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Ten things I've done that I don't think anybody on my friendslist has...

1) Had something I wrote criticized by Kurt Vonegut.
2) Built an Edwardian evening gown.
3) Worked for a circus (hoopdiver is the exception to this one).
4) Biked from Inman Square in Somerville to the far corner of Lexington (10 miles uphill).
5) I went up to a street performer at Covent Garden after his show and asked to borrow his flaming torches (which were still flaming). He let me, and I juggled them, and I handed them back to him.
6) Composed puzzles for a puzzle event at my college and ran the event by myself.
7) Stage-managed a show in which one of the performers had a seizure on stage.
8) I grew up in a household that didn't have a TV (again, hoopdiver doesn't count).
9) Wore my hair in braids every day for 13 months.
10) Was chased by Canada geese at Wheaton College.

If anybody matches one of these, I shall think of something else I've done that you haven't. :P

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okay, I give up: how do you make those little lightbulb thingies that happen in other people's journals when they talk about other lj users?

Answer here (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75); the tag format is ( lj user="username" ) (replace the "(" with "<").

Was the biking out the Minuteman Trail?

Thanks, I knew it was something like that but I couldn't find it anywhere in the FAQ.

I would have picked up the bike path in Davis (or maybe at Mass Ave) and taken that to Lex. center, at which point I transfer back to Mass Ave for the last mile of the journey (that last mile is the only part with a steep hill, because the bike path is on an old railroad grade).

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75

Interesting list... although when I lived in Davis Sq,

marknic and I used to bike from Davis to the end of the Minuteman Bike trail and back... which I think is in Belmont. approx 22mile). My goal is to try and match that plus more miles this summer. I really want to take a bike tour in the Loire Valley in France next summer. :-)(hopefully)

Actually I meant to say Bedford... not Belmont :-)

I do all right on the bike path, but when I go visit my friends in Lexington, I have to get off the bike path and go up a steep part of Mass Ave, which is the real reason the trip is exhausting.

I think I can reasonably claim to have worked for a circus...

Oh, and come to think of it, I've also juggled flaming torches as a street performer myself. But I suppose your story is sufficiently different from that.

Right, I should've known I had nothing on the circus folks in my friendslist.

Umm, lessee... I knitted clothing for my stuffed animals when I was little.

bubblebabble also grew up without a television.

I'm corrupting him slowly.

Okay. I'm having trouble thinking of something really unique that I've done. I might have to resort to costumey (i.e. career) details.. oh, okay, I've thought of something.

I had dinner with Dr Ruth. I was young enough that I didn't understand who she was; she was in town for a conference and my parents invited her over.

My ex had a condom signed by Dr. Ruth.

o_O

Um, when was this? And where was I?

You must've been there. I've no idea how old we were: maybe 5 and 7 ? Young enough that you wouldn't remember it.

otoh, I could have completely dreamed this up. Want to ask M&D?

I've worked for 2 different circuses. :)

- A very small travelling show run by one of the parents in my high school
- Cirque Du Soleil, here and in DC.

I had no idea! You'll have to regale me with circus stories at some point. What did you do for Cirque?

I tried to teach the then-mayor of Providence, Buddy Cianci, to juggle. He quickly tired of picking the beanbags up off the sidewalk. He is, by the way, famous for being reelected after serving a prison sentence, and being convicted again after his second term as mayor.

...How to tell that someone hasn't been reading my LJ. :)

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=jbsegal&keyword=Cirque&filter=all

Nothing glamorous...

Oh. *blush* I guess I didn't know you were reading mine.

Thanks for the link. Sounds like the same work that

hoopdiver did for them in Hartford. Not too glamorous, but I wouldn't mind being able to watch circus acts while working.

I've worn my hair in at least one braid every day since about 7th grade (7th to 10th grade it was always in 2 braids).

Fine. :P I've made a 70's-style jumpsuit for myself, and actually wore it.

Yep, I wore my hair in two braids every day for three years. 6th through 9th grade. Then one braid, 10th through 12th.

I've definitely worn 70's style jumpsuits, but I haven't made any.

One of us is remembering wrong, then. I wore my hair in braids every day because I wanted to be like you. I was disappointed and triumphant (if that combination is possible) when you admitted (at least, this is how I remember it) that you took an occasional break from wearing braids every day. I decided that if I wore braids every single day without fail for a year, then I was ahead of you and could quit. How odd I was.

Hunh. You're probably right: I find my memory to be slightly holey already.

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