Three things

[klwilliams]

Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.
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1. Saw an elephant in Rwanda.

2. Had dinner with a man (Josef Brodsky) who became the Poet Laureate of the United States and won the Nobel Prize.

3. Attended the Milford professional science fiction writing seminar in Wales.

Duh, I forgot that I added all those Milford people *after* I went. :-)

New 3. Helped a turtle bury her newly laid egg in a nest.

Comments

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Wow. I can't decide which of those I'm more jealous of!

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Each one that nobody else has done or the collection of all three?

I've certainly done #3 - it's where I net you! - and whilst none of them became poet laureate of the US I have eaten with a couple of eventual (physics) Nobel winners...

Not seen any elephants in Rwanda though :-)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I know for #3 -- I was thinking locals, because that's who had been posting the meme. Hey, *I'm* not the astrophysicist.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Well, I did 3 with you, but...
Let me think about this:
1) Handled the Thames scramaseaxe (9th century sword recovered from the River Thames).
2) Eaten at the high table of St Catherine's College, Cambridge (England)
3) Stood under a glacier melt waterfall in a hanging valley in the French Alps.

[vincam.livejournal.com]

3. Attended the Milford professional science fiction writing seminar in Wales.

Got you there. I went in '05. Isn't Trigonos gorgeous? Let the remorse begin.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

You do such interesting things, because you take advantage of being you and being alive-O!

:)

Love, C.

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

I've eaten in the same room with Josef Brodsky, at a reception at the College. Does that count?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I've eaten in the same room with Josef Brodsky, at a reception at the College. Does that count?

Nope. I actually had dinner with him, along with my roommate (who was taking his poetry class). He was very witty and charming, as you'd expect, and much taken with puns. I didn't appreciate the experience as much as I should have, though, just as I didn't appreciate so many of the opportunities I had at MHC.

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

Cool!

I'm not surprised that a poet would like playing with words! How did you end up at this dinner?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

It was Gracious night at Brigham*. (As you know, Bob, one of the traditions at Mount Holyoke when I was there was "Gracious", or Gracious Dining, held once a month in the dorms, each of which had its own dining room where we were served (with waitresses) dinner each night. For Gracious we were supposed to dress up nicely for dinner, and we could invite professors and their families to dine with us.) My roommate was a poet herself and was taking Brodsky's poetry class (one I really wish I had taken), so she invited him to dinner, and I as her roommate sat with them.

The next year a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Peter Viereck, came a few times to have Sunday brunch with me. I suspect this was largely because he liked getting a free MHC brunch, which are lavish and delicious, but also because he liked discussing science fiction with me. He liked Peter K. Dick, and I was one of the few people he knew who had read Dick.

*Brigham was the name of my dorm my sophomore year.

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

Didn't they still have waitresses on a daily basis when you were here? I'm glad it's no longer the poor students waiting on the rich students.

They've eliminated the in-dorm dining entirely now, which is a shame, because I thought it helped build community. Jo-Jo has stripped MHC of a lot of the community-building aspects that made MHC so special. It's turning into just another small liberal arts college, except that it's in a nothing town and there are no male students (except a few transgendered people and 5-College students).

BTW, your Pulitzer Prize winner was famous for stuffing his pockets full of food to spirit home from receptions. I didn't know he liked SF.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's too bad about the dining rooms. We didn't have sororities because the dorms were supposed to fill that niche for us.

Yes, we all thought the Pulitzer Prize winner looked and acted like someone's homeless grandfather.

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, pretty much.

A townie I know thought that one of the more esteemed current faculty members was a homeless guy, and her jaw dropped when I told her the correct name. If you email privately I'll tell you who, and you will laugh.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

The 3 I can think of easily are illegal.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have some I would never tell, too.

Awwwww!

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

Turtle!!!
Cute!

Re: Awwwww!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I bet you can tell me this: how long does it take for a box turtle egg to hatch (if it's going to)? Mine are land turtles.