Ten things

[gfish]

I can't resist, even if I do have to be crazy about phrasing things just right to exclude my standard partners in crime...

1. Coded in freefall.


2. Snuck into the Louvre.


3. Wrote a program to keep track of my pants.


4. Started a big meme (spiritrover).


5. Grew up in an underground house.


6. Wrote, filmed and edited a 10 minute movie in 48 hours. Three times.


7. Drove to the Arctic Circle (and watched corivax dance barefoot there).


8. Built a forge out of a propane tank in order to teach myself blacksmithing.


9. Attended a combined 5th and 6th grade class that had just 10 kids in it. (And three of us shared a first name.) (corivax is close enough.)


10. Seriously explored the possibility of amateur genetic engineering.


11. Canvassed nude for clean water. (At a nude beach, but still.)

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[gfish.livejournal.com]

Open. This was 8th grade. No one else in the group had been particularly wild about the Louvre, so I had come by myself, after hitting the Musee Rodin. My first real experience being on my own in a big city. I had forgotten to bring my passport, so I had paid full price to get in. And then I had accidentally left, not realizing that the two main wings were connected directly, so I was going to have to pay full price AGAIN. As I stood there by the enterance, deeply annoyed, a large school group came along. They were only slightly younger than me. Without really thinking about it, I joined the group, walked in with them, and split off immediately afterwords. I have no idea how I had the nerve. But it was completely From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and I was highly pleased.