Musical Daydream Immunity

85. I once sang through all of the musical The Last 5 Years with a fellow I’d just met with my friend Liesl in her apartment. My friend Greg was there, and seemed wholly miserable throughout the duration of our impromptu performance. Despite that, I’d count it as one of the best nights of my entire life. I got the opportunity to span the emotional gamut through song with a built-in (i.e. hostage) audience. It was wonderful.

86. Sometimes when I’m on the L and it’s packed to the gills, if I make eye contact with a young guy standing with relative proximity to me, I have this crazy, Mean Girls-style daydream in which I lean over and start trying to make out with him, just to see what he and all the other L passengers would do. Of course, I would never, never, never actually do it (as much as I like the idea of guerilla theatre, it's really better if the other people you're directly affecting are involved). Never, never, ever, ever. But I think about it probably once a week.

87. I have a strange immune system. I have had the chicken pox twice (once in first grade, once in third grade… Yes, that’s possible. Both of my brothers had them twice as well). I’ve had a sundry of illnesses that I’m fairly certain were related to the plague (including my senior year of college when I was so sick –- fever, ear infection, throat infection, coughing up blood, vomiting, stress stomachache –- that, even on a double dose of Codine, I was awake for over 64 hours straight). I’ve been hospitalized for conjunctivitis. I had ear infections and strep. throat so frequently in third grade that I was the second most absent student in the whole grade that year, and I was about three days away from having to repeat the grade according to state law. Despite all this, I have never had the flu. *knock on wood*