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I really should be doing work instead of this. You should poke me to make sure I do. (Or I should go to sleep. One or the other.)
23. Watched a meteor shower
I know people have enthused at me about them but I don't think I have ever got around to watching them.
24. Got drunk on champagne
If anyone ever managed to persuade me to drink any champagne, which I doubt they have, I would probably immediately have gone "aargh *splutter*" for apparently it's very fizzy. And not *very, very sweet* as any drink which isn't water ought to be.
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
I don't give enough to charity. I should give more; in fact, once I sat down and calculated exactly how much. (About £15 a month.) But every time I look around I think 'aargh too many things that need supporting and splitting the cash every which way is dim and aargh' and fail to do anything.
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
I can't actually remember when or why, but I have a distinct memory of some guy I barely knew who had a telescope and looking at stuff with my cousins, and my dad trying to point stuff out and show me how to work the thing. It was a little telescope, very thin and quite long and portable and mounted on a tripod (also portable) in the middle of a field.
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
I can't remember a specific incident; on the other hand I know that I giggle when I'm nervous and did so on at least several occasions when being told off by overly pompous teachers for incredibly stupid reasons.
28. Had a food fight
Our old church youth group (the one called Crowded House) traditionally had food fights whenever we had a meal. On one notable occasion we were invited as a cell group in our own right to the rather serious Maundy Thursday meal at the church. When we had run out of breadsticks we tore the paper tablecloth into little bits to fashion more projectiles. I don't think we were invited back. (I'm also pretty sure it was our leaders who started it; it normally was.)
29. Bet on a winning horse
I think the closest I have come to betting money on anything was when I was a little kid and the village festival had all kinds of 'pay 20p and pick a foo, some foos win prizes' type things, and of course guess-the-number-of-sweets things I always took very seriously and always lost.
30. Called in sick when you were not ill
I have occasionally decided not to go to school then felt really guilty when I perked up mid-day, not noticing that I generally fell over and went to sleep again by 5pm on such days. I did arbitarily quit one job because I was bored, although that was in my dad's company so barely counted.
31. Asked out a stranger
I'm not sure where this weird behaviour of asking people out came from. Generally it just leads to people who are not ready to be referred to as boyfriend and girlfriend thinking they have something to live up to because they've had these tags stuck to them. I generally consider that by the time you can confirm that you are 'going out' with someone instead of just being friends, you have also progressed to the stage where you don't actually need to ask. It's entirely possible I'm being inconsiderate or missing something here, though.
((Also, there's some doubt over what 'asking out' entails. 'Do you want to come to the cinema?', a traditional method of 'asking out', could equally mean 'you're interesting, so is this film, come and heckle it with me'. I think it hurts the ability of people to do things platonically when you colour everything with this spectre of 'going out' and 'dates' and stuff.))
((Dates are a yummy kind of fruit.))
32. Had a snowball fight
People who have not had a snowball fight, given oppertunities with snow, are definitely somewhat deficient. Even if it does all cake onto your gloves and make you cold and wet and probably bruised if someone is packing the snow right down so it flies better. Not that I'd ever do a thing like that, oh no. *fails to whistle, innocently*
23. Watched a meteor shower
I know people have enthused at me about them but I don't think I have ever got around to watching them.
24. Got drunk on champagne
If anyone ever managed to persuade me to drink any champagne, which I doubt they have, I would probably immediately have gone "aargh *splutter*" for apparently it's very fizzy. And not *very, very sweet* as any drink which isn't water ought to be.
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
I don't give enough to charity. I should give more; in fact, once I sat down and calculated exactly how much. (About £15 a month.) But every time I look around I think 'aargh too many things that need supporting and splitting the cash every which way is dim and aargh' and fail to do anything.
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
I can't actually remember when or why, but I have a distinct memory of some guy I barely knew who had a telescope and looking at stuff with my cousins, and my dad trying to point stuff out and show me how to work the thing. It was a little telescope, very thin and quite long and portable and mounted on a tripod (also portable) in the middle of a field.
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
I can't remember a specific incident; on the other hand I know that I giggle when I'm nervous and did so on at least several occasions when being told off by overly pompous teachers for incredibly stupid reasons.
28. Had a food fight
Our old church youth group (the one called Crowded House) traditionally had food fights whenever we had a meal. On one notable occasion we were invited as a cell group in our own right to the rather serious Maundy Thursday meal at the church. When we had run out of breadsticks we tore the paper tablecloth into little bits to fashion more projectiles. I don't think we were invited back. (I'm also pretty sure it was our leaders who started it; it normally was.)
29. Bet on a winning horse
I think the closest I have come to betting money on anything was when I was a little kid and the village festival had all kinds of 'pay 20p and pick a foo, some foos win prizes' type things, and of course guess-the-number-of-sweets things I always took very seriously and always lost.
30. Called in sick when you were not ill
I have occasionally decided not to go to school then felt really guilty when I perked up mid-day, not noticing that I generally fell over and went to sleep again by 5pm on such days. I did arbitarily quit one job because I was bored, although that was in my dad's company so barely counted.
31. Asked out a stranger
I'm not sure where this weird behaviour of asking people out came from. Generally it just leads to people who are not ready to be referred to as boyfriend and girlfriend thinking they have something to live up to because they've had these tags stuck to them. I generally consider that by the time you can confirm that you are 'going out' with someone instead of just being friends, you have also progressed to the stage where you don't actually need to ask. It's entirely possible I'm being inconsiderate or missing something here, though.
((Also, there's some doubt over what 'asking out' entails. 'Do you want to come to the cinema?', a traditional method of 'asking out', could equally mean 'you're interesting, so is this film, come and heckle it with me'. I think it hurts the ability of people to do things platonically when you colour everything with this spectre of 'going out' and 'dates' and stuff.))
((Dates are a yummy kind of fruit.))
32. Had a snowball fight
People who have not had a snowball fight, given oppertunities with snow, are definitely somewhat deficient. Even if it does all cake onto your gloves and make you cold and wet and probably bruised if someone is packing the snow right down so it flies better. Not that I'd ever do a thing like that, oh no. *fails to whistle, innocently*
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:16 pm (UTC)From:When I was in college, one of the amusing things to watch was the reaction of other students to the first snowfall. You could tell who had grown up with snow, because they were generally inside by the fire, or studying, or doing something like that. The students from warmer places were all outside, throwing snow and making snowmen like mad.
Of course, there was also the great tradition in which our rather small college had a "friendly snowball fight" during the first decent snow with the neighboring, rather large, state university. It was more like a mass invasion, and after the first few friendly volleys everyone got down to business and there was more than a little malice in it.
I still throw snowballs at the bandar log when they are out playing and I'm trying to shovel the walk. I'd like to claim that they always start it, but I'd be lying in my teeth.
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Date: 2004-11-19 06:15 pm (UTC)From:On the other hand I'm the wierdo who thinks the difference between friends and 'going out' is shagging or at least some dodgyness because I'll do anything with friends except that haveing sex makes them more-than-friends. Apparently this attitude is wierd or something.
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Date: 2004-11-21 03:55 pm (UTC)From:Asking people out who you don't know very well doesn't make much sense, but I don't think people do that (of course, then there are people who don't talk to the opposite sex much, so that's the only way =P).
That said, being asked out by someone you like is great =-)