Correction--she didn't try skydiving, but competitive barrel racing
(on a large rodeo horse). Riding around at breakneck speed on a 1,000
pound animal sounded scary enough to me, but she liked it.
Diana
Begin forwarded message:
From: Diana Tomchick <[email protected]>
Date: May 30, 2008 10:53:52 AM CDT
To: [email protected]
Cc: Cave Tex <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] I had no idea that I'd ever be on You Tube
I'll make this story brief--we led a beginner's trip to Whirlpool
and Maple Run one weekend last fall. Andrea (the woman in the video)
came along because her friend Emily (who's continued to be a caver,
and really loves it) asked her to do it. Andrea wrote a column for
the Dallas Observer (the local weekly arts paper) that focused on
her trying out new activities, so she was willing to try caving but
wasn't convinced she'd like it. I didn't find out that she was a
newspaper columnist until we'd reached Waco, and by that time it was
too late to pull the truck over to the side of the road and ask her
to walk home. :)
Lest you think that Andrea is a wimpy person, she told us that of
all the activities she'd researched for her column, skydiving and
standup comedy were her favorites. She has continued to perform
standup (she moved to Austin this spring), which in my mind is much
more terrifying than trying to get through the entrance squeeze in
Maple Run.
Diana
On May 30, 2008, at 10:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:
So how did that girl get involved with the caving trip? It sounded
like it was someone else's idea. Ha.
So you see how this Youtube thing works now. Upload some of your
own videos from your digital camera. I put one up from Frozen Dead
Guy Days in Nederland a month ago.
-Tim
_______________________________________________
Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com
The most personalized portal on the Web!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Visit our website: http://texascavers.com
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: [email protected]
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Visit our website: http://texascavers.com
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: [email protected]
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Visit our website: http://texascavers.com
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
