Ten things I’ve done in my life which I don’t think most of you have: (stolen from everyone)

[acroyear]

(doing this during the long-compile process when i muck around with the server code...)

1. spent 7 days on an aircraft carrier (the Constellation) on the "tiger cruise"
2. sang "what do you do with a drunken sailor" as my musical show-and-tell when I was 6 years old
3. saw the Roger Waters Radio KAOS show
4. danced on stage(s) at the Kennedy Center (twice)
5. danced on stage at the Birchmere (twice)
6. went on a road trip that intentionally hit all 13 original colonies (ok, my brother did that one too, though he was only 5 and likely barely remembers it)
   
7. went on a 3 week scottish (and cape breton) dancing vacation
8. built a web event-calendar system from scratch
9. memorized the titles of every Doonesbury book published
10. intentionally went through nose and lip surgery 15 times (so far)

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[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

15??

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

born with a cleft lip (intact palatte, fortunately). a lot of work reassembling the lip with some cosmetic features and fixing the nose bridge.

i'll need one more sometime in the next 10 years as my nose grows assymetrically. if i don't do something about it i'll look like a picasso painting.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Wow. were mst of them when you were young?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

2 months, then ages 2, 4,5,7,9,10,11,14,15 plus minor repair work.

the worst part about it all is that my records were lost by the navy in the move from florida to here, so most of what we know is strictly from my and mom's memory.

the teenage years were mostly the nose work.

[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

Woah, really? I never would have guessed. You've faired *very* well...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

its one reason i keep the mustache/beard. hides a lot, including the main scars (from the one time the stitches didn't hold).

i know others don't see it, but its still there, inescapably, to my eyes...

[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

I hear ya there. We see ourselves through microscopes for certain. I hope it helps a little that others don't see it at all, even now you've pointed it out.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

if i don't do something about it i'll look like a picasso painting

"Andalusian Dog, With Melting Clocks and Man Dancing With Bells On His Ankles."

Yep -- sounds pretty goddamn surreal to me...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

should i name my band that?

nah...

[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

2.) Didn't do it myself, but my kid sang it in *her* kindergarten class...I got a call from the teach after that one.
4.) Sang there...not exactly the same, but it's cool to know others have had that experience as well.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

my mom got "the call". teacher, mind you, wasn't sure if she should give me 3 more verses first...

[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

:::snickers!!::: Good teacher!

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Silly thing about that is that I distinctly remember learning a version of that song in elementary school. Yeah, it was 4th or 5th grade (because I *know* it was the public school I went to), but it was in the 'text book' and everything. Donkey Riding as well... but a rather different version than the one you guys sing :-)