David McGill, one of the few gifted Gather News Correspondents and someone who should know better, tagged me to contribute Five Positive Things About Myself.
I just offered Five Positive Things on Sunday in response to a tag from Ina, who still owes me for this. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976999317
Fortunately, I have a few more positive things to report, two of which are true. I may write more about these (true) things in articles, because they were enormously enriching (in an emotional and moral sense) to me.
Positive Things
1. At the invitation of the program's lead teacher, I once volunteered to teach enrichment classes for the gifted students program in the local elementary school.
2. In a sleepy southern town, I once wrote two columns (on health and on books) for the local newspaper.
3. Using Astral Projection, or Courvoisier, I once discovered the secrets of the pyramids, but I have forgotten where I wrote them down (I think it was a green notebook).
4. My Drama Coach was once the understudy for an employed actor who starred in an Off-Broadway show that ran for four weeks.
5. 60% of the things I report about myself in endlessly-perpetuating games are true.
I really like courvoisier! (Bonus positive thing, which is also true.)
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I'm just warning you...I'm hormonal as hell today, so be careful what you wish for.
And once upon a time, I volunteered to teach an after schoo enrichment program, too...teaching French, of all things.
Ah, Susan, courvoisier goes with French lessons. It is worth studying French just to know how to pronounce it correctly.
Sandy, you're a coke-ingesting, apostrophe admiring, wordsmith. What could be more positive?
I am already alarmed that someone is going to guess where this is and barge in to take my favorite faux Louis Quatorze chair.
I would hate to return late tonight and find some coffee-loving gatherite plopped in my special spot.
Unfortuantely, #4 is not true - although I know and have known a few characters in the acting profession.
They promptly sent me to a very sleepy sourthern town, to develop a project there.
I was turned out in white shirt every day, and I did carry my typed articles to the newspaper office each week where I would sit on a battered desk and shoot the breeze with the long-time editor.
I expected that the posting would be something to be endured - and I was promised that, if successful, I would be given a more congenial field placement the next time.
As it turned out, I loved my time there.
When it came time to return north to a bigger and more rewarding project, I was sad to go.
And my friend, the editor, wrote an editorial farewell from the newspaper in the week I was leaving.
Thanks for accepting my request. You are very entertaining to read.
Three of the five statements are entirely true.
I discovered courvoisier first at home, but expanded my experience considerably on my own.
Dawn, what do you have against Astral Projection, you science-bound, rational traditionalist?
If the green notebook turns up, that will no longer be true, however.
A little "bubbley" goes well with many relaxing situations. (But, so did "Bubbles", if you can believe everything you read.)
I came to with a headache in the shadow of hte Pyramids.
Wizards were whispering the secrets of its construction to me as I staggered around looking for excederin.
I find that if you write things a little "over the top," the gather Smart Ass Brigade will come along and leave creative messages!
I love the concept of Astral Projection. I have had so many dreams in my life that have left me convinced upon wakening, that I had been anywhere but in my room that night.....whoa! hold on! I'm projecting again!
BRB
We never developed the theme of Astral Projection, but Ivy did begin as marvelous story about the Green Notebook containing the Secrets of the Pyramids.
No one has heard from Bubbles, either.