10 Things Meme

[debka_notion]

Lizarded from shirei_shibolim, nuqotw, fleurdelis28, And sovay...
10 Strange, unusual and/or improbable things I've done:

1. Given myself a dimple by running into my nextdoor neighbors coffee table corner, circa age 1.
2. Directly requested to be put in Hebrew school, and caused my family to join a synagogue.
3. Been mistaken for a teacher while still in middle school by the simple method of wearing a long jean skirt and a blouse.
4. Been offered a job before I was legally allowed to be employed- and they found a way for me to take it, or a variant thereof too.
5. Chosen a college to attend partially based on the fact that I got along with members both of the Orthodox and the GLBTQ communities while visiting.
6. Been taken to a supermarket as a tourist attraction.
7. Been entirely too familiar with the land-based public transit systems for much of the North East.
8. Debated with myself if it was ethically alright to fake not knowing an answer in a geography bee so I wouldn't have to go to the next round. I decided it wasn't.
9. Felt uncomfortably under-loaded because I wasn't carrying trombone, backpack, gig bag, and either purse or fanny pack.
10. Been told my a doctor that I can't be dehydrated, but I am anyways.

Hope that lived up to expectations. If not, well- better answers may come to me later. Probably on the plane (eep, I'm flying somewhere. Tomorrow. For a Kallah- what? Me??) to Toronto.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Explain 6.

[belu.livejournal.com]

Any fun thing can be a tourist attraction.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

What exactly did that explain?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I was visiting agru and her daughter in Rochester, in 10th grade, and they have a very Large and varied supermarket there- so I was taken there as my major experience in seeing the town on what was a very short trip for so much travelling time.

[doodah.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh - I thought you meant *you* were the tourist attraction and that you were taken to the grocery market to be shown off. It made perfect sense to me.

I've taken all of my family members to Whole Foods/Fresh Fields and attempted to turn them into fellow addicts.

[doodah.livejournal.com]

P.S. Who is the kallah? Mazel tov!

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Err- other sort of Kallah- the KOACH Kallah: aka some odd mix of shabbaton and lecture series.

[skyblue-dreamer.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I thought, though I couldn't imagine why Maya would be a tourist attraction.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Hey, your list is the first I've seen that I can say I did things from! (5)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Although I suppose, thinking it over, that it was really that I liked the Conservative community, not the Orthodox community, as well as the GLBTQ community.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Either that isn't so odd after all, or we're just weird in a similar way, I guess.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I suspect the second explanation is correct.

very unusual

[yemeknight.livejournal.com]

The oddest thing about it is that, strictly speaking, you aren't part of either community which you liked! You are not G, L, B, T, or Q, (As far as I know, and I ought to know) nor are you really orthodox. (At least you weren't back then... more like observant conservadox, and I associate that more with Conservative than Orthodox) So you chose your school based on nice communities that you were not strictly part of.

Re: very unusual

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Well, they're both communities I am/was involved with, although never exactly part of. I was in the GSA in high school, as a straight supporter- something these organizations tend to welcome. I'd be involved here, but it's big enough that I never quite made a place for myself there. And while I'm decidedly not Orthodox, I occasionally attend their services, and interact with them a good bit. Basically, they were two very different communities who I thought were likely to touch on my life.

[sovay]

Given yourself a dimple?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Well, I gave myself what was then a Really nasty bruise that lasted for well over a month, I'm told, and apparently cut the muscle fibers in such a way that I ended up with a (luckily appropriately placed) dimple. Hence I have only 1, not the more usual matching pair.