one. i went to a school where you had to take on a sport. no if's, and's, or but's. i am the least competitive person on the planet and decided to join high jump, which had two (yes, two) other members, all who were as terrible as me. turns out high jump isn't really a big thing here in sydney, and no one in any school was really jumping (pun intended) to join, so i somehow made it all the way to state and placed second for our entire area. still to this day, i have no idea how or why or what kind of fluke that was. i had to go to a dinner and ceremony and my picture was taken/i had a full page spread for the school newspaper and it was made into this huge deal, but the reality was just that pretty much no one else showed up and i got it by default. oops. two. there's a painting of me hanging in the four seasons in hong kong. i met baz luhrmann as a teenager, and he told me i looked exactly as he pictured the virgin mary. he asked me to be a part of this tableau he was staging, which obviously i agreed to cos duh, and he had me, as the virgin mary, dragging jesus christ from the cross. this then became the inspiration for a painting - bear with me here - and the original painting was then purchased by the four seasons, and has been there for years. so if you've ever been there and happen upon it, just know it's teenage alycia staring back at you. three. i once accidentally had dinner with a drug cartel. i was on holiday with friends and a group of very handsome guys came over to us while we were lounging on the beach. we got to chatting, spent the day grabbing drinks and flirting, and they asked if we wanted to join them for dinner. they seemed harmless enough, so we agreed. it was the single most insane, lavish, gorgeous dinner any of us had ever experienced. i'm talking nonstop drinks, a billion courses, on a huge yacht... the works. we never kept in touch, but it was a fun holiday story. about a month later, we saw they got busted for being these super high figures in this massive drug cartel. my friend sent me a screenshot and was like, "...is that...?" and i almost spit out my coffee. oops again.