during art history, feet on the table in front of me, right in front of the lecturer
7. been invited to a Lakota sun dance for several days
8. studied any of these languages for two years or longer: English, Latin, French, Polish, Russian, Japanese... and subsequently forgotten all but the English and Japanese parts
9. worked on a sailboat on the Hudson River
10. and on a farm in Colorado, hearding cows and chasing goats among other things.
(okay, at least the last one, probably not so unique but I'm grasping)

According to this list, nothing out of the ordinary ever happens where I actually live. Or is it more that it doesn't seem interesting if it's part of the daily life, and thus simply didn't come to mind when I made the list? Hmm.

Comments

[lakrids404.livejournal.com]

Interesting or at least interesting compared to what I have done.
*sigh*
You are all individuals
We are all individuals
I am not.
Monthy Python: Life of Brian

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Interesting or at least interesting compared to what I have done.

That's just what I thought when I read all the other lists. One, I forgot whose it was, was so incredible that I thought I'd gotten the meme wrong and it was, like, 'ten outragegous thing that would never happen' or something like that. ;o)

[starlet2367.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, I'd say spending a day on the set of the XFiles is rather unusual. :) Did you go to the Lakota sun dance?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, I'd say spending a day on the set of the XFiles is rather unusual. :)

Well, yeah, I had plenty of exciting things happen during my travels. Just here at home, not so much, apparently. I was trying to recall stuff I did during my time at university... I mean, I was living in a dorm house, there must have been some funny or exciting or embarrassing stuff? Man, we were lame ;o)

Did you go to the Lakota sun dance?

Of course! That was a once in a lifetime chance. Well, maybe not quite, but it was a rare opportunity. We were with the kitchen tent, our job was to help make sure the drummers always got to eat well.

It was very interesting to get first-hand experience of a totally foreign culture and get immersed in it. Me and another German girl had both been interested in native culture, and we were both surprised to see how alive it still is - not just facts in history books, gathering dust.

[heckthecat.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I found your journal by clicking 'random' and have done two of the things on your list- I've fallen asleep in Art History and been yelled at for it (though I didn't have my feet on my desk) and I've worked on a farm in Colorado. Actually, the wife of the guy I came up there with made me a large blue Amish dress O.o;;; I guess she thought I was a girl?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Heh. I didn't even get yelled at... in fact, the guy totally ignored it. And he had every reason to yell, it was totally rude of me - but I simply couldn't keep my eyes open. The fact that his lectures were a snoozefest didn't help.

The 'falling asleep in class' is way more common than I though. I shall try to find something to substitute that one. :o)

Stupid question: which Colorado farm did you work on? (Okay, the chances that it's been the same farm are astronomically slim, but then again... I met this Canadian guy here in Germany and asked him "Oh, you're from Edmonton, do you know X then?" And he answered, "Sure, their daughter was in my class in high school." Of course.

[heckthecat.livejournal.com]

it's realy unlikely it was the same, as I was helping them move in. It was an Amish family out near Alamosa named Gingerich. Fred and
miriam. Actually, I just baked cinnamon rolls yesterday because I missed Miriams. I had her recipe but no eggs so I ended up using a different one that wasn't bad, just not the same. And Amish women don't give ratios for the cinnamon-sugar filling, so I didn't use enough ^_^;

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Nope, not the same one then. The folks I stayed with were definitely not Amish.

I think I'm in the mood to do some baking now... :)