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]

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?" :)