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magid(That may or may not be unique among whoever is reading this. Given the lists I've seen already, I doubt it.)
1. Deported from an African country
2. Kissed an Israeli cab driver
3. Carried a gas mask for the duration of the Gulf War (v.1)
4. Hiked through a mine field
5. Starred in a movie by and for the fifth grade.
6. Crocheted more than 150 kippot (I stopped keeping track...)
7.Was stopped at customs on suspicion of drug smuggling Dressed up as Super Mun for Purim
8. Carried a three-month-old baby down Mt. Monadnock
9. Won a prize in Ottoman studies
10a. Saw Rocky Horror for the first time at a synagogue
10b. Performed in the floor show... at Brandeis
10c. Saw the last performance of the live show in London
And a couple of things that might've been unique except I know Teddywolf has done them:
11. Walked up all the steps inside the Statue of Liberty, during an August heat wave
12. Played around the foundation of the house my father was building
1. Deported from an African country
2. Kissed an Israeli cab driver
3. Carried a gas mask for the duration of the Gulf War (v.1)
4. Hiked through a mine field
5. Starred in a movie by and for the fifth grade.
6. Crocheted more than 150 kippot (I stopped keeping track...)
7.
8. Carried a three-month-old baby down Mt. Monadnock
9. Won a prize in Ottoman studies
10a. Saw Rocky Horror for the first time at a synagogue
10b. Performed in the floor show... at Brandeis
10c. Saw the last performance of the live show in London
And a couple of things that might've been unique except I know Teddywolf has done them:
11. Walked up all the steps inside the Statue of Liberty, during an August heat wave
12. Played around the foundation of the house my father was building
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:21 am (UTC)Turkey conjures up a bunch of different associations for me: Ottomans, Seljuks, Byzantium, eastern Orthodoxy, secular Islam (And why should it be unique there? But it is.), Hagia Sophia, and horrible bus accidents.
I enjoyed the class, but it wasn't quite as compelling as the Russian history or medieval history classes I took. Which is to say I had a lot of really good history classes.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:25 am (UTC)Ive been stopped at customs on suspicion of drug smuggling... hasnt everyone?
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:29 am (UTC)Our resident medivalist was also an old fuddy-duddy. I almost decided to not take any history classes at all after suffering through an ILS with another history prof. (Thankfully I changed my mind and also had an advisor who was excellent and knew which professors would be good for me and which wouldn't. Which is why I never took Chinese history, even though I really wanted to.)
There were some lovely history professors around. They were just in the minority. (Or taught American Studies, which I avoided like the plague, because yeah, what I really needed was MORE AMERICAN HISTORY after 12 years in the public school system. (Um. Only I guess it was 7 years in the public school system for me, but whatever.)) So I took classes with visiting professors or took classes off-campus.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:39 am (UTC)I was lucky; our resident medievalist was not a fuddy-duddy. More of a lecturer about what happened than a teacher of how to 'do' history, but really good. In fact, I went to a class of his as a pre-frosh, and it was one of the reasons I chose how I did. How could I resist a class where students came early to write up soap-opera-like questions, "The Edge of Knight", on the board? :-)
I also avoided American history, for exactly the same reasons. And we'd never gotten into the 20th century in any of those years in public school (I'm still fuzzy about Korea and Vietnam). In fact, the only reason I ended up a history major was because second semester senior year in high school I had seventh period lunch, at the end of the day. I never ate lunch then (easier just to wait and eat something nice at home), and they made us sign in, which sucked. So I went searching for a seventh class, found a European history class, and realized for the first time that I did enjoy history after all.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:42 am (UTC)At a synagogue? Boggle.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:43 am (UTC)Not something I'm planning to repeat, either.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:44 am (UTC)I had a religion professor who was hoping to one day teach a class on religious influences on Star Trek. (Different races modeled on different religions; many of the OS ship names were Arabic...) It's a shame I graduated without getting to see that.
*scratches head* There was something about Korea and Vietnam? Huh. Who knew?
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:45 am (UTC)*grin*
Yeah, I thought it strange, too. Youth group event. I don't know if it makes any difference for your bogglage that it was held in the rec room of an absolutely enormous Reform synagogue, the kind of building that takes up a small block on its own.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-23 07:47 am (UTC)SO not my fault.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:48 am (UTC)this started the giggles for me!
oh, and...I wanted to ask you.
Is there any lil thing you'd like to use as an icon? I'd be more than happy to make one for you!
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-23 07:52 am (UTC)Religious influences on Star Trek? Sounds like a great class. Or panel at a con.
Yeah, stuff happened in the far east that they might've taught us about because we were finally involved there.
It still annoys me how Amero-Euro-centric a lot of history is. Asia doesn't appear until Europeans go there, and Africa's only colonies, if at all...)
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:57 am (UTC)Icons... If I did want to use one, I think Queue has a number of photos he'd iconize for me :-).
I like the idea of icons, but it doesn't work for me, quite. Part of it is that I'm always looking forward ("So if I max out the icons, then replace X with Y, that means that all those old uses of X will change to Y, which isn't necessarily appropriate..."). Part of it is that I've found icons to have a subtext that's frequently unclear for me. I mean, it's obvious when someone has a smiling picture of zirself for a happy post, but images are so open to interpretation, and I've more than once found myself asumming I understood what the icon choice meant when it was intended wholly differently.
Which is not to say I'll never use an icon, but I'm not ready for one now. I'll definitely remember to ask you when/if I change my mind, though :-).
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:58 am (UTC)I was just googling for my old prof (he was pretty durned cool) and wow, nice website for a professor. There are these great Pakistani art trucks (http://www.amherst.edu/~jjelias/truck_site/trucks.html) that he's studying. I'm cranky that I never made it to his exhibit - I remember
He also taught the one class I ever took (in college - HS physics doesn't count ;) that truly made my head hurt. In that intellectual way.
Now Anthropology... that's something I needed to discover before second semester senior year. That's what I should have been majoring in.