Idiosyncrasies!

varsonin challenged me to list five personal idiocyncracies, then 'tag' a few others to do the same.

Rubbing Of The Eyes
All my employees know that gesture. Something happens, gets said wrong, goes wrong, and my thumb and forefinger reach up behind my glasses and slowly rub away the mental strain. "Oh...oh look, he's going for... eyerub! Everyone duck!"

Getting Mad At (Parents) Computers
Computer problems bug me, but stuff at my parents particularly send me over the edge, due to some technology ghost that destroys everything computery that enters that house, excepting my laptop while I lived there. Apparently I curse a lot when working on them, and lose my temper very quickly. God Damn Interweb!

Used The Word "Jackal" More Than Anyone On Earth
I once did one of those wordcount things that analyze the number of times you use a particular word. "I" and "The" are usually the most common... Jackal came in before THE!!! Holy cow. I'm a jackal. Jackal, jackal, it's a jackal.

No Concept Of Time
Hours could be minutes, I don't know. I understand the idea of Millennia better than the idea of a day. "See you in a little while," could mean days or months to me. Shane laughs at that. I fall asleep in the afternoon, and honestly don't know when I wake up what day it is. I may well have slept 12 hours, or 1, I never quite know.

The Thing I Do With Straw Wrappers
Ok, It's hard to explain, but I rip it in the middle of the wrapper, not on the end, and pull the two halves off. ====/ /==== like that, then I put them together and fold them in half, then twist the middle making a sort of paper octopus looking thing. I almost always do this, without thinking. Only when I am VERY upset or preoccupied do I not do this. If you see me not do this unconscious thing, you know something is up.

Three bonus idiosyncrasies!:

Always Wear Jackal Pin
On my lapel or on my pocket of my shirt, I always have my little pin of Anubis' head. I've worn it nearly daily for years now, at least 3 I'd say. Made and sold by Heather Bruton, I lost it once about a year ago. I felt TERRIBLE until a month or so later I was at AnthroCon and bought TWO to replace it, just-in-case. You can alwayse expect to see it somewhere on me, even in a tshirt.

Fortean Skeptic
"I Want To Believe" No not really, I'm the Scully to the Mulder of any kind of belief. Though I do have to admit, the crazier stuff is always more interesting than reality. Atlantis and bigfoot are more intersting than boring science. I admit I read the news of the weird kind of stuff, and have fun reading 'true' supernatural stories, they even give me the willies, but I don't beleive in anything like that. No god, no ghosts, no simple luxuries (like 'easy answers'). But... Wouldn't it be interesting if...

Reading The Last Page Of The Book
Tonight I was looking at the original book Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie at Wal-Mart. I flipped to the last page to read it, and Shane noted this was one of my other idiosyncrasies. I read the last page of a book instead of the first. I think it's indicative of my interest in knowing 'the answer' instead of all the questions leading up to it. If the answer is interesting enough, I'll look at what led up to it. I've always described it as if I could travel in time, I'd go to the end of all time just to see if everything leading up to the end of the story was worth getting there. Like most books I bet it won't be. And nothing like anyone thought.

I tag; nexrad, perro, vulpnikov and happyevileris. Have at you.

"There's no life after death, don't let people lie to you, trust science, trust yourself, and love your mom." -Penn Jillette