You May Have Thought I Was Strange Before You Read This Post

It's Friday. I'm really not supposed to be in the office today anyway, but am here to square everything away before I scuttle off for a week. So of course I've got my meme-detector set on maximum. This one has been around for a few days, but now that Mixolydian Don and the Misspent One have pitched in, I feel the time is ripe for me to do so as well. So here goes:

Ten things I’ve done that you probably haven’t:

1. Shaken hands with Neal Kinnock and been smiled at by Margaret Thatcher.

2. Joked with Fritz Hollings about drug running on Hilton Head Island.

3. Been to a wedding in Laredo, Texas with a reception following in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

4. Listened to the Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food non-stop between Columbia, SC and Roanoke, VA., a solid four hour drive. (It was the only working tape I had in the car.)

5. Argued in a law school moot court competition at 7:00 AM still drunk from a pub crawl the night before, and did quite well, thank you. (Don't ask about the second round, argued at 1:30 PM with a brutal hangover.)

6. Stood on a table in the middle of the Sweet Briar College dining hall in the middle of lunch dressed as a "love slave" and sung along to Madonna's "Like a Virgin". (A theatre tap-club initiation stunt, if you want to know. The Missus was a theatre major and I performed in a couple the school productions.)

7. Lent a cello as a center-piece to a reception for Leonard Rose and received a very nice autographed photo in return. (I played for a few years as a kid.)

8. Played Mozart's "Non Piu Andrai" on a Wiggles electric guitar.

9. Been to the floor of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

10. Given a rather brutal 1L-smartass critique of swing-vote Supreme Court Justices, unaware that Lewis Powell Jr. was standing well within earshot.