Meme from sartorias

[desayunoencama]

Reading everyone's entries for the "Ten Things I've Done that You Probably Haven't (and if you have, do tell!)" meme has made me feel boring, especially as I tried to come up with 10 things of my own and have realized that while, admittedly, I have done some curious things while growing-up or in college, lately I haven't done anything especially unique. Must try to change this.

My list:

1. Won a trophy at a polo tournament.

2. Had a dwarf octopus or two llamas as a pet. (I am not bothering to list all the more mundane animals, like angora rabbits, mohair goats, horses, cats, dogs, ferrets, chickens, pheasants, canaries, and innumerable psittacines.)

3. Driven to the supermarket in a cart pulled by a goat. (I've also dashed through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh, but that's much more common.) ((Our rottweiler was also able to pull the goat-cart, but we never went farther than the end of the road with him in the traces.))

4. Learned to dance flamenco from a gypsy in Granada.

5. Been translated into Esperanto.

6. Seen Marion Zimmer Bradley naked.

7. Journeyed across Europe with two turtles as my only constant traveling companions.

8. Been "reunited" with (and have since maintained an ongoing close friendship with) the person born two hours after me in the same hospital in NYC where I was born (and where, incidentally, my mother was also born; her mother, while also born in NYC, was orphaned as a child and we don't know where, exactly, my grandmother was born).

9. Blown glass.

10. Created a word that, while not entering general parlance, has been picked up and used by numerous other people not in the context of anything referring to the eponymous book (PoMoSexuals).

Comments

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

A small "eep" for #6, all things considered. #8 and 10 are very cool--I didn't know 10 pointed to you, though I've certainly heard/seen the word.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

I will confess to uttering aloud something a bit stronger than "eep" when #6 (quite unexpectedly) took place.

As for #8, we have since celebrated our mutual birthday together in Moscow, Valencia, Paris, New Haven, St. Louis, and NYC. :-)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was in MZB's hot tub too. (Won't mention who else was there, naked, as most of them are still alive and might not want it mentioned!)

That European stuff is wayyyy cool!

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Reading your recent anecdote about Diana Paxson and Grayhaven, I did think it was possible that you might also have "experienced" #6.

I wasn't actually in the hot tub; rather, I worked for Marion's magazine briefly when I dropped out of college for a semester and moved to California, and was crossing the back yard to the offices when she stood up from said hot tub...

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to make a joke about #9.

[blackholly.livejournal.com]

Those aren't boring!

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

No, but aside from the two literary entries (5 and 10) these all took place in college or, in many cases, even earlier. So, at least a decade ago, since I graduated in 1993. Even in terms of the two literary entries, 5 was in 1999 and 10 was published in 1997.

So, it's LATELY that I've done nothing unique, which is remarked that my recent life has been/become boring.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Except for, you know, the living in Spain thing. And writing comic books. Oh, SO dull. [ahem]