As I compile this list, Less Than Jake are singing:
Well, I'm half awake and half a world away
All my past mistakes and every misspent day
I wouldn't have it any other way . . .
Thank you for the editorial soundtrack. I suspect I have a much less interesting ten-things list than most of the people I've been reading over the last few days, as this meme makes its pandemic way across the internet, but all the same I have . . .
1) Been paid in Irish whiskey for storytelling.
2) Been invited up onstage while attending a one-man Gershwin show in Boston and sung "Someone To Watch Over Me" accidentally an octave above written before being corrected.
3) Learned the first five lines of the Odyssey by heart, in Greek, before I could read the language.
4) Won several state awards for archery, both indoors and outdoors, and during those years doubled as the regular performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening of competitions.
5) Extemporized hexametrical fanfic in the presence of the author.
6) Done a voice-over for a Girl Scouts commercial. (I was in elementary school! I plead the ignorance of youth!)
7) Thrown out my back dancing with a Torah.
8) Jointly driven a stick-shift car in Italy with a fellow classicist (he steered, I shifted), stalled it out on a hilly street in Bacoli, and had to be rescued by a passing stranger on a motorcyle.
9) Recited Akkadian epic at a science fiction and fantasy panel in which I was not scheduled to participate.
10) Fallen out of a palm tree onto a deck chair.
Well, I'm half awake and half a world away
All my past mistakes and every misspent day
I wouldn't have it any other way . . .
Thank you for the editorial soundtrack. I suspect I have a much less interesting ten-things list than most of the people I've been reading over the last few days, as this meme makes its pandemic way across the internet, but all the same I have . . .
1) Been paid in Irish whiskey for storytelling.
2) Been invited up onstage while attending a one-man Gershwin show in Boston and sung "Someone To Watch Over Me" accidentally an octave above written before being corrected.
3) Learned the first five lines of the Odyssey by heart, in Greek, before I could read the language.
4) Won several state awards for archery, both indoors and outdoors, and during those years doubled as the regular performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening of competitions.
5) Extemporized hexametrical fanfic in the presence of the author.
6) Done a voice-over for a Girl Scouts commercial. (I was in elementary school! I plead the ignorance of youth!)
7) Thrown out my back dancing with a Torah.
8) Jointly driven a stick-shift car in Italy with a fellow classicist (he steered, I shifted), stalled it out on a hilly street in Bacoli, and had to be rescued by a passing stranger on a motorcyle.
9) Recited Akkadian epic at a science fiction and fantasy panel in which I was not scheduled to participate.
10) Fallen out of a palm tree onto a deck chair.
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