Lazy Blogger Is Lazy

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ARRL Field Day
Great American Backyard Campout
Anniversary - Monday Holiday Law
Anniversary - Stonewall Riots
Birthday - Mel Brook (actor/director/producer)
Birthday - Gilda Radner (actress/comedian)

 

Post 5 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another!(2.b., 2.c., etc...) Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

 

1. Skinny dipped in the Indian Ocean

2. Made Lewis Black laugh

3. Struck up a long-lasting friendship with an author because of one of her characters’ names

4. Watched a brain surgery from inside the OR

5. Biked the Gemini Bridges trail in Moab, Utah

 

Anyone else done that?

Comments

[dreams-cametrue.livejournal.com]

I have a very overactive shock reflex. The first time it hit me was in 8th or 9th grade, I had been in study hall and was reading a Reader's Digest magazine where they were describing a brain surgery. I was like you, doing perfectly fine and not feeling a bit squeamish when suddenly the tunnel vision began. The tunnel got longer and longer, and about that time the bell for the next class rang. When I got up the tunnel became almost infinitely long, as I was going to my next class I couldn't see anything and was stumbling down the hall bumping into people. I never went completely out (I have no idea how I managed not to) and luckily my next class was air conditioned so I was able to sit and recover. Next time it happened was about 15 years ago, I was reading a magazine on an airplane and the story was about one of the Indy car racers who had suffered severe leg injuries. The photograph of the x-ray with all the hardware did it for me, I passed right out in my airplane seat. I was still a bit shaky when I got to my layover, I ate a pizza slice and felt some better. The weird thing is that as a kid I helped a family friend who was a vetinarian and I have assisted vetinary surgery (see my own list where I stole this meme) and I never felt weak at all. Go figure...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Isn't that weird how it sort of surprises your conscious mind? And the things that set it off? I noticed that it's the sound of hyperventilation for me--I actually almost fainted while not watching Hostel, because my friends were watching it and had the sound up enough that I started breathing in time to somebody's hysterical screams. They were puzzled when I had to get up from my book and lie down on the floor with my feet on my chair.

We think it runs in the family. Dad's got some stories of his own (he's proof that you can apparently get over it), and my brother is an urban legend at our old high school for being The Reason The History Teacher No Longer Shows Those World War I Slides From The Veterans' Hospital. (He's got a really specific trigger, too, which is knowledge I may use for evil someday.) And I have one other totally unconscious incident of my own on record, but it was in reaction to pain instead.