Ten Things Meme

[estepheia]

1. Breastfed my daughter while wearing my Left Guard football kit during a match against the Hannover Stampeders.
2. Had one of my poems plastered all over the advertising pillars of my hometown - I was 14 at the time and our literary circle had been given civic funding...
3. Flew all the way to Scotland to go to two small club gigs by Fish (ex-lead singer of Marillion) - I even made a pilgrimage to Fish's house. I wouldn't have rang the bell if one of his neighbors hadn't talked me into it. So, I even got a nice autograph. Later, just before the actual concerts, Fish recognized me again and asked me to join him at his table in the pub. A year later during an open air concert in Germany, we bumped into each other at a drinks vendor - and he recognized me and made smalltalk.
4. Woke up to find a burglar less than six feet away, going through my desk drawers. I jumped out of bed in a rage, alas, he got away.
5. Jumped out of a plane - ok, so I had a parachute.
6. Ate the best freshly baked bread of my life in a small restaurant in a little place just off Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia.
7. Broke my wrist the one and only time that I went ice-skating.
8. Smuggled a whole bag full of books into the GDR - and out again. Back then it was forbidden to bring any kind of print media into East Germany. I was 14, I think, and I told my grandma I would not set foot into that country without a few books to read (I used to read about 2 books every day). I packed a bag full of library books, stuff like Alistair McLean and other thrillers. My gran who I was traveling with was really frightened that our train compartment would be searched by the border police or that one of the audibly east German ladies on our train would turn out to be an informant. She saw us dragged off the train, questioned and sent back, with the books confiscated. Not a completely unfounded fear. Yet I was lucky, the books were never found and I was able to return them to the library.
9. Saw Anthony Hopkins live on stage in London in a play called Pravda and Tom Hulce in a play about AIDS.
10. Spotted a young bloke who stood on a branch in the tree outside my hall-of-residence window. His pants were down and he was happily jerking off.

Comments

[meko00.livejournal.com]

Ok, now I'm scared. :-)

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

I like no. 10!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

I was very amused at the time. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture. I told the other girls in the hall of residence and they freaked, barricaded the door and called the police....

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

I hope he didn't get caught because you grassed!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

I never found out if there were repercussions. Personally I am wondering if he and the burglar weren't one and the same guy. It's possible.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Like, you had a stalker?

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Nuh, it was more a case of him stalking both the hall of residence and a nearby place where lots of nurses-in-training lived.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

9. Well, I saw Pravda in it's presentation at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. I'm sure Tony wasn't in it. Oh, and I saw Tom Hulce in the movie Slamdance, which was this obscure thing. What? That doesn't count?

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

"Woke up to find a burglar less than six feet away, going through my desk drawers. I jumped out of bed in a rage, alas, he got away."

If only he had a chance to read "Lucky", he'd know just how lucky he was......

[marcee12.livejournal.com]

I want to hear more about the robbery!
What happened? What'd he take? Where was this? Was he armed? Were you terrified?
That's insane!!!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Well, I only had one room in that hall of residence. Ground floor. On the campus. The place was surrounded by a huge fence, it was a girls only hall. I woke up one morning, at the crack of dawn, and there's this dark youth in my room, going through my drawers. I had left the window open, many of us did, because you don't expect people to climb in when you're sleeping, do you?

So I sat up in my bed, and he saw me and he headed for the window and jumped out. I was too slow. But I yelled "Fuck off" after him.

He took a necklace with a pendant that I was very fond of, my bank cards and a bit of cash. Not much. But it was a nuisance. *sigh*

[ketzel.livejournal.com]

1. is my favourite :)

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Mine too.
I have a photograph somewhere...

[ketzel.livejournal.com]

I would love to see that :)
As for your list: I've seen an exhibitionist too, twice. Once I was too little to understand, I thought he was taking a piss ... the secnd time was actually in front of my door. I was expecting a friend and opened without checking first, and there was naked Jörg - Frankfurt's well known exhibitionist-psycho - standing, naked of course, jerking off. I threw the door shut and yelled "Sie Sau Sie!". Hehe. Nichts geht über gute Erziehung, immer schön sietzen ... I checked later if there was anything on my door, yuck. It wasn't. He phoned later to apologize and asked wether or not he was "really naked". That's his thing. One day I'll write an article about him.

And I flew all the way to Chicago just to see Kane (Christian Kane's band), but there was no personal contact. What a shame.

[rubywisp.livejournal.com]

I <3 your list. All of it!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *beams*
I am not so sure if stalking a singer is such a bright spot on my record, but Fish took it with grace, so I guess it's not a dark ugly smirch either.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Left Guard football kit

I hope this is "proper" football, not American...If so, go you! Hail, player of the beautiful game! Who needs their knees anyway?!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

American football. :-)
I played Offense Line. I stood next to the center.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Is that hard on the knees as well?

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

It was hard on my ankles.
And I once received a hit that gave me a painful chest trauma. But it's fun. If I hadn't gotten pregnant I would have started fullback training. That would have been cool.

I was way too old really to start playing football. I was 30 when I started training with no real history in sports, unfit as hell, but it was fun.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Good for you.
I didn't get the chance to play soccer until I was 40!

[luvs-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I did 5! How could I forget?

LOL

Youth is so wasted on the young.

[makd.livejournal.com]

#4 and # 10 - creepy experiences.