Ten Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't

meme from all over

1. Traveled around the world before my tenth birthday.

2. Been asked, three different times, to take a role in an amateur production a matter of days before the first performance, and done so twice.

3. For many, many years, dealt with lack of "appropriate" heterosexual desire by developing platonic crushes on men who were safely unavailable due to being older, married, and/or dead.

4. Tried to buy stamps in a small town in Bavaria and ended up with a parking permit instead.

5. Been professionally wooed by The Church of Christ, Scientist. (I declined.)

6. Fainted while taking communion.

7. Been assumed to be my father's wife. When I was seventeen and he was forty-five.

8. Worked behind the scenes at an independent research library.

9. Eaten in a restaurant that advertised itself on the menu as offering "good food in a profanity-free atmosphere."

10. Been treated for dehydration in a south Indian hospital.