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

[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.