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

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.