And I'd Do It Again
I got this from VJ at Gentle Breezes. She tributes it to Cheeky Prof, who in turn thanks pilgrim heretic
and several others, anyway, here it is:
Ten things I've done you probably haven't.
1. Interviewed a woman whose child was about to die.
2. Videotaped a liver transplant.
3. Been inside a cage with lemurs.
4. Gone on a dinosaur dig.
5. Inadvertently caused the NCAA to change it's recruitment rules.
6. Quit my job via a currier.
7. Made $600 dollars in one day of blue collar work.
8. Taught a college course in which almost half the class had ADHD.
9. Hired the person who used to be my boss.
10. Watched a burn victim get dead skin scrubbed off of most of his back.
Plus ten more for good measure.
1. Folded and packaged chamois.
2. Won the pinewood derby for my entire town.
3. Worked as a barker for a dart game at an amusement park.
4. Stood atop the crows nest of a navy Battleship.
5. Got paid to backpack in bear country.
6. Ruptured my eardrums doing a cannonball off of a rope swing.
7. Kayaked the oldest river in the US, and the second oldest in the world.
8. Tutored special needs kids.
9. Watched Michael Jordan miss a free throw, get the rebound, and dunk the ball … in person.
10. Took pictures leaning out of an open helicopter door.
Feel free to ask for clarification of any or all.
Sounds like your memoirs would be fun to read!
Posted by: AGK | March 09, 2005 at 02:07 PM
OK - 'splain #5 ... both of them 5s ;-)
Heard most of the 'splanations by now just need clarification on these two 5s
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Posted by: willi | March 16, 2005 at 04:20 PM
This should answer the quetions below.
5. Inadvertently caused the NCAA to change it's recruitment rules.
I wrote a recruitment video for Jim Valvano, and NC State. We used video of past players that had gone pro both playing for their pro team, and speaking directly to camera as if the camera was a recruit. After that year of recruiting, schools were more limited as to how they could use former school players for recruiting purposes.
5. Got paid to backpack in bear country.
I helped shot a portion of a North Carolina Now PBS show that required backpacking. How do I know it was bear country? There were log cabin style lean-to's with chain link fence covering the open side.
Posted by: Gary Moos | March 16, 2005 at 07:28 PM
Umm, there are somethings there I think I would pass out if I had to observe or do them. There are others that... well, I'm glad YOU did them and not me. Though I did hang over the edge of a turbulant waterfall just to get a picture of a flower growing on the ledge. Angelo got a picture of me doing it.
Posted by: VJ | March 18, 2005 at 11:33 PM
HOLY CRIPES. Normally I have part of one in common but this list is truly a one of a kind. Most of them I wouldn't want to do!
Posted by: Hula Doula | March 19, 2005 at 12:19 PM
You're even more interesting than I suspected!!!!!!!!
Posted by: RobinP | March 19, 2005 at 05:22 PM