I have:
- laid concrete
- put in sprinker systems
- built fences
- installed sinks
- hung doors(I'd rather put in sinks)
- hiked 28+ miles over the weekend with a 40 lb pack in 110 degree weather
- been rescued by a cowboy
- saved children from drowning on two occasions
- made many of my own clothes
- danced with people from all over the world (Swedish, Japanese, Canadian, Russian, Spanish, French, English, Greek, Italian, African, Indian, ...)
- climbed down the side of a 80-foot cliff although I am terrified of heights
- lived in a spider-infested cabin because I like astronomy that much
- seen the southern cross
- done english and western riding
- earned my junior yeomans patch
- sang for a weezer cover band
- been snorkeling in Antigua and O'ahu
- swam in the North Sea
- swam in the Pacific
- swam in the Atlantic
- sat in a car in the middle of nowhere, at midnight, just to watch a couple thunderstorms
- climbed the trees on campus
- broken my nose
- broken my arm
- broken my tailbone
- run a mile in under 5 minutes
- backpacked and bouldered by moonlight
- learned to canoe
- learned to tie knots
- sailed 20, 22, and 16 foot catamarans, and a p-cat
- sailed lasers, sailed a 22 foot sloop (as part of a team, obviously)
- won a halloween costume contest
- fed llamas
- seen shooting stars
- failed a test
- gotten perfect scores
- seen a solar eclipse
- seen a lunar eclipse
- grown plants
- grown fish
- done yoga
- practiced yongmudo (hankido)
- quit jobs
- worked a 14 hour night
- played in our own hick-type slip'n'slide -an empty artificial lake
- studied and done school work for 36 hours at a stretch
- been in mud fights
- played in the sprinklers at 2 in the morning
- played with fireworks
- had my back seize up
- danced for 16 hours one night
- eaten wasabi straight, and liked it
- built rube-goldberg devices with over 120 action transfers
- been inside the Advanced Light Source particle accelerator
- rolled down hills
- been above 13,000 ft.
- climbed around lava flows in the middle of the night
- made creme brulee
- gotten my Open Water Diver PADI Certification
- been "overqualified"
- gotten my B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
- been through extensive medical treatments
- learned to play the ukulele and the guitar
- ridden a pony in the ocean
- navigated a foreign city using only Spanish (no phone, no
dictionary)
- played with an octopus
- learned to make gluten-free foods