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First thing's first.
… I thought that was, overall, pretty bloody awesome.
Dalek Khan! *loves* I mean come on, a fucking Dalek saved the universe from the Daleks, how incredibly made of win! Also, Davros did the Evil Overlord Laugh but it was actually genuinely creepy, which is rather impressive. And I did like the Ray Of Doom, and the Doctor’s face when they showed him what had happened to his companions, and omg the flashbacks to all the dead incidental characters. That was awesome.
Tosh saves the day for Ianto and Gwen, despite being dead. No such usefulness for Owen. HA HA.
JACK. Obviously. Just Jack, making filthy jokes in the most inappropriate of situations.
Kick-arse Mickey! Mickey in Torchwood! Hell yes. Although, oh god, what happened to Jake? He must have died. Seeing as that was a deleted-scenes-canon relationship...
We got to sing on the epic joyous Earth-rescue as well as the evil Dalek bits! I swear, we had no idea what that bit of music was for, it was the bit they called ‘Song of the Ood’. That made me squee. That and the companions steering the TARDIS (‘not you, Jackie, you just stand over here’ heeee) and everything.
Every time something good happened I was waiting for the other shoe to drop (I have no idea where that phrase comes from, but it’s the right one). When the Daleks were spinny and helpless, when they’d towed the Earth home, I was cringing behind my hands waiting for the tragedy. And of course, it did eventually come…
I loved the other two UNIT Osterhagen operatives. The terrified girl, and the guy who didn’t want his name on this… awesome.
I am so bored of hearing opinions on Rose that I have decided officially to not have one.
So, what happened to Donna I do have an opinion on, of course. Because I loved her and I wish she could be the companion a lot longer. But… to be honest, part of me is most pissed off not with the Doctor, but with her. Because I thought she had more sense. She was such an awesome person while she was travelling with the Doctor and it wasn’t because she was half Timelord or had this epic destiny, it was because she was a temp from Chigwell, and the more I think about the fact that she obviously wanted to have her head explode rather than go back to that, the more I hate the idea (repeated by several on my flist and occasionally even in my own head) that if you can't be superintelligent and special, you're better off dead. It is terribly sad that she doesn't remember all the brilliant things she saw and did, it is sad that taking her back to that time has reset her self-image level to 0, but really, I'm still really glad she isn't dead. Even if nobody else is.
I have a post-Journey’s End Donna fic idea which makes me feel better about the ending, but it the whole thing was obviously pretty sad.
(What, you think knowing what he now knows about Donna - and about himself and the world in general - Wilf is going to stand by watching the sky while she does a job she hates? Look at what she did in Turn Left, that wasn’t the Doctor’s influence, it wasn’t Dalek Khan’s Epic Destiny, it was Donna. She didn’t remember anything about travelling with the Doctor. She just did it because it needed to be done.)
And finally, the Christmas episode trailer. I’m sure it will be awesome, but my first thought was (well it was ooh pretty, but my second thought was) oh for fuck’s sake, Cybermen again? They’ve managed to recycle things over and over and still make it awesome, but this could be their Daleks in Manhattan.
But yes, I would like to reinforce to anyone still reading, I really loved the vast majority of this episode.
In other pop culture news, I am both win and fail.
I managed to see Rufus Wainwright in concert on Saturday - he was AMAZING and all on his own on this big stage with a grand piano and a guitar, and he made gay jokes and omg he sang Hallelujah as an encore and he did Little Sister and The Art Teacher and Gay Messiah and California and Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk and a few others I didn't know as well, and omg, he did a setting of Sonnet 20 (aka The Really Gay One) which is apparently part of a Shakespeare thing he's doing in Berlin and it was lovely.
I have not yet seen Prince Caspian, or Indy 4, or Wanted. It’s not too late for any of these things, but it’s close. I also desperately want to see The Dark Knight and Wall-E and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (hey, I’m singing in it and it’s a silly adventure with Brendan Fraser in it, it might be really entertaining) and a whole bunch of other things. And am feeling vaguely fatalistic about how made of fail I will be if I don’t go.
On the other hand, I have booked to see the Lord of the Rings musical on Wednesday, which is pretty impressively last minute as it closes next Friday. Really looking forward to it a lot, actually… it just looks so pretty.
And now, random meme. Bold the ones you've done.
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (it was a very small mountain and I hated it)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said I love you and meant it
09. Hugged a tree (I can’t remember the specifics but I’m sure I have)
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game (I went to a Crystal Palace relegation game once, and we went to Wrigley Field and watched the Cubs lose. I don’t think either of those count.)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower (last year in the Lake District)
24. Gotten drunk on champagne (but I’m a ridiculous lightweight so it was probably only one glass)
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (from outside the Library of Wales, oddly enough, while ‘helping’ cottonwoolfairy with her third year astrophysics dissertation)
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Called in sick when you were not ill (to school, many, many times)
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Cornwall, which is some of them, and a side I’m fairly proud of, although obviously it’d be more exciting if I could say I’d been to Chile)
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales (we entirely failed to see whales in San Francisco, I think it was the wrong time of year for the boats)
56. Stolen a sign from uncle sam
57. Backpacked in Europe the USA
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign governments official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your CDs or DVDs
70. Pretended to be a superhero (I’m going to qualify this with ‘as a kid’ although more recently ‘in my head’ also applies…)
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Lets Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman (no, but now I want to. Of course, I’d probably lose… but you weren’t that attached to your honour anyway, right?)
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie (We are totally counting the singing, and I’ve been on the soundtrack to three - 1408, Prince Caspian, and Journey To the Centre Of The Earth, which is incidentally out this Friday! It looks incredibly silly, but if you had a good time in the Mummy and National Treasure, which I totally did, you should go and see it because it’s got Brendan Fraser and dinosaurs.)
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made you dizzy
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest (it was more of an adorability contest, but we were Orpheus and Euridice, and it was quite funny considering it’s really hard to come up with a costume that actually gets that across. It mostly involved J holding a violin and me standing behind her the whole time.)
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything.
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug (pot counts)
109. Performed on stage or recorded music
110. Eaten shark
111. Had a one-night-stand
112. Gone to Thailand
113. Seen Siouxsie live. (I’ve seen Rufus live, and I’ve been on stage with Ray Davies. I think those things both trump Siouxsie, but I didn’t write the quiz…)
114. Bought a home
115. Been in a combat zone
116. Buried one/both of your parents
117. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
118. Been on a cruise ship
119. Spoken more than one language fluently
120. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
121. Bounced a check
122. Performed in Rocky Horror
123. Read - and understood - your credit report
124. Raised children
125. Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy (no, but I have got several favourite childhood tv shows/movies on DVD recently)
126. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
127. Created and named your own constellation of stars
128. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
129. Found out something significant that your ancestors did (My Chilean ancestors are fairly awesome, although sometimes in a crap way. My great-great-etc grandfather was the President of Chile. More recently, they fought in the Chilean war of Independence… on the side of the Spanish. More recently than that, some of them were scary Franco supporters. But back on the awesome front, they did have a family coat of arms with boats on it!)
130. Called or written your Congressperson
131. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
132. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
133. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
134. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
135. Had an abortion, or your female partner did
136. Had plastic surgery
137. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.
138. Wrote articles for a publication
139. Lost over 100 pounds
140. Held someone while they were having a flashback
141. Piloted an airplane
142. Petted a stingray
143. Broken someone's heart
144. Helped an animal give birth
145. Been fired or laid off from a job
146. Won money on a T.V. game show
147. Broken a bone
148. Killed a human being
149. Gone on an African photo safari
150. Ridden a motorcycle
151. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of 100mph or faster?
152. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
153. Fired a rifle, shotgun or pistol
154. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
155. Ridden a horse (Lizzie was the horse mad one in the family, I went along too. I didn’t mind sitting on the very very small horse while it was led around on a string, but as soon as it was just me and the horse I totally panicked, and stopped going.)
156. Had major surgery
157. Had sex on a moving train
158. Had a snake as a pet
159. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (not all the way, but we did go about a mile down it, which was plenty)
160. Slept through an entire flight
161. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
162. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
163. Visited all 7 continents
164. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
165. Eaten kangaroo meat
166. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
167. Been a sperm or egg donor
168. Eaten sushi
169. Had your picture in the newspaper
170. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
171. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
172. Gotten someone fired for their actions
173. Gone back to school
174. Parasailed
175. Changed your name legally
176. Petted a cockroach
177. Eaten fried green tomatoes
178. Read The Iliad
179. Selected one "important" author whom you missed in school, and read him/ her
180. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
181. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
182. Taught yourself an art from scratch
183. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
184. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
185. Skipped all your school reunions so far.
186. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
187. Been elected to public office
188. Written your own computer language
189. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
190. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
191. Built your own PC from parts
192. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
193. Had a booth at a street fair
194. Dyed your hair (and no one noticed)
195. Been a DJ.
196. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
197. Written your own role playing game
198. Been arrested
… I thought that was, overall, pretty bloody awesome.
Dalek Khan! *loves* I mean come on, a fucking Dalek saved the universe from the Daleks, how incredibly made of win! Also, Davros did the Evil Overlord Laugh but it was actually genuinely creepy, which is rather impressive. And I did like the Ray Of Doom, and the Doctor’s face when they showed him what had happened to his companions, and omg the flashbacks to all the dead incidental characters. That was awesome.
Tosh saves the day for Ianto and Gwen, despite being dead. No such usefulness for Owen. HA HA.
JACK. Obviously. Just Jack, making filthy jokes in the most inappropriate of situations.
Kick-arse Mickey! Mickey in Torchwood! Hell yes. Although, oh god, what happened to Jake? He must have died. Seeing as that was a deleted-scenes-canon relationship...
We got to sing on the epic joyous Earth-rescue as well as the evil Dalek bits! I swear, we had no idea what that bit of music was for, it was the bit they called ‘Song of the Ood’. That made me squee. That and the companions steering the TARDIS (‘not you, Jackie, you just stand over here’ heeee) and everything.
Every time something good happened I was waiting for the other shoe to drop (I have no idea where that phrase comes from, but it’s the right one). When the Daleks were spinny and helpless, when they’d towed the Earth home, I was cringing behind my hands waiting for the tragedy. And of course, it did eventually come…
I loved the other two UNIT Osterhagen operatives. The terrified girl, and the guy who didn’t want his name on this… awesome.
I am so bored of hearing opinions on Rose that I have decided officially to not have one.
So, what happened to Donna I do have an opinion on, of course. Because I loved her and I wish she could be the companion a lot longer. But… to be honest, part of me is most pissed off not with the Doctor, but with her. Because I thought she had more sense. She was such an awesome person while she was travelling with the Doctor and it wasn’t because she was half Timelord or had this epic destiny, it was because she was a temp from Chigwell, and the more I think about the fact that she obviously wanted to have her head explode rather than go back to that, the more I hate the idea (repeated by several on my flist and occasionally even in my own head) that if you can't be superintelligent and special, you're better off dead. It is terribly sad that she doesn't remember all the brilliant things she saw and did, it is sad that taking her back to that time has reset her self-image level to 0, but really, I'm still really glad she isn't dead. Even if nobody else is.
I have a post-Journey’s End Donna fic idea which makes me feel better about the ending, but it the whole thing was obviously pretty sad.
(What, you think knowing what he now knows about Donna - and about himself and the world in general - Wilf is going to stand by watching the sky while she does a job she hates? Look at what she did in Turn Left, that wasn’t the Doctor’s influence, it wasn’t Dalek Khan’s Epic Destiny, it was Donna. She didn’t remember anything about travelling with the Doctor. She just did it because it needed to be done.)
And finally, the Christmas episode trailer. I’m sure it will be awesome, but my first thought was (well it was ooh pretty, but my second thought was) oh for fuck’s sake, Cybermen again? They’ve managed to recycle things over and over and still make it awesome, but this could be their Daleks in Manhattan.
But yes, I would like to reinforce to anyone still reading, I really loved the vast majority of this episode.
In other pop culture news, I am both win and fail.
I managed to see Rufus Wainwright in concert on Saturday - he was AMAZING and all on his own on this big stage with a grand piano and a guitar, and he made gay jokes and omg he sang Hallelujah as an encore and he did Little Sister and The Art Teacher and Gay Messiah and California and Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk and a few others I didn't know as well, and omg, he did a setting of Sonnet 20 (aka The Really Gay One) which is apparently part of a Shakespeare thing he's doing in Berlin and it was lovely.
I have not yet seen Prince Caspian, or Indy 4, or Wanted. It’s not too late for any of these things, but it’s close. I also desperately want to see The Dark Knight and Wall-E and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (hey, I’m singing in it and it’s a silly adventure with Brendan Fraser in it, it might be really entertaining) and a whole bunch of other things. And am feeling vaguely fatalistic about how made of fail I will be if I don’t go.
On the other hand, I have booked to see the Lord of the Rings musical on Wednesday, which is pretty impressively last minute as it closes next Friday. Really looking forward to it a lot, actually… it just looks so pretty.
And now, random meme. Bold the ones you've done.
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (it was a very small mountain and I hated it)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said I love you and meant it
09. Hugged a tree (I can’t remember the specifics but I’m sure I have)
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game (I went to a Crystal Palace relegation game once, and we went to Wrigley Field and watched the Cubs lose. I don’t think either of those count.)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower (last year in the Lake District)
24. Gotten drunk on champagne (but I’m a ridiculous lightweight so it was probably only one glass)
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (from outside the Library of Wales, oddly enough, while ‘helping’ cottonwoolfairy with her third year astrophysics dissertation)
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Called in sick when you were not ill (to school, many, many times)
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Cornwall, which is some of them, and a side I’m fairly proud of, although obviously it’d be more exciting if I could say I’d been to Chile)
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales (we entirely failed to see whales in San Francisco, I think it was the wrong time of year for the boats)
56. Stolen a sign from uncle sam
57. Backpacked in Europe the USA
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign governments official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your CDs or DVDs
70. Pretended to be a superhero (I’m going to qualify this with ‘as a kid’ although more recently ‘in my head’ also applies…)
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Lets Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman (no, but now I want to. Of course, I’d probably lose… but you weren’t that attached to your honour anyway, right?)
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie (We are totally counting the singing, and I’ve been on the soundtrack to three - 1408, Prince Caspian, and Journey To the Centre Of The Earth, which is incidentally out this Friday! It looks incredibly silly, but if you had a good time in the Mummy and National Treasure, which I totally did, you should go and see it because it’s got Brendan Fraser and dinosaurs.)
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made you dizzy
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest (it was more of an adorability contest, but we were Orpheus and Euridice, and it was quite funny considering it’s really hard to come up with a costume that actually gets that across. It mostly involved J holding a violin and me standing behind her the whole time.)
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything.
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug (pot counts)
109. Performed on stage or recorded music
110. Eaten shark
111. Had a one-night-stand
112. Gone to Thailand
113. Seen Siouxsie live. (I’ve seen Rufus live, and I’ve been on stage with Ray Davies. I think those things both trump Siouxsie, but I didn’t write the quiz…)
114. Bought a home
115. Been in a combat zone
116. Buried one/both of your parents
117. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
118. Been on a cruise ship
119. Spoken more than one language fluently
120. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
121. Bounced a check
122. Performed in Rocky Horror
123. Read - and understood - your credit report
124. Raised children
125. Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy (no, but I have got several favourite childhood tv shows/movies on DVD recently)
126. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
127. Created and named your own constellation of stars
128. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
129. Found out something significant that your ancestors did (My Chilean ancestors are fairly awesome, although sometimes in a crap way. My great-great-etc grandfather was the President of Chile. More recently, they fought in the Chilean war of Independence… on the side of the Spanish. More recently than that, some of them were scary Franco supporters. But back on the awesome front, they did have a family coat of arms with boats on it!)
130. Called or written your Congressperson
131. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
132. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
133. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
134. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
135. Had an abortion, or your female partner did
136. Had plastic surgery
137. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.
138. Wrote articles for a publication
139. Lost over 100 pounds
140. Held someone while they were having a flashback
141. Piloted an airplane
142. Petted a stingray
143. Broken someone's heart
144. Helped an animal give birth
145. Been fired or laid off from a job
146. Won money on a T.V. game show
147. Broken a bone
148. Killed a human being
149. Gone on an African photo safari
150. Ridden a motorcycle
151. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of 100mph or faster?
152. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
153. Fired a rifle, shotgun or pistol
154. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
155. Ridden a horse (Lizzie was the horse mad one in the family, I went along too. I didn’t mind sitting on the very very small horse while it was led around on a string, but as soon as it was just me and the horse I totally panicked, and stopped going.)
156. Had major surgery
157. Had sex on a moving train
158. Had a snake as a pet
159. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (not all the way, but we did go about a mile down it, which was plenty)
160. Slept through an entire flight
161. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
162. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
163. Visited all 7 continents
164. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
165. Eaten kangaroo meat
166. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
167. Been a sperm or egg donor
168. Eaten sushi
169. Had your picture in the newspaper
170. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
171. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
172. Gotten someone fired for their actions
173. Gone back to school
174. Parasailed
175. Changed your name legally
176. Petted a cockroach
177. Eaten fried green tomatoes
178. Read The Iliad
179. Selected one "important" author whom you missed in school, and read him/ her
180. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
181. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
182. Taught yourself an art from scratch
183. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
184. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
185. Skipped all your school reunions so far.
186. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
187. Been elected to public office
188. Written your own computer language
189. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
190. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
191. Built your own PC from parts
192. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
193. Had a booth at a street fair
194. Dyed your hair (and no one noticed)
195. Been a DJ.
196. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
197. Written your own role playing game
198. Been arrested