Proof That I Do Not Have Bardic Knowledge
Mar. 17th, 2007 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Today, at the Scale Model Show our club put on, I was given the task of speaking into the microphone to test the Public Address system of the ballroom that is our venue.
I didn't think to rattle off some poem or song lyric or stage play soliloquy. I just did phonetic alphabet and numbers, and perhaps some echo of my days as a student pilot. Six Niner Lima calling Knoxville Control, come in...
I guess the problem is that as I never was serious enough as an actor to actually attempt a role in a play, or anything like that in my youth, I never memorized anything so useful to that particular cause. I have RL friends who have memorized sidebars from articles in White Dwarf, or dialogue from 8-Bit Theater, but I think that's a little extreme in terms of how somebody uses their mind.
I've abused my memory a great deal in the past. But these days I don't like to keep too much IN my mind for fear of having too much ON my mind.
FP
Today, at the Scale Model Show our club put on, I was given the task of speaking into the microphone to test the Public Address system of the ballroom that is our venue.
I didn't think to rattle off some poem or song lyric or stage play soliloquy. I just did phonetic alphabet and numbers, and perhaps some echo of my days as a student pilot. Six Niner Lima calling Knoxville Control, come in...
I guess the problem is that as I never was serious enough as an actor to actually attempt a role in a play, or anything like that in my youth, I never memorized anything so useful to that particular cause. I have RL friends who have memorized sidebars from articles in White Dwarf, or dialogue from 8-Bit Theater, but I think that's a little extreme in terms of how somebody uses their mind.
I've abused my memory a great deal in the past. But these days I don't like to keep too much IN my mind for fear of having too much ON my mind.
FP
