Question of the Day: Tues. July 6 2010

Good morning folks.....

Todays question is: What would you consider to be the most interesting "thing" you have done in your life? Now this could be somewhere you have gone, something you have done, or something you have saw and been a part of.

Unless I can remember something else, I guess it would be helping to excavate shark fossils for the Field Museum (Chicago). The leading authority (at the time) was working in a neighboring county.

Going to college as a non-traditional (meaning "older") student. At the same time I was working a seven-day swing-shift full time, I became a part time college student, majoring in Geography with a concentration in Environmental Planning. It was interesting, it was fun, and it was an incredible amount of hard work. There were a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of studying, and a great deal of writing.

The other students were very nice to me, considering they were a good 20 years younger than me at the time. I was lucky enough to attend college with my best friend, so we were able to study together and hang out together between classes. And believe me, I could have never gotten through chemistry without him. He helped me with my chem classes and I proofread his papers.

My DH and DS were super throughout the entire time. There were days when I'd leave work at 7:00 a.m., drive over to school for classes for the whole day, get home around 4:00 in the afternoon, and flop into bed for sleep. Then I'd get back out of bed at 9:00 at night to get ready to go back into work at 11:00. They cooked, they cleaned, they did everything. I give them full credit because, believe me, had it not been for their help, I couldn't have done it.

I was lucky enough to get an internship to work in a state office. What an experience! I was able to attend legislative breakfasts and other meetings. I walked over to the capitol building every morning for coffee with other interns. The internship lasted a full semester and I had to complete a project. Can you imagine how scared I was when my project was selected to be presented at a geographer's seminar? I was petrified!

It took me almost ten years to get through college, because I was going to work full time at the same time. And I graduated with honors when I was 44 years old. I was also the Student of the Year in my geography department. And yes, I'm proud of those achievements.

I'd say the most interesting thing I've done is help release some baby turtles into the ocean

Most everything I've seen that's been unusual or interesting has been related to my job in surgery. Back in the '80's, when I first became a surgical tech, we had a patient who had SITUS INVESUS. Of course, I was too new to surgery to truly appreciate the rarity. Incidentally, that person was an identical twin (which is more common, I believe.) I wish I could see another person with this condition. It would be just the coolest thing to see now that I'm intimately familiar with the placement of internal organs, lol!

Hmmmm. Interesting question - and very interesting answers!

I think, for me, it was performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. 4 times. And the way we performed was taking our production of Macbeth through the streets of the old city, using the city as our set. We started out in a graveyard, where the witches appear to Macbeth (I was one of the witches), then we'd take the audience on a journey, stopping in courtyards for each consecutive scene.

Full costume, in Edinburgh in August, which is teeming with artistic ventures, plus I love Scotland so much, so I got to explore as well as doing what I do, which is acting!

Fun stuff.

I would probably say my 3 day bus trip from one side of Canada to the other. Not exactly pleasant but there were some "interesting" characters along the way.

Oh, easy - the time I spent working for a vet to get a reduction on bills. I spent several years working with him on a part time basis, and learned loads. He is one of the best lameness vets in Western Canada and also is very good with small animals. He also introduced me to the thrill of chuckwagon racing and took me for a training run in a wagon.........WOW!!! the adrenalin rush was amazing.

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

Most everything I've seen that's been unusual or interesting has been related to my job in surgery. Back in the '80's, when I first became a surgical tech, we had a patient who had SITUS INVESUS. Of course, I was too new to surgery to truly appreciate the rarity. Incidentally, that person was an identical twin (which is more common, I believe.) I wish I could see another person with this condition. It would be just the coolest thing to see now that I'm intimately familiar with the placement of internal organs, lol!

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My husband has this condition which was not diagnosed until about 15 years ago. He has such a strong heart beat that it was never questioned when the doctors listened to his heart. Our doctor found it out during a routine chest xray and had the tech's do the xray again and to mark it on the film which was left and right. He asked my husband if he would like to go out on the road with him like in a circus. He suffers from a lot of sinus issues and when he went for allergy tests the doctor told him he wasn't surprized that he has the condition as it is something that is present with these patients.

I have witnessed the birth of 3 of 4 grandchildren. I don't really remember the birth of my own so this is very special. My second grandaughter was born ceasarian so didn't see her birth.

In the 70's while married and living in San Diego, CA I was hypnotized at a show we were at. A famous hypnotist was doing a show and asked for volunteers to come on stage and be put under. I was one of those who went under and was sent back to my table. When I heard a certain word, I got back up and sang on stage, it was one of the most interesting things in my life. I do not like to stand in front of a crowd of people and here I was singing to an audience I and the others who were hypnotized had to meet the hypnotist after the show to get back to normal. It was a fun time and I will never forget it.

Probably 2 things are interesting.

Walking a turtle hatching beach overnight in Panama to protect the turtles from poachers. The only light came from the moon and the luminescant sand and surf. I was afraid that I'd step on a turtle, then was reminded that they were 300 pounds and if I came up to one without seeing it, I would most likely fall over it.

Being part of the team that deployed the first packet based network in the world. What was interesting was all the international and media interest. Wall Street Newspaper interviews, giving visitors tours from countries all over the world. The technology part was actually boring.

Finish my career as Accountand...

Growing up not on the wrong side of the tracks exactly - on the other side of the tracks is the Hudson River in Yonkers, NY - and going to an Ivy League school, Cornell.

Too hard of a question

OMG, I wouldn't even know where to begin...

The first thing that pops to mind is spending my life with Gary.

The next thing was the time I spent at a well water project in India... but then there was the education project in the village where they were working to create a script for the language of the people... or the NY Circus - which was not a circus, but a former Jesuit who founded an organization (church without walls) to help political refugees get out of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador (I worked with them for a year, lived in the safe house in NY and helped coordinate with the World Org of Churches and getting new arrivals settled... and went to Nicaragua in 1982).

I've done so many interesting things - but those have to top the list.

Nothing too interesting, but other than giving birth, lol, it'd have to be horseback riding through the smokey mountains with my husband during a trip we took as a rather belated "honeymoon"