The 7 Quirks Meme
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qowf.
A)List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B) Tag seven people to do the same.
C) Do not tag the person who tagged you or tag "whoever wants to do it."
Sure man, I am in too much pain and too hung over and too tired to do anything more challenging than navel gaze. I don't know that I can come up with anything truly surprising or weird for this one-- there's little about myself I don't talk about online pretty much constantly. But we'll see!
added: I started this on Sunday the 6th right after the bout, and it's taken me days and days to come up with all seven things. It doesn't help that Z refuses to give me any input-- "You're perfectly normal," he says blandly, "in every possible way."
1) I have a thing for even numbers. I've eased up on it a bit, but it's weird for me to do something like, say, eat 3 M&Ms. I have to bite one in half and put half of it on each side of my mouth so I feel balanced. If I'm walking and step on a crack with one foot, I have to make sure I step on a crack with the other foot too, sometimes to the point that I'd go out of my way to find another crack to step on. I don't think it's superstition or anything, it's just sensory-- the foot that felt the bump under it/ molars that chewed the extra M&M feel(s) different than the one(s) that didn't, and I have to even them out. I used to always have to spin in the other direction if I'd been spinning in one, just to even that out too, but I think roller derby has cured me of that. I'm not about to go spend 500 hours skating clockwise just to make up for last season.
2) I bite my fingernails, but very infrequently. I used to do it all the time as a kid, but not compulsively the way Z does. (His nails are always so short no white shows.) I just never seem to have mastered fingernail clippers properly-- I can never get them to cut cleanly. When I was younger I hated toenail clippers too, and used to bite my toenails. I am serious. I can still reach, by the way-- it's the only direction I'm at all flexible.
3) I am prone to developing verbal tics. I pick up accents in seconds, sometimes out of nowhere. I know I was Canadian for most of last night [the night of the bout, April 5th, and the afterparty...], and have no idea why, my vowels just kept kinda stretching. I don't do it to mock people. And I fall into and out of using particular words or phrases all the time and sometimes have to consciously force myself to stop doing things like, say, using "super" in front of every adjective. (I caught that one from a coworker we dubbed Super Jeff. He was never drunk, he was super-hammered. He was never simply weary, he was super-tired. Etc.)
4) I dunno if this is really a quirk, so much as a serious mental issue, but I have no memory. If I did not write it down, it did not happen. This is part of the reason I'm such an obsessive LJ-er. I literally have only vague impressions of the world if I did not either write down or photograph the event/situation/idea. At first simply the act of recording it makes it clearer in my memory, but after that, I do periodically have to re-visit the thing I wrote down. This may be why I am such an obsessive hoarder of things, scraps of paper I've written on, ticket stubs and bottle caps and event programs and postcards. I otherwise will, literally, completely forget that it ever happened, that I ever felt that way, that I ever saw something.
5) I talk to myself when I'm alone. Not only do I talk to myself, but I have lengthy dialogues. Especially in the car. If I'm not singing, then I'm passionately arguing some topic or other. Sometimes I argue both sides. Sometimes I interview myself. Sometimes I fantasize that it's a conversation with someone who has been annoying me and I'm totally putting them in their place. Sometimes.... Sometimes I get really worked up and yell and scream and cry. By myself. In the car. Or at home when nobody else is there.
6) I have this weird horror of inefficiency. I am possibly the least efficient person in the world, but I always feel like if I'm doing something at all, I should be doing two or three things at once. I hate to leave the house anyway, so if I'm going out to run an errand, I have to think of three or four errands to take care of while I'm out. It gets to the point where I'll postpone grocery shopping for two weeks because the prospect of also going to the shoe store, the sausage shop, the liquor store, and Target as well while I'm out getting bread and milk overwhelms me. I may well end up a crazy hermit cat lady in my old age.
7) I have no problem holding two contradictory beliefs at once. It simply doesn't bother me. I can believe in reincarnation and in the Catholic concept of the uniqueness of souls at the same time without really twisting anything. I simply have an overdeveloped belief muscle. I'm perfectly willing to believe in two people's varied accounts of an event because they each believe in them. What it boils down to is that I more or less believe that the golden, shining Truth is really a pretty blurry thing. I don't fully, precisely believe in anything, which makes it easy to believe in everything. Everyone fudges the details, right? Which means that the basic concepts are the important part. I genially accept it all and see little need to refine it further.
Oh my god, looking back on all this, and the fact that it took me a week to write, I really am crazy. Oh well.
I'm a bit reluctant to tag seven people, given how long it took me-- I don't know that everyone else is in a place where they want to or can sit and think about themselves for this long! It was kind of relaxing, in among the rest of the week's clutter, but I don't know that anyone else would feel that way. Still, I suppose-- I invite these people to do it, if they like, because it would be interesting to read.
alex_beecroft, soulofbuffalo, radaromalley, lethal_lorelei, jennnlee, fauxfire76, and of course, because he's so perfectly normal, Zobar. (And yes, you'd think I'd know his habits and quirks, but I want to know what he considers to be his quirks.)
qowf. A)List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B) Tag seven people to do the same.
C) Do not tag the person who tagged you or tag "whoever wants to do it."
Sure man, I am in too much pain and too hung over and too tired to do anything more challenging than navel gaze. I don't know that I can come up with anything truly surprising or weird for this one-- there's little about myself I don't talk about online pretty much constantly. But we'll see!
added: I started this on Sunday the 6th right after the bout, and it's taken me days and days to come up with all seven things. It doesn't help that Z refuses to give me any input-- "You're perfectly normal," he says blandly, "in every possible way."
1) I have a thing for even numbers. I've eased up on it a bit, but it's weird for me to do something like, say, eat 3 M&Ms. I have to bite one in half and put half of it on each side of my mouth so I feel balanced. If I'm walking and step on a crack with one foot, I have to make sure I step on a crack with the other foot too, sometimes to the point that I'd go out of my way to find another crack to step on. I don't think it's superstition or anything, it's just sensory-- the foot that felt the bump under it/ molars that chewed the extra M&M feel(s) different than the one(s) that didn't, and I have to even them out. I used to always have to spin in the other direction if I'd been spinning in one, just to even that out too, but I think roller derby has cured me of that. I'm not about to go spend 500 hours skating clockwise just to make up for last season.
2) I bite my fingernails, but very infrequently. I used to do it all the time as a kid, but not compulsively the way Z does. (His nails are always so short no white shows.) I just never seem to have mastered fingernail clippers properly-- I can never get them to cut cleanly. When I was younger I hated toenail clippers too, and used to bite my toenails. I am serious. I can still reach, by the way-- it's the only direction I'm at all flexible.
3) I am prone to developing verbal tics. I pick up accents in seconds, sometimes out of nowhere. I know I was Canadian for most of last night [the night of the bout, April 5th, and the afterparty...], and have no idea why, my vowels just kept kinda stretching. I don't do it to mock people. And I fall into and out of using particular words or phrases all the time and sometimes have to consciously force myself to stop doing things like, say, using "super" in front of every adjective. (I caught that one from a coworker we dubbed Super Jeff. He was never drunk, he was super-hammered. He was never simply weary, he was super-tired. Etc.)
4) I dunno if this is really a quirk, so much as a serious mental issue, but I have no memory. If I did not write it down, it did not happen. This is part of the reason I'm such an obsessive LJ-er. I literally have only vague impressions of the world if I did not either write down or photograph the event/situation/idea. At first simply the act of recording it makes it clearer in my memory, but after that, I do periodically have to re-visit the thing I wrote down. This may be why I am such an obsessive hoarder of things, scraps of paper I've written on, ticket stubs and bottle caps and event programs and postcards. I otherwise will, literally, completely forget that it ever happened, that I ever felt that way, that I ever saw something.
5) I talk to myself when I'm alone. Not only do I talk to myself, but I have lengthy dialogues. Especially in the car. If I'm not singing, then I'm passionately arguing some topic or other. Sometimes I argue both sides. Sometimes I interview myself. Sometimes I fantasize that it's a conversation with someone who has been annoying me and I'm totally putting them in their place. Sometimes.... Sometimes I get really worked up and yell and scream and cry. By myself. In the car. Or at home when nobody else is there.
6) I have this weird horror of inefficiency. I am possibly the least efficient person in the world, but I always feel like if I'm doing something at all, I should be doing two or three things at once. I hate to leave the house anyway, so if I'm going out to run an errand, I have to think of three or four errands to take care of while I'm out. It gets to the point where I'll postpone grocery shopping for two weeks because the prospect of also going to the shoe store, the sausage shop, the liquor store, and Target as well while I'm out getting bread and milk overwhelms me. I may well end up a crazy hermit cat lady in my old age.
7) I have no problem holding two contradictory beliefs at once. It simply doesn't bother me. I can believe in reincarnation and in the Catholic concept of the uniqueness of souls at the same time without really twisting anything. I simply have an overdeveloped belief muscle. I'm perfectly willing to believe in two people's varied accounts of an event because they each believe in them. What it boils down to is that I more or less believe that the golden, shining Truth is really a pretty blurry thing. I don't fully, precisely believe in anything, which makes it easy to believe in everything. Everyone fudges the details, right? Which means that the basic concepts are the important part. I genially accept it all and see little need to refine it further.
Oh my god, looking back on all this, and the fact that it took me a week to write, I really am crazy. Oh well.
I'm a bit reluctant to tag seven people, given how long it took me-- I don't know that everyone else is in a place where they want to or can sit and think about themselves for this long! It was kind of relaxing, in among the rest of the week's clutter, but I don't know that anyone else would feel that way. Still, I suppose-- I invite these people to do it, if they like, because it would be interesting to read.
alex_beecroft, soulofbuffalo, radaromalley, lethal_lorelei, jennnlee, fauxfire76, and of course, because he's so perfectly normal, Zobar. (And yes, you'd think I'd know his habits and quirks, but I want to know what he considers to be his quirks.)
