Ten things

[jlh]

After a while, I think I came up with a few things:

1. Had Liev Schrieber bum cigs off me at an Oscar party.
2. Performed in the world premiere of a new musical play.
3. Held a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy. Still waiting for that Oscar.
4. Got a brand new address without moving.
5. Got my milk from a milkman.
6. Watched a moose walk down my street.
7. Watched a snapping turtle lay her eggs in a hole on my beach, and then watch the hatched babies scramble into the lake sometime later.
8. Walked to school across a frozen lake.
9. Stood in the middle of Times Square, in the middle of the day, with only three cars on the street.
10. Walked over the Brooklyn Bridge with no lights to guide me.

Some notes:
1. This was at the EW Oscar party a few years ago; he was in town doing Broadway and we both stayed late at the party and hung out. Nice guy.
2. It was a really bad play that was done in college. Just, horrid.
3. The Tony is in Robert Brustein's office at the ART at Harvard. The little disk spins. The Grammy was at a record label that a friend works at. It isn't as heavy as I thought it would be. The Emmy was in the apartment of a former co-worker whose spouse was an exec producer of a daytime talk show. It is very large, very heavy, and very pointy; you could kill someone with that thing.
4. My small town went from Rural Free Delivery to actual street addresses, which meant that suddenly all the streets had to be named (that's right, I grew up where the streets have no name, what?) and the houses numbered.
5. Small town. Milk had cream on top that we put in a bowl in the fridge and used to make ice cream on Sunday nights in this wooden hand-crank machine.
6. Small town in Maine.
7. Small town in Maine on a lake.
8. Small town in Maine on a lake that wasn't very wide, and the school was on the other side. During the year I had a slightly longer walk around the end of the lake.
9. September 12, 2001.
10. August 14, 2003.

Comments

[ceilidh]

I've done #4! For the same reason too. I lived on a farm and had an address that looked like Rt 2 Box 88... and then it got an actual street name and numbers and everything.

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Me too! For exactly the same reason. :)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I knew YOU had country roots, so I'm not surprised! But I am lame enough to not be able to think of many more things!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It happened when I was a teenager, and the funny thing was that some of my friends ended up living on roads named for their families because they were from old families that had lived there for hundreds of years. Though when you're 15 it's embarrassing, and I think best friend C is still embarrassed by it a little bit.

I had no idea so many folks were so rural! I was always made fun of it (kindly) by my college friends, ha-ha.

[penelope-z.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got 5. as well. Also got goat milk from a milkman as well.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Was it the same milkman? Was it here or in Greece? And could you still, or is that something that's passed?

[quasarsglow.livejournal.com]

I've had number 4 happen to me twice.

We went from Rural Rt.1 Box 33-B to 1384 Dupont Rd. then the 9-1-1 stuff happened and now we're something like 11870 Dupont Rd.

However I suppose that over the course of like 10 years, stuff like that happens, but twice?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

When we went to 911 we didn't have things change again.

But my parents moved further back into the woods and have an rfd again, so I reckon it will happen to them again soon enough.

[quasarsglow.livejournal.com]

My parents just moved.. so it's all a mess. I've had to re-learn the address and now there's a totally new one. *insert frustrated noise here

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

We had milk delivery for many years, but they increased their minimum delivery to at least one gallon a week, and we don't drink milk as a beverage, so . . . ixnay on the milkman, woe.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

That was where you are now?

We also got eggs from our neighbor.

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

Yes. There are two dairies in the Denver area that do home delivery. There was a variety of products we could buy -- all dairy products, orange juice, cheese, eggs, and cookie dough.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Re #9. It was also like that in the first week of janaury of 1996, for a very different reason.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have NO recollection of that, what was it?

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Big, big snowstorm. Closed most of the city, but as I was at the nytimes at the time, I had to go to work. It was snowy, slippery as hell, dark at noon and completely lovely. They hadn't taken down the 5th ave snowflake yet, and it was lit all day. Just beautiful.

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

Very cool about the turtles.

And so I don't forget later, here is Title of the Song (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PMQ23MY2W5YG1X671ALRSSP8X). Enjoy!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I think my fave is, "Modulation and I hold a high note" though it's all good. Thanks!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Oh, go figure. I do a little random journal-surfing through the fandom and what do I find but... a DaVinci's Notebook song. My other life as an a cappella geek just never stops following me around. ;)

Incidentally, hello... interesting list... and I could add a Cable Ace award to #3, almost, since I didn't actually pick it up. I just walked into a friend's bedroom and suddenly found myself facing my reflection in it. The award was her father's; she had it sitting around, rather randomly, since I don't think he much knew what to do with it. ;)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

How big is the Ace award?

I really am ready to see an Oscar. I feel that I am due in a few years, as the other sightings were roughly six years or so apart.

So is Da Vinci's notebook a big a capella thing?

Oh, and welcome to random surfing of my journal!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

The Ace award is probably... hmm. Maybe eight inches tall? (I'm doing all sorts of gesturing-type estimations that you obviously can't see... ahem....)

DaVinci's Notebook is currently on hiatus, sadly, but they're a good, very funny group from the D.C. area; they have several albums out and have been on TV all over the place by now. And their original material's a kick...

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

DaVinci's Notebook! <33333 I've seen them at shows a few time - hilarious! :D

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

5. Got my milk from a milkman.

I've tried this. In NZ we got our milk from a milkman.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Do you still? Milkmen are the shit, yo.

Also, NZ! Have some Neil, unless you are heartily sick of him.

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Who's Robert Brustein? I feel so uneducated.

Also, I have dreams about getting my milk from a milkman. I really just want to live on the set of the Gilmore Girls. (Even though they don't have a milkman in Stars Hollow, I feel it's only a matter of time.)

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I have the hand-cranked ice cream machine too! Every year on the fourth of July when I was little my family would make ice cream by hand and serve it on the picnic table. Growing up on a farm ruled. :)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Robert Brustein (http://www.amrep.org/people/bob.html).

Milkmen, still very popular. Does my heart good. I wish I still had that ice cream machine, but it rotted, sadly.

[sheryll.livejournal.com]

Definitely with you on #5. Had it delivered to the door as a child and went in the truck to get it for ice cream making as a teenager. Hmmm, should have added 'ridden down steep hills standing behind the cab of a pick-up truck' to my list, as that was the favoured mode of transportation when going to get cream. :)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Standing in the back of a pick up truck is like, the only way to get around a farm in the summer time. I can feel the sun on my shoulders just thinking about it.

[sheryll.livejournal.com]

I can feel the sun on my shoulders just thinking about it

*nods in total agreement*

Shame that if I'd let my daughter do it I'd probably have been charged with child endangerment or something. *sigh*