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Fifteen Things I've Done that You Probably Haven't
The "Ten Things I've done that you probably haven't" is an old meme, but it's one of the few that actually interest me. I saw it at John Scalzi's (SF author) blog, The Whatever, and it got me thinking. I've done a lot of cool shit! And not just because of travel, but also because my choice to participate in some weird things. Some of these are described elsewhere on the Livejournal, but not all of them. I had trouble whittling it down to ten, so there's 15. So here's my list:

1) Gotten stuck for 3 hours on a glacier in Alaska while waiting for a new airplane to pick us up.
2) Mistakenly herded sheep while hitchhiking in Ireland.
3) Eating a “spacecake” in Amsterdam - and failing to get high. After numerous warnings to eat it slowly because of its strength.
4) Been served shrimp cocktail in the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
5) Watching my parents renewing their vows in a Blue-Hawaii themed Elvis wedding in Vegas with two separate Elvises, one of them under 5 ft high.
6) Lived in a house in incredibly rural Maine for three weeks that was originally infested with spiders, lacked running water, and was surrounded by poison ivy.
7) Stayed up until dawn every day for a week straight to film a goofy movie about zombies and vampires that I starred in and had written the script for.
8) Got paid $500 for only watching one hour of TV per week for six months (when I was in sixth grade).
9) Ran around campus and through classrooms dressed up as Sue from Ms. Pac-Man with the other ghosts and Pac-Man.
10) Have interviewed Bill Nye. He carries a copy of the periodic table in his wallet!
11) Seen the only remaining head of a dodo complete with skin. It’s stored in the back storage area of the Oxford Museum of Natural History.
12) Bicycled 92 miles in one day while only planning to ride 50 (AIDS Ride for Life).
13) Walked around downtown Oxford dressed in a sheet with a logo on it and worshiping random corporate stores – McDonalds, Starbucks, etc.
14) Writing “like a buffalo thunder, with a smell of sugar” and other lyrics from Dirty Epic in chalk on the sidewalk as people walk by and give you some very strange looks.
15) Drank five-euro champagne under the Eiffel Tower in a raging thunderstorm.

Unlike most of my other blog entries, this one is a lot more fun with a bit of audience participation. Feel free to answer it in your blog or in the comments. So what have you done that I probably haven't?