curious4. When I'm having a bad day and want comfort food, I go home and curl up with a big bowl of frozen peas that have been heated in the microwave. All I put on them is a) salt, and b) pepper. This stems from a childhood misinterpretation of what chickpeas were, when the characters in a book I loved ate "fresh hot buttered chickpeas."
3. My family was very, very poor when I was younger. As a consequence, I think that butter tastes horrible, because we always got a brick of government butter in our "please don't starve to death" box. Margarine, on the other hand, is the taste of luxury. I had a bad margarine habit for a while after getting my first job, and bought a tub every time I went to the store.
2. I am very superstitious, and very picky about my superstitions. I count crows, pick up pennies, and occasionally look for auguries in bags of M&Ms. I do not, however, freak out when I see a funeral procession, or insist on touching my collar and asking magpies how their wives are. This helps me strike a good balance. Just never get between me and a street penny.
1. I have a paralyzing phobia of pudding, which extends to all "pudding-type" substances, including custard and overly-warm milkshakes. Suddenly biting into an unexpected cream filling has been known to make me throw up on the spot. Luckily, this does not extend to the unnatural white goo inside Twinkies.
So that's five things you may or may not know about me. What do you think I may or may not know about you?
December 27 2010, 19:09:15 UTC 6 years ago Edited: December 27 2010, 19:11:57 UTC
4. I am very analytical. College has only served to make this worse by giving me more tools to analyze more things. I never picked apart music I heard until taking music theory, for instance.
3. I have a large birth mark in the shape of a tear-drop on my left arm. I cannot tell you the number of times I've been asked what happened by someone who thought it was a bruise.
2. I have a thing for dragons, for some reason. I have no idea how it started, but I now collect them. I also have a large collection of polished stones and stones I just picked up off the ground. When I was little, this collection covered every windowsill in a two story house. We left most of it behind when we moved to an apartment. I have yet to get *that* many stones again. Or live in a house again.
1. I have a hard time NOT cleaning up or helping clean up after an event if I don't consider myself a guest. I used to help stack chairs and clean up every week at church. I don't do this so much anymore because I'm only home every once in a while and I spend the time catching up with people instead. My HM (House Manager) and other Res-Life staff hosted a winter festival at my house a couple weeks ago. I spent time at the arts and crafts table and consequently started cleaning up at the end of the event despite my HM telling me it wasn't necessary, repeatedly. I also tend to be on time or early to things. Earlier when I have a long car ride, because I then leave a half hour earlier than strictly necessary. This is in part from marching band, where we had to be 15 minutes early to get set up and be out on the field on time. "Early is on time, on time is late, late is unacceptable." I'm getting less anal, slowly, since everything at my school tends to start 15 minutes late rather than early. Edit: I'm convinced the clean-up routine started in band, too, although concert band rather than marching band. We always had to stack chairs and stuff after classes and events. Of course, my mother also expects us to clean up after ourselves.
I probably have other, more interesting quirks, but unless someone tells me it isn't normal, I have a hard time telling that I do something differently.
December 28 2010, 15:43:37 UTC 6 years ago
Word.