Random AW facts about you?

hz80408 · March 2011

Any misc. tidbits you haven't shared yet that you'd like us to know about you/your life?

hz80408 · March 2011

-My first summer living in Chicago, we lived across the street from the original Playboy Mansion

-My great-grandpa holds the world record for fastest time around the bases in baseball (link) It's funny that he played for the White Sox, yet I'm a huge Cubs fan

Anabeth420 · March 2011

I'm directly related to one of the signers of the Deceleration of Independence.

My Grandad helped design and test the software for the first space shuttle launch, and still does work for Nasa. They also watched one of the astronauts dogs while he was in space.

I did better on my SATs in 7th grade, and got offered a scholarship to John's Hopkins, than I did my Jr. year.

I'm a published poet.

And I honestly think if I could work up the balls to audition, which will never happen, I'd be at least top 10 on American Idol.

Boynton1286 · March 2011

-My dad is a professional bass fisherman and was gone pretty much every weekend when I was growing up. He has now moved on to collecting motocycles, and I think that my parents currently have 2 bass boats and about 7 or 8 motorcycles.

-I gradated from highschool 6 months early and went straight to college at 17. I finished my 2 year degree in a year and a half.

I am not very interesting.

hutchsl · March 2011

At work I have had some unique opportunities:

I was in the firing room on colsole for a Space Shuttle launch
I have sat in the commanders seat of the Endeavour Space Shuttle (and had my picture taken there) when it was being processed for launch.
Been out at the launch pad 24 hours before the launch to load last minute experiments in the shuttle.
Talked to astronauts in space from the Johnson Space center control room during an entire shuttle mission. It was in Feb 2000, and I got a valentines greeting from space.
Eaten chocolates that have been in orbit.

nfp147 · March 2011

I have met the last three Canadian Prime Ministers in person.

I am a descendant of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone (and my Grandma has a wreath made out of ancestors' hair - his is in it)

OceanHutt · March 2011

My dad has 3 antique cars...and I was raised at car shows from the age of 6

I'm a musical theatre junkie...and a former drama geek

my great grandfather was the captian of the whaling ship The Morgan

I lived through a misscarriage and a D&C (some of you know this) I was most likely a twin.

I founded a local chapter of a national sorority.

I can drive a standard shift and have had nothing but 5 speeds

MeganJ26 · March 2011

My uncle is the CEO/President of Aurora Flight Sciences in DC. They do a lot of contract work for NASA. When he was at MIT, he organized and led a series of human-powered aircraft projects, culminating in the Daedalus Project which in 1988 shattered the world distance and endurance records for human-powered flight with a 72 mile flight between the Greek islands of Crete and Santorini. It is currently at the Smithsonian Museum. I wish I had 1/2 of his brains!

hz80408 · March 2011

oooh, I love these! So fun/cool

Xan921 · March 2011

I live about 15 minutes from Burkittsville, where ?The Blair Witch Project? movie was based and have camped in the woods where the witch is supposed to be. Oddly enough, the woods are really easy to get out of. I got tired of camping one night and found my way back to the car in the middle of the night by myself.

I can flip my eyelids inside out. It really freaks people out.

I swear my Mom?s house I haunted and that I?ve seen a ghost of a little boy there. Years after I first saw this, I did some research and found out a little boy who used to live in the house died of cancer, not in the house, but while his family was still living there.

My entire family has musical and/or artistic talent and such a passion for it; I have none. Sometimes they ask me what I?m passionate about; my response is always petting kittens/cats lol.

Kristi_M1123 · March 2011

I am incredibly intelligent, but fear showing it because I think it will alienate those around me.

Whenever I DIY something, I am rarely dis-pleased with the results. I think things through very thoroughly before applying them to my projects.

I have a decent voice, though I am usually goofing off when others hear me singing.

I am a published writer.

I "work smarter, not harder." Co-workers (management especially) frustrate me to no end!

chantico23 · March 2011

My brother-in-law is the drummer for a nationally-known country music artist

My other brother-in-law is a yachtsman, and was a part of the crew that won the America's Cup in '92

While still in high school, I participated in a program where I taught school to truants and delinquents. My main student was 14 and pregnant with her first child. She was court-ordered to participate in the program, and I taught her in her home, where roaches crawled the walls, they had no refrigerator, and she slept on a mattress in the living room. Seeing that on a daily basis made me incredibly grateful for my upbringing.

I used my high school graduation money from my grandmother to start a business, which I ran successfully for 7 years.

I totaled 4 cars in a one-year period. Granted, they were all $5,000 or less cars, so it didn't take much to total them, but still...that's 3 accidents and one serious hail damage incident in one year.

kjhharris · March 2011

I've been asked out to dinner by Ben Stein.

My great grandfather was electrocuted by lightning when he was testing one of the first phones.

I was published in a Classics journal in college, but my major was Biology.

I'm truly untalented in all things musical - I have absolutely no sense of tone, pitch or rhythm (so bad I can't stand to hear myself sing), but understand this and don't subject others to listening/watching me!

I helped throw a party in college that got shut down by the FAA. (yes, the flight administration)

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