Some things about me that don't fit on a CV:
Trained to teach high school biology and math. Ended up doing a PhD in statistics instead. Life is funny.
Former youth team leader in a music society and clarinetist. Can still march in formation if needed.
Certified oil spill responder. Hoping I'll never have to use that skill.
Five languages: German (native), English (fluent), Norwegian (fluent), French (potentially survivable), Latin (very dead).
Two universities at once, two degrees in parallel, finished in the wrong order, then made a degree switch the system said wasn't possible. Later worked in cars and insurance. Now in academia. Standard career paths are overrated.
My trip to my semester abroad included two deaths on the tracks, evacuation by firefighters, a drug check at the Danish border, and 9-meter waves. I arrived eventually. Seasick, but alive.
Side effect of academia: my friends are spread across 6 countries and 16 cities. I'm very good at time zones now. Still can't sleep on planes though.
Things that have happened on the way to conferences: cancelled flights (4), emergency rebookings (lost count), a bus driver on his literal first day, a pilot possibly too drunk to fly, a nosebleed that ruined my favourite trousers, and a 20-hour Greyhound through the night with two strangers whose best friends were murdered in a taxi. Academia is glamorous.