1) I'm with you on extraterrestrial life. Any planet in a habitable orbit of a star has to have developed life, maybe technologically intelligent, maybe not, but considering the size of the universe, a lot of planets have to have developed life. Not sure I believe in the feasibility of spaceflight to other solar systems, though.
2) I'd zip-line (I think) and I'd consider white-water rafting (I've participated in a couple of airbed races on rivers here) but no way would I go on a roller coaster; they don't have brakes (that I'm aware of)!
3) I would like to try parachuting, but there's nowhere near here where I could; and I'd love to have learned to fly, but for practicality had to settle for learning to drive...
4) I've given up on conventions (other than GMOH) - there aren't many in the UK now anyway - but I used to love them.
5) I'm not particularly musical - had piano lessons for years and was never much good. I could never absolutely synchronise my hands; my left hand always hit the keyboard a nanosecond before the right.
6) But while I've never used the qualification, I *am* qualified to do speech training. I've done a little amateur stage work over the years, though, which I suppose has made some use of it.
7) I'd have liked a job in biological research, but after I passed all the biology exams at school (with good marks) I discovered that I'd been misadvised; I should have taken chemistry/physics to get a BsC and gone on from there into biology. I suspect my head teacher did that deliberately; he didn't really believe in girls doing academic work apart from teaching. So I ended up in teaching by default.
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2) I'd zip-line (I think) and I'd consider white-water rafting (I've participated in a couple of airbed races on rivers here) but no way would I go on a roller coaster; they don't have brakes (that I'm aware of)!
3) I would like to try parachuting, but there's nowhere near here where I could; and I'd love to have learned to fly, but for practicality had to settle for learning to drive...
4) I've given up on conventions (other than GMOH) - there aren't many in the UK now anyway - but I used to love them.
5) I'm not particularly musical - had piano lessons for years and was never much good. I could never absolutely synchronise my hands; my left hand always hit the keyboard a nanosecond before the right.
6) But while I've never used the qualification, I *am* qualified to do speech training. I've done a little amateur stage work over the years, though, which I suppose has made some use of it.
7) I'd have liked a job in biological research, but after I passed all the biology exams at school (with good marks) I discovered that I'd been misadvised; I should have taken chemistry/physics to get a BsC and gone on from there into biology. I suspect my head teacher did that deliberately; he didn't really believe in girls doing academic work apart from teaching. So I ended up in teaching by default.