YAMeme: Ten Things

[damont]

My attempt at the 10 things I've done that most of my readers probably haven't. It's actually likely that for each item, one or two readers *have* also done it, but it's very unlikely that any one reader has done more than a couple.

1. Participated in a snowball fight on the 4th of July, in the Northern Hemisphere.
   
2. Replaced the hood on a car.
   
3. Went through the college housing lottery as a member of the opposite sex.
   
4. Had a thesis advisor who graded the wrong thesis through an administrative error. (Took me three months to discover the problem and four more to rectify the situation.)
   
5. Bent a 7-foot pine tree all the way to the ground when only 5 feet tall myself. (By accident. Ouch. Made a 90-degree bend in the first 9 inches of the trunk above ground. The tree eventually unbent itself, and survives to this day.)
   
6. At age 11, with friends of similar age, ran a fundraiser carnival WITHOUT benefit of a prepackaged kit; we didn't even get advice from anyone except our parents, who had never done anything like it before. (Our chosen charity had never heard of such a thing!)
   
7. Graduated at the top of my high school class. (With an outstanding unserved detention too.)
   
8. Sang notes in concert over a range of more than four octaves. (I didn't say all those notes were sung during the SAME concert...)
   
9. Played in the pit orchestra for the first-ever amateur production of Sweeney Todd. (Played all three trombone parts too.)
   
10. Explored the steam tunnels under the W&M campus and found a working campus phone inside them. (The statute of limitations has long since expired, so it's safe for me to mention it.)
    

Comments

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

And you didn't even mention the College of Rencester!