In the footsteps of alenxa, maldis, and sekl, LiveJournal proudly presents:
TEN THINGS I HAVE DONE THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVE NOT:
- Played Paul Gaugin in a musical.
- Gotten a cease-and-desist letter over a website.
- Watched the Olympic torch bearer run down my street. (In 1984, the route went right past my apartment complex. I have pictures.)
- Visited the crypt of the Capuchin Monks (links arranged in order of increasing photo/text ratio) [Note 2017: How appropriate that all three of those links are now dead.]
- Read Heart of Darkness four times.
- Seen Les Misérables (the musical) eight times.
- Gambled in the Grand Casino in Monte Carlo. (OK, so it was just 50 francs in a slot machine.)
- Run six or seven versions of Linux on the same computer, simultaneously.
- Been allergic to someone I dated.
- Made a telescope.
Been allergic to someone I dated.
Wow. Literally? I haven’t heard this one! What happened?
It wasn’t me…..
It was H.R. About a month after we started dating, I started to get hives for no apparent reason. It didn’t seem to be food, it didn’t seem to be laundry detergent, it didn’t follow the pattern of a contact allergy. The various allergists and dermatologists couldn’t find a definite cause, but agreed it was probably a reaction to something internal. Basically I got “Carry Benadryl” and the occasional regimen of prednesone.
It wasn’t consistent — it would flare up and disappear. One time it hit just as my musical theater class was getting ready to put on a performance, and it was so bad my face swelled up and I had to go to the doctor instead of the morning’s rehearsal. I got through the afternoon rehearsal and evening performance on lots of medication and sheer willpower, but spent the next few days in bed miserable.
The last flare-up was right before we broke up and faded completely within a few weeks. Since then — nothing.
I eventually concluded that it was her make-up. I figure I must have swallowed traces of her lipstick, and over time something in it built up to the point that I started breaking out, and once it cleared out of my system, I was fine.