Bowing to peer pressure

[kellinator]

Or, I haven't written anything interesting on LJ in forever and I've already told most of these stories but what the hell, I'm bored.

Ten things I've done that you probably haven't:

1. Beat Ken Jennings at Final Jeopardy. (Unfortunately for my pride and my bank account, that was all I beat him at.)
2. Fallen asleep in the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. While the music was still going, even.
3. Held a book that Anne of Cleves gave to Henry VIII as a wedding present.
4. Gotten kicked out of grad school. Not dropped out, kicked out.
5. Given a romance novel a negative review that was then twisted to sound like a positive review and quoted in the author's next book.
6. Accepted a marriage proposal made over a telnet chat program.
7. Gotten trashed at the administrative headquarters of my university while still underage, under the eyes of the campus police.
8. Gotten a small crowd of Vandy students seated in the end zone to yell "Another Heath Shuler" at Peyton Manning during a football game.
9. Placed in a high-school poetry contest... with a poem about Duke basketball.
10. Scored my first roadkill in a driver's ed class.

Comments

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Duke basketball certainly can be worthy of poetry. Saturday's game sure as hell wasn't, tho.

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Wait, are you a Blue Devil fan too?

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Class of 2002! Tented for 3 of 4 years, too.

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

...

OMGWTFBBQ, IASMAA. (It's A Small World After All.)

Class of 2001 here.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

TOO WEIRD. And I see you're an engineer, so there's a high chance I might have known you. (I was English, but I tented with 9 engineers/comp sci guys. And a couple girlfriends.)

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Haha, I saw your comment on this entry, and I looked at your profile too.

If you tented with CPS guys from c/o 2002 we almost definitely had shared friends and acquaintances. I was the CPS130 (required class for the major) TA for like 5 semesters, so I saw almost every CPS major in c/o 2002 and 2003. What sort of engineers? If they were BME's or EE's I probably knew a few of them...

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Oh, some of each. Jim A was EE, Jim R ('01, the rest are '02) was... hmm... I think EE as well, Cody was ME, Doug was BME, Christian was plain CPS, Steve was I think BME and CPS double, Andy was... hm... maybe just CPS? Todd D was ... something convoluted. I think he had a CPS and EE double, and then our senior year they retroactively apply a Computer Engineering major, so he had 3 without any extra effort.

I think I must have known a couple girl engineers, too, but I can't think who :-D

(Sorry to shanghai your thread, Kel!)

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute... Was Jim A pretty tall, with short dark hair and glasses, DJ'd for WXDU, went to grad school in California, and good friends (possibly roommates?) with the boyfriend Marcos (sorry, I read your short bio!) who works in the Duke library system?

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Oh yep, that's the one. He roomed with Marcos 2 summers -- one summer it was them and Steve M, and the next summer it was just Jim and Marcos. He's still at Cal Tech, actually, working on the PhD. He's one of my best friends from Duke.

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Okay, this isn't just a small world, this is an insanely tiny world.

While Jim was a senior, I was a grad student, he and I worked together, doing research for the same professor. In fact, if you were around in summer 2002, you might have played frisbee with Jim, Marcos, me, and a bunch of other people over on East Campus behind Southgate, where they're building the new freshman dorm.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

JESUS. What's your name? I almost definitely played frisbee with you at some point that summer. You prolly know a lot of the other grad students I know then, too, like John B, Evan C, Jason J ... Mike S who got his PhD last year...

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, this is just TOO WEIRD.

Charles L. And you are?

And YES, I know John B., Evan C., Dave K., Jason J., and Mike S. (actually, Mike S. and I lived in the same house together when we were undergrads!) I actually was back in Durham just a few weeks ago, and I stayed with Evan and Mike.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

GLUE HANDS. Or something like that. Right? Or maybe that was the other Charles. Were there two?

I'm Libbet. The only one at Duke, so I'm easy to remember. I was in chorale with Dave K and John B.

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I remember you now.

I don't recall GLUE HANDS. I was the one who made bad puns and Jim constantly made an X with his hands and said "You're banned. You're just banned."

I'm talking with Evan right now actually (he was still up), and he says to mention the The Llama Song. =)

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

There was someone who just made absolutely insane catches in the end zone, all the time. We called whoever he was "glue mitts" or something like that, because he nearly never dropped a catch.

Haha, the X. I miss the X. I just can't pull it off -- I think you have to be 6'4" to do it properly. Our friend Steve got the X from Jim more than anyone I've ever known.

Hee. Llama llama duck!! I was singing this at dinner Saturday night when Jason was in town, and lucky Evan was sitting next to me at the time. Tell him I poke him in the ribs for getting it in my head again.

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Evan and I figured out that was Ron L. who was making the insane catches

Yeah, it was Jim's arms that made the X possible. Hee hee. You're just banned.

Evan says talking about you reminds him of Kingdom of Loathing but he can't log in.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

Ron, that's the one. Now I have the names+faces right.

Heh, Jim's arms are insanely long. He could practically wrap them around me twice when he hugged me.

Tell Evan to keep trying, it took me about 7 tries the first time I logged in. I think it tries a bunch of different servers.

On that note, I have GOT to go to bed. I added you :)

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

At some points, there may have been three Asian guys playing frisbee that summer, a 5'8" guy without glasses (Joe L.), a 5'10" guy with glasses (Charles L., me), and a 5'8" bigger guy with or without glasses (Ron L.) Evan and I can't remember for sure if Joe L. played frisbee or not (he definitely played basketball with us).

I added you too. =) Miss Kelly Ann is going to wake up tomorrow to find a FLOOD in her inbox from lj comments.

Time to sleep here too. In fact, I should have slept like an hour and a half ago. Doorknob ankle cold. This message thread is wearing thin, I've run out of luck, time for me to retire now, and become a duck. =)

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

I don't think I met an Asian Joe. Marcos remembers you tho -- the first thing he said was "You mean the one with the bad puns?" :)

[sertrel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and Kelly, I'm sorry about hijacking your replies thread like this too, but this is just too wack. I should have gone to bed like an hour ago, but now I just HAVE to know.)

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

(Ditto.)

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Guys, stop apologizing! I'm getting warm fuzzies watching this! :)

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

And how do you guys know each other? From a sports community or something?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Ummm, I think we met originally through wintersweet? We like to call each other up and bash the latest episode of SVU (frequently while tipsy). sertrel rocks!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Guys, stop apologizing! I'm getting warm fuzzies watching this!