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[earlgreytea68]

 

Seven quirks, courtesy of jlrpuck 

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it. 

 

1. I once continued to eat slivers of a stale, probably moldy apple pie because I thought it was helping the Red Sox to win games. (And, hey, they won the World Series while I was still eating the stupid pie, so it was all worth it.)

2. I had to evacuate New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, leaving all of my belongings stranded there for six weeks. But they were all mostly safe and sound when I got back, so I was one of the lucky ones. 

3. I have an electromagnetic field that surrounds me and causes electricity to work in unpredictable ways around me. Okay, not really. But it is totally true that I am jinxed and anything electronic in my vicinity will eventually break in an unusual fashion. Even more oddly? These electronics tend to fix themselves once they are removed from my vicinity. Exhibit 1: my friend's computer and digital camera, both of which broke while she was visting me but work just fine now. 

4. When I was in high school, I was a member of academic decathlon. And you know what? I had a fabulous time!

5. I hate flying. I believe that the only thing that keeps planes from crashing left and right is God. So I take my great-grandmother's rosary beads with me on every flight I take, and I pray before take-off for God to keep me (and everyone else flying that day, because I try not to be selfish in my prayers) safe. Then, after we land safely, I make a point to say a prayer of thanks, because I don't want God to think I'm ungrateful.

6. I do not understand science. Like, any part of it. I am actually a reasonably smart, well-educated person, but I have never understood what an atom is. And I have no real desire to learn. On the other hand, I do closely analyze Doppler radar so that I can do my own weather forecasting, because meteorologists are really rather rubbish.

7. I am a rocker. By which I mean, I sit, almost all the time, in a rocking chair. In which I rock. And a real rocking chair, not one of those glider devices. I actually broke my laptop by doing this, because I sit with it on my lap and rock back and forth, back and forth, and eventually the motioned loosened the monitor part enough that one day it just kind of came disconnected and crashed to the floor, revealing its inner electronic bits. True story. (Actually, I've just realized this is probably something everyone knew, since my location is almost always rocking chair. Should I offer another fact? Um, I won't eat any foods that have the consistency of mayonnaise, sour cream, pudding, etc. It grosses me out to have that sort of consistency in my mouth.)

I don't even really know seven people on LJ, let alone seven people who haven't been tagged. All of my LJ friends just tolerate me reading their fics and squeeing to them...I am totally cheating and tagging

arctacuda, who will probably never do it and who jlrpuck already tagged, but you know... And then I'm pleading anti-social-ness for the rest.

 

Comments

[rosa-acicularis.livejournal.com]

Um, I won't eat any foods that have the consistency of mayonnaise, sour cream, pudding, etc. It grosses me out to have that sort of consistency in my mouth.

Golly gee! I thought I was the only one who felt this way. The very idea of pudding is enough to nauseate me. Blech.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Pudding-haters of the world unite! (I also went to an all-girls school. We may, in fact, be the same person.)

[rosa-acicularis.livejournal.com]

We may, in fact, be the same person.

Yay! Internet twin! We should develop a secret internet handshake.

[jlrpuck.livejournal.com]

EGT, it was very nice of you not to blame Claude or TSB for the, er, electrical issues which plague your apartment.

(ps: Hi, Claude! Call me!) :D

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

I try not to be *too* accusatory.

I don't often succeed.