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magnetic_pole) wrote2019-07-16 01:41 pm
magnetic_pole) wrote2019-07-16 01:41 pm
Meme: I don't get out often enough...
Hi, flist! I've been too quiet; I'm sorry. I'm struggling with some offline writing that's sapped my energy to do anything else. I should remember the key to posting here is not to stop.
I'm going to dip my toes back in the water with an edited version of a meme I've seen in a couple places. (Copying here fromnachodiablo --thanks!) The take-away seems to be that I need to get out more.
🌴 Been to an Island: Yes, if big islands like Maui or Oahu or Lanzarote or count. (Or Roosevelt Island? Or the île de la Cité in Paris?) To the remote, unpaved kind? No.
✈️ Flown on a Plane: Yes. Probably two trips a year, on average.
🚑 Rode in an Ambulance: Never.
🎤 Sang Karaoke: Never
⛸ Ice Skating: Yes! A few times with my brother and his two boys, who are now playing hockey. I'm surprisingly good at it for a nonathletic newbie. I think it's because I did so much roller skating as a child.
🚢 Been on a Cruise: Never.
🏍 Rode on a Motorcycle: Never.
🐴 Rode on a Horse: Never.
🏥 Stayed in a Hospital: Just the once, when I shattered my elbow and needed an operation.
⭐️ Met a star: Never, if we're talking the Entertainment Weekly kind. That said, I had two world-famous orthopedic surgeons put my elbow back together again. I still appreciate their stellar skills!
🚁 Rode in a helicopter: Never.
📺 Been on tv: Never.
👻 Seen a ghost: Yes! On the Metro North commuter train leaving NYC late at night about twenty five years ago. We passed another train and a hand came out to touch the glass of my window. Not a believer in ghosts, generally, but that was such a vivid, real experience I'm convinced something happened.
I'll paste the meme below, flist, but if you don't want to do the whole thing, do you have any interesting responses to any of these questions? I hope your summer is going well so far!
I'm going to dip my toes back in the water with an edited version of a meme I've seen in a couple places. (Copying here from
nachodiablo --thanks!) The take-away seems to be that I need to get out more. 🌴 Been to an Island: Yes, if big islands like Maui or Oahu or Lanzarote or count. (Or Roosevelt Island? Or the île de la Cité in Paris?) To the remote, unpaved kind? No.
✈️ Flown on a Plane: Yes. Probably two trips a year, on average.
🚑 Rode in an Ambulance: Never.
🎤 Sang Karaoke: Never
⛸ Ice Skating: Yes! A few times with my brother and his two boys, who are now playing hockey. I'm surprisingly good at it for a nonathletic newbie. I think it's because I did so much roller skating as a child.
🚢 Been on a Cruise: Never.
🏍 Rode on a Motorcycle: Never.
🐴 Rode on a Horse: Never.
🏥 Stayed in a Hospital: Just the once, when I shattered my elbow and needed an operation.
⭐️ Met a star: Never, if we're talking the Entertainment Weekly kind. That said, I had two world-famous orthopedic surgeons put my elbow back together again. I still appreciate their stellar skills!
🚁 Rode in a helicopter: Never.
📺 Been on tv: Never.
👻 Seen a ghost: Yes! On the Metro North commuter train leaving NYC late at night about twenty five years ago. We passed another train and a hand came out to touch the glass of my window. Not a believer in ghosts, generally, but that was such a vivid, real experience I'm convinced something happened.
I'll paste the meme below, flist, but if you don't want to do the whole thing, do you have any interesting responses to any of these questions? I hope your summer is going well so far!
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Plane: ... yep. Several times a year.
Ridden in an ambulance: I don't think so.
Karaoke: Nope nope nope.
Ice skating: Well. If you can count falling down a couple of times and really hating it.
Cruise: Never.
Ridden on a motorcycle: Once, pillion behind a novice rider; it was not a pleasant experience. Now, if I could ride with Steve Rogers ...
Ridden on a horse: Yes.
Stayed in a hospital: Ha ha ha ha ha yes so much yes.
Met a star: Yeah.
Ridden in a helicopter: No.
Been on TV: Yeah.
Seen a ghost: Not to my knowledge.
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Wait, you've been on tv, too? Everyone on the flist has had fifteen minutes of fame! M.
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Naxos was my favorite. It was just quiet and lovely and had delicious food and was a great place to rent a moped with one's best friend for $7/day and picnic in whatever olive grove struck our fancy. A "tourist destination" was a family farm with a kouros lying in the middle of the vegetable garden, I kid you not. I spent a blissful month there and wasn't bored for a minute. But that was the Naxos of three decades ago, and I'm given to understand that time machines are not available. Paros I visited v. briefly but, again ... I flew in on a plane carrying 20? passengers and the runway might still have been dirt; there was a donkey watching the flight come in. I'll never go back; I don't want to see what's become of those places.
Santorini is spectacular, of course. It has a must-see archaeological site (the village of Akrotiri) and an active caldera. It was already highly commercialized in the late 80s so funnily enough it's the only one of the islands I've been to that I would revisit. The things that made Naxos so lovely and would draw tourists would be ruined by tourists; the things that make Santorini so splendid and would draw tourists are unruinable: what are they going to do to a caldera when they can't plant a hotel on it?
Being on TV isn't any fun, I promise. The makeup takes longer than the on-air time.