I generally don't like memes, but this one (from Eve via Camassia) is really a fun idea: list ten things you've done that your readers probably haven't. Nine of these are things I've done in the past 12 months. So here goes:
1. Appeared on the Glenn Sacks show.
2. Had an IV after finishing a 50K.
3. Get pulled out of a car at gunpoint by adolescent soldiers in the middle of nowhere, Cesar province, Colombia.
4. Begin writing children's stories about chinchillas. (One special one in particular).
5. Donate money to both Planned Parenthood and Feminists for Life in the same calendar year.
6. Get Kate Winslet confused with Cate Blanchett while watching the Oscars. (Really.)
7. Get on a transatlantic flight under my own power, and leave slumped in a wheelchair.
8. Serve as faculty adviser for Campus Crusade for Christ while attending a liberal Episcopal Church and teaching gender studies.
9. Serve as foreperson of a jury,and rather than convict, do everything possible to hang the jury (hey, I had reasonable doubt.)
10. Publicly declare a commitment to vegetarianism, and fall off the wagon with a carne asade burrito three days later.
Hey Hugo,
don't worry about the burrito setback, membership in People for Eating Tasty Animals encourages this sort of behavior. :)
as for the kate/cate mix up, i couldn't tell you who's who, nor could i name any movie either was in.
and if you publish a children's book soon, i could read it to my children and for once say i know the author, or at least that he was an instructor of mine.
Posted by: joe | March 07, 2005 at 09:34 PM
I don't like this game. It's no good for those of us who are ordinary, and lead boring, predictable lives.
Posted by: djw | March 07, 2005 at 11:57 PM
oh, those damn carne asada burritos. devil's work, I tell ya.
Posted by: jp | March 08, 2005 at 09:11 AM
Was the case a drug prosecution?
Posted by: Emily | March 09, 2005 at 06:30 AM
You are actually writing!! You are actually writing children's stories!! ...This is fabulous! You have great writing ability and I'm really happy to see you put it to a different use. I am so excited for you!
Don't worry about the vegetarian set back. You can't get down on yourself over things like that. We all need to deviate from our own strict guidelines for ourselves every once in a while. We all need a treat, to splurge,..to just plain enjoy something!
Posted by: J.J.B. | March 09, 2005 at 09:57 AM