Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Great For Those Icebreaker Games
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2007 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Do you keep a list of unusual things you've done? Even just mentally? For me, that list just got an item longer.
- Danced with an Elvis impersonator
- Gotten booed by thousands of people (twice!)
- Translated poetry from Kannada into English
- Written a weekly newspaper column with circulation in the hundreds of thousands
- Undergone an eight-hour job interview (yes, all in one session on one day) (this is the new one)
Comments
Rachel
29 Nov 2007, 14:32 p.m.
mikepop
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29 Nov 2007, 15:39 p.m.
Glad you survived! I think my longest interview day was 7 hrs. , but that was being passed among many different people.
(My icebreaker game list is: 1. went to Tokyo for a weekend; 2. ran in the world's largest footrace, 3. performed in an off-off-off-Broadway (ok, Yonkers) play 4. was interviewed by the NYT)
Halifax
30 Nov 2007, 0:30 a.m.
The ones I usually trot out are 1. bitten by a mountain lion or 2. seen a hunchback woman go to the bathroom. Depending on the crowd.
what about usual things you HAVEN'T done for ten fingers?
I bet you're tired