donnunn.com: 200 questions

New location: This page now maintained here: http://www.donnunn.com/spiel/200_questions.html.

I was going to try to track the path of sites through which I saw this series of questions, but it got to be too big after only a couple clicks. Suffice it to say I saw it first at Chasing Daisy. Go visit her site, because she’s funny and I like her, and then you can backtrack it from there.

In the list below, I’ve done the things in boldface. I’m not including details—if you want ’em, leave a comment.

Bought everyone in the pub a drink
Swam with wild dolphins
Climbed a mountain
Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
Been inside the Great Pyramid
Held a tarantula
Taken a candlelight bath with someone
Said “I love you” and meant it
Hugged a tree
Done a striptease
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Stayed up all night long and watched the sun rise
Seen the Northern Lights
Gone to a huge sports game
Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
Grown and eaten my own vegetables
Touched an iceberg
Slept under the stars
Changed a baby’s diaper
Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
Watched a meteor shower
Gotten drunk on champagne
Given more than I can afford to charity
Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
Had a food fight
Bet on a winning horse
Taken a sick day when I’m not ill
Asked out a stranger
Had a snowball fight
Photocopied my bottom on the office photocopier
Screamed as loudly as I possibly can
Held a lamb
Enacted a favourite fantasy
Taken a midnight skinny dip
Taken an ice-cold bath
Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
Seen a total eclipse
Ridden a roller coaster
Hit a home run
Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
Adopted an accent for an entire day
Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
Actually felt happy about my life, even for just a moment
Had two hard drives for my computer
Visited all 50 states
Loved my job for all accounts
Taken care of someone who was shit-faced
Had enough money to be truly satisfied
Had amazing friends
Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
Watched wild whales
Stolen a sign
Backpacked in Europe
Taken a road trip
Gone rock climbing
Lied to a foreign government official in that country to avoid notice
Taken a midnight walk on the beach
Skydived
Visited Ireland
Been heartbroken longer than I was actually in love
In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
Visited Japan
Bench-pressed my own weight
Milked a cow
Alphabetized my records
Pretended to be a superhero
Sung karaoke
Lounged around in bed all day
Posed nude in front of strangers
Gone scuba diving
Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
Kissed in the rain
Played in the mud
Played in the rain
Gone to a drive-in theater
Done something I should regret, but don’t regret it
Visited the Great Wall of China
Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about my blog has discovered it
Dropped Windows in favor of something better
Started a business
Fallen in love and not had my heart broken
Toured ancient sites
Taken a martial arts class
Swordfought for the honor of a woman
Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
Gotten married
Been in a movie
Crashed a party
Loved someone I shouldn’t have
Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
Gotten divorced
Had sex at the office
Gone without food for 5 days
Made cookies from scratch
Won first prize in a costume contest
Ridden a gondola in Venice
Gotten a tattoo
Found that the texture of some materials can turn me on
Rafted the Snake River
Been on television news programs as an “expert”
Got flowers for no reason
Masturbated in a public place
Got so drunk I don’t remember anything
Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
Performed on stage
Been to Las Vegas
Recorded music
Eaten shark
Had a one-night stand
Gone to Thailand
Seen Siouxsie live
Bought a house
Been in a combat zone
Buried one/both of my parents
Shaved or waxed my pubic hair off
Been on a cruise ship
Spoken more than one language fluently
Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
Bounced a cheque
Performed in Rocky Horror
Read—and understood—my credit report
Raised children
Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy
Followed my favorite band/singer on tour
Created and named my own constellation of stars
Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
Found out something significant that my ancestors did
Called or written my Congressman/Member of Parliament
Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
—More than once? —More than thrice?
Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when I knew someone was looking
Had an abortion or my female partner did
Had plastic surgery
Survived an accident I shouldn’t have survived
Written articles for a large publication
Lost over 100 pounds
Held someone while they were having a flashback
Piloted an airplane
Petted a stingray
Broken someone’s heart
Helped an animal give birth
Been fired or laid off from a job
Won money on a TV game show
Broken a bone
Killed a human being
Gone on an African photo safari
Ridden a motorcycle
Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
Had a body part below the neck pierced
Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
Ridden a horse
Had major surgery
Had sex on a moving train
Had a snake as a pet
Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
Visited all 7 continents
Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
Eaten kangaroo meat
Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
Been a sperm or egg donor
Eaten sushi
Had my picture in the newspaper
Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in my lifetime
Changed someone’s mind about something I care deeply about
Gotten someone fired for their actions
Gone back to school (Haven’t done this quite yet; on hold after recent move to Seattle area)
Parasailed
Changed my name
Petted a cockroach
Eaten fried green tomatoes
Read The Iliad
Selected one “important” author I missed in school and read his/her work
Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because my apartment needed them
—and gotten 86ed from the restaurant because I did it so many times, they figured out it was me
Taught myself an art from scratch
Killed and prepared an animal for eating
Apologised to someone years after inflicting the hurt
Skipped all my school reunions
Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
Been elected to public office
Written my own computer language
Thought to myself that I was living my dream
Had to put someone I love into hospice care
Built my own PC from parts
Sold my own artwork to someone who didn’t know me
Had a booth at a street fair
Dyed my hair
Been a DJ
Found out someone was going to dump me via LiveJournal
Written my own role-playing game
Been arrested

Comments

Okay, petted a stingray and a tarantula, that's fine. But a cockroach? *gulp*

Have you worked in a zoo?

Posted by: Daisy | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 02:32

It might be my setup but it's much easier to visit you now that the popup wanting to install software has disappeared - have you removed it or should I just chalk up another plus point for Firefox?

p.s. thank you for the compliment :-0)

Posted by: Daisy | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 02:34

I haven't worked in a zoo, but I have been to zoos and museums that have bug-petting areas. The cockroaches are usually the evile Bugs! From! Space! variety, several inches long and looking like they might rear up and bite your head off at any moment.

When I was in elementary school, we had a field day at the Utah Museum of Natural History and got to see and touch a hissing cockroach. If those things aren't the physical embodiment of all that's wrong with the world... blargh!

Posted by: Don | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 09:16