Meme: I don't get out often enough...

[magnetic_pole]

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 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!

🌴 Been to an Island: ✈️ Flown on a Plane: 🚑 Rode in an Ambulance: 🎤 Sang Karaoke: ⛸ Ice Skating: 🚢 Been on a Cruise: 🏍 Rode on a Motorcycle: 🐴 Rode on a Horse: 🏥 Stayed in a Hospital: ⭐️ Met a star: 🚁 Rode in a helicopter: 📺 Been on tv: 👻 Seen a ghost:

Comments

[magnetic_pole]

I always forget you have this horse-y background! Have we talked about R's fascination with the ridiculous teen drama Free Rein? I don't know what about this show appeals to her, but she's all about competitive horse riding drama these days. I'll have to imagine teen!you among the cast of characters next time.

Hm. Patrick Stewart is very impressive. Quite possibility in that top tier of folks I'd like to meet in person, actually.

Fun! I bet you were a sweetheart on Songs of Praise--and now you can be famous, because somehow all famous people have footage of themselves as a child. :) M.

[liseuse]

We have! I find it adorable! The actual horse riding was very competitive but when and where I was doing it produced a very odd mix of kids/early teenagers who were competing - some of them were the stereotype of rich entitlement, but mostly it was people whose parents lived on farms, people who lived near farms (me!), and who had ended up competing in show jumping and cross country purely because once you'd mastered hacking around you might as well try something new.

He was very kind and he gave an excellent speech, as one would imagine. Definitely a better speech than PhD Uni's then-Chancellor who gave a not very relevant speech about the developments in Earth Science and Health research to a hall full of people getting various humanities degrees (Earth Sciences and Health research are super important! But we hadn't done any of it!) which then got a bit weird and jingoistic in a vaguely racist "yay Empire!" way.

I looked very angelic. The irony is that at no point was I singing because that's not in my skillset, but we lived in a very small village and all local children were roped in to look angelic.