☆ Tabrel
16 Thingies
I was tagged by wonderful, talented, and just plain scrumptious dr_nik to post 16 things about me.
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01. I can't tell you the name of one single person in my High School graduating class. I went to three different High Schools.
02. I started riding motorcycles when I was 11.
03. When I was 7 I climbed up on top of a house and my mom and her friend saw me walking on the roof thru a skylight. My mom pulled a branch off a Weeping Willow tree and lashed my legs until blood was just pouring down and my socks were soaked. It was summer and I was wearing shorts.
04. I took a class in Nuclear Cosmochemistry and was the only undergraduate to make an "A" (and only one grad student got an "A" too). The professor hired me to do research in his group and I authored or co-authored around 10 scientific papers. I've done 14 papers total, and they all put me to sleep.
05. Someday I want to have a bison ranch.
06. In elementary school I found I would throw up if I tasted mayonnaise. I used it when I really wanted to get out of school, and nobody ever caught on.
07. In film school I won an award for a B&W experimental short I did in Super-8 Reversal.
08. I once got a parasite from eating at a McDonalds. For a week if I so much as drank water I coughed up blood. I thought I was going to die. I went from 125 lbs (56.7 kg) to about 109 lbs (49.5 kg). This morning I weighed 193 lbs (87.5). I haven't eaten McDonalds in over 20 years.
09. I once set a house on fire by accident, and I had to go apologize to the owners.
10. I sometimes have very vivid dreams that come true, and I have witnesses because these dreams have a certain "flavor" to them so I started telling other people when I had one. I don't think I can see the future, I think my subconcious is very good at extrapolating data. I've also solved Calculus problems in my sleep I couldn't solve otherwise.
11. I've seen 13 tornadoes. In the early 1970s in Nashville I looked straight up the funnel of one as it hopped over our car. The car was rocking side to side and I looked on the up swing.
12. One year I went to a ranch were I would go fishing and riding horses. They had captured a grizzly and the mate would come down the mountain at night madder than Hell. They told us to be extra careful because it might come near the cabins. One day I was trout fishing way upstream, and I found a place were I could put my back against a dirt embankment so I wouldn't have to worry about something coming up behind me. I let my line go downstream and after a while there was this really loud roar right in my ear. I took off running down the icy cold stream, getting tangled in my line, and when I turned around a hummingbird had flown so close to my ear that its wings sounded like this roar.
13. I haven't been kissed in over 2 years.
14. I was thrown out of college for one year.
15. I've worked with two people that were embezzling at the time, and I helped catch one of them.
16. The physically largest trophy I got as a kid was for memorizing the most bible verses in one year. It's even bigger than the trophy I got because my Little League team was city champions with 40 wins and 1 loss.
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I haven't chosen my victims yet, but I ain't picking 16 of them. That's just too many.
16 Thingies
I was tagged by wonderful, talented, and just plain scrumptious dr_nik to post 16 things about me.
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01. I can't tell you the name of one single person in my High School graduating class. I went to three different High Schools.
02. I started riding motorcycles when I was 11.
03. When I was 7 I climbed up on top of a house and my mom and her friend saw me walking on the roof thru a skylight. My mom pulled a branch off a Weeping Willow tree and lashed my legs until blood was just pouring down and my socks were soaked. It was summer and I was wearing shorts.
04. I took a class in Nuclear Cosmochemistry and was the only undergraduate to make an "A" (and only one grad student got an "A" too). The professor hired me to do research in his group and I authored or co-authored around 10 scientific papers. I've done 14 papers total, and they all put me to sleep.
05. Someday I want to have a bison ranch.
06. In elementary school I found I would throw up if I tasted mayonnaise. I used it when I really wanted to get out of school, and nobody ever caught on.
07. In film school I won an award for a B&W experimental short I did in Super-8 Reversal.
08. I once got a parasite from eating at a McDonalds. For a week if I so much as drank water I coughed up blood. I thought I was going to die. I went from 125 lbs (56.7 kg) to about 109 lbs (49.5 kg). This morning I weighed 193 lbs (87.5). I haven't eaten McDonalds in over 20 years.
09. I once set a house on fire by accident, and I had to go apologize to the owners.
10. I sometimes have very vivid dreams that come true, and I have witnesses because these dreams have a certain "flavor" to them so I started telling other people when I had one. I don't think I can see the future, I think my subconcious is very good at extrapolating data. I've also solved Calculus problems in my sleep I couldn't solve otherwise.
11. I've seen 13 tornadoes. In the early 1970s in Nashville I looked straight up the funnel of one as it hopped over our car. The car was rocking side to side and I looked on the up swing.
12. One year I went to a ranch were I would go fishing and riding horses. They had captured a grizzly and the mate would come down the mountain at night madder than Hell. They told us to be extra careful because it might come near the cabins. One day I was trout fishing way upstream, and I found a place were I could put my back against a dirt embankment so I wouldn't have to worry about something coming up behind me. I let my line go downstream and after a while there was this really loud roar right in my ear. I took off running down the icy cold stream, getting tangled in my line, and when I turned around a hummingbird had flown so close to my ear that its wings sounded like this roar.
13. I haven't been kissed in over 2 years.
14. I was thrown out of college for one year.
15. I've worked with two people that were embezzling at the time, and I helped catch one of them.
16. The physically largest trophy I got as a kid was for memorizing the most bible verses in one year. It's even bigger than the trophy I got because my Little League team was city champions with 40 wins and 1 loss.
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I haven't chosen my victims yet, but I ain't picking 16 of them. That's just too many.