I woke up at 5am in the morning and was listening to B&S. The theme of their thursday chatroom was "You tried it once, and only once". The viewers called in with experiences of their paragliding, getting pregnant after unprotected sex, and doing mudwrestling, jello-wrestling, and tattoed eyeliner, etc. So I decided to make up my own list.So here goes:
1. Oatmeal: the blandest substance on the planet that is so vile when mixed with water.
2. Marmite: Enough said.
3. Overnight stalking: I sat in the park outside someone's apartment in the Chicago Gold Coast in the summer rain all night after being dumped, hoping to win them over by the sheer romantic gesture. In the morning, I was still dumped, and wet enough to catch a cold.
4. Impulsive love gesture: I met someone online, then took the 5 hour train-bus combo from NY to NJ to surprise them the next weekend, and almost got caught in the middle of an extramarital dispute, and had to wait 2 hours for the next NJ bus.
5. Reiki: I took two courses in Reiki, and it made me feel better for, like, two days, and then my neck pain returned.
6. Vacationing with non-English speakers: Four days of 80% French, 20% English. Whoever claimed French is a romance language obviously haven't been in my shoes.
7. Sun-tan: I was peeling for five days. I never believed that I get sunburn until that fateful 3 hours in Cox's Bazar in 2005.
8. Roller-coaster: Not the one to try when you have motion sickness
9. Long haul drive in a $300 car with blinkers on: I moved to Chicago from NY in my $300 1982 Ford Mustang which could only go up to 65 mph. In a highway where minimum speed is 65. After crossing Ohio-Indiana border, when it started to rain, I realized that the windshield wipers don't work. I had to manually wipe the windshield with a rag while driving in the highway.
10. Get a pet: my college buddy rebecca miller went on winter holiday for three weeks, and left her cat in my possession. The cat was bored being stuck inside my dorm room with snow outside. She pee'd on my bed when I was out, scratched my feet at night every night when I was trying to sleep after an exhausting work schedule, and there were times when felicide wasn't too far from my mind.
OK, that was fun. And that reminds me of another list of things I'd do all over again. But maybe that's another entry.
