Three Things Meme
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Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done. Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.
1. I have been in all of Thailand's 76 provinces
2. I received a letter of apology from the Israeli police for arresting me
3. I have been onstage with more than a dozen Nobel Prize recipients, and partied with three of them.
Bonus round - some of you *may* have done this:
4. Straddled the geographic International Dateline in Fiji (the political one puts all of Fiji in the same time zone).
5. Had sex with my high school girlfriend for the first time more than 10 years after high school graduation
6. Taught Balkan and Israeli folk dances in Bangkok
7. Worked at Microsoft in the same building as Bill Gates
mastersantiagoRules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done. Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.
1. I have been in all of Thailand's 76 provinces
2. I received a letter of apology from the Israeli police for arresting me
3. I have been onstage with more than a dozen Nobel Prize recipients, and partied with three of them.
Bonus round - some of you *may* have done this:
4. Straddled the geographic International Dateline in Fiji (the political one puts all of Fiji in the same time zone).
5. Had sex with my high school girlfriend for the first time more than 10 years after high school graduation
6. Taught Balkan and Israeli folk dances in Bangkok
7. Worked at Microsoft in the same building as Bill Gates
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Date: 2008-06-26 05:13 pm (UTC)So, up to you. Either...
A. What is the arrest story?, or...
B. When did you party with Nobel prize winners?
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Date: 2008-06-26 06:15 pm (UTC)The arrest is a Long Story™, I'll save that for our next coffee klatch, or maybe our wedding night. ;-)
The Nobel story goes like this: The Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Ruddigore features a scene where the portraits of all the ancestors come alive, step out of their frames, and harass and harangue the heir to the title. There is a song they sing, but it works just as well as a chant, so anyone can play those parts. It only takes a few hours of rehearsal, and the on-stage time commitment is maybe 6 minutes.
The founder of Stanford Savoyards (the campus G&S group) is the wife of a Nobel Prize winner. Every time they do Ruddigore she has her husband (who has a beautiful baritone voice, and is a pretty good actor) invite all the Nobel Prize winners at Stanford to play the ancestors. There have been as many as 11 on stage at one time, I believe. I've been crew for two of those performances, and in the audience for a third, and as a long-time participant I am welcome at the cast parties. The founder always has one at her house, and some of the Nobel winners always show up (it's on campus, very convenient).
Also, in 1995, the woman who was scheduled to direct Yeomen of the Guard had to back out because her husband had won a Nobel and the award ceremony and subsequent Scandinavian vacation were during auditions and rehearsals, so I volunteered to take her place as director (though I would have preferred the Scandinavian vacation). They were back in time to come to cast parties.