I don't think my life has been all that exciting...

[oursin]

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[chickenfeet2003]

I've done #3

[oursin]

I assumed from the poem that Gundagai was meant to be where you got to once you'd gone a bit further past the back of beyond, but that's probably no longer the case.

[chickenfeet2003]

It's not really all that remote. It's on the Hume Highway between Melbourne and Sydney in the Southern Highlands of NSW. My ex BIL farmed up that way.

[oursin]

I passed through it on the way from Canberra to Wagga-Wagga, so, no, on main road and not really remote. It just struck me, possibly wrongly, as one of those places that not many people have been.

[besideserato]

#4 & #5!!!

[oursin]

Those mopeds are a nightmare!
Where was your necrophilia article published?!

[besideserato]

I keep my life and my work very, very separate. Credibility unfortunately is a HUGE thing to watch out for in my field.

[oursin]

Was necrophilia life or work? - or would that be giving too much away?

[sartorias]

Re five, I was hurled off the sidewalk and directly into the street (and the oncoming traffic, which did veer, or I wouldn't be typing this!) while on the Left Bank in Paris, by I guess a student radical who loathed Americans, judging from the abuse he shouted at me for merely existing.

The stench of his sweat stayed on my clothes that entire day.

[oursin]

I don't think the motivation of the rider of the moped in my case was any more sinister or malicious than either a) determination to deliver a pizza in extra-fast time or b) being too stoned to be in charge of a vehicle.

[slemslempike]

I haven't done any of these, but am mightily impressed by number nine, and deeply jealous.

[oursin]

And we got all the way through to the quarter-finals, yay! thrashing 3 Oxbridge teams on the way.

[jonquil]

8. Had a letter published in The Times Literary Supplement.

::genuflects::

[oursin]

Delivering a formal academic bitch-slap to someone whingeing about what I'd written about his lousy book in a review.