Idiosyncracies, Icon Poll

[dlgood]

chrislee tagged me

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1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.

List five of your own idiosyncrasies and then tag five friends to do the same. (I don't tag..)

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1) I fidget with my index fingers. I like to bend stuff under them, and flick back and forth. Scrap paper. Sheets and pillow cases. Sometimes my ear lobe. I can't explain the process without a demonstration, but it's goofy.

2) I brush my teeth in the shower. I started doing this a few years ago, and I don't know why. I think I do it as an excuse to prolong my time under the water in the morning.

3) I don't like wearing socks. And yet, I'm paranoid about walking around barefoot.

4) I like to read in the bathroom. Sometimes at work, I print out newspaper articles to take into the can with me - and then throw them away. It's peaceful.

5) I'm obsessed with mapping. I used to get lost bicycling around the neighborhood as a kid, just so I could know where all the streets went. I had a wall-sized DC map on my dorm room wall in college. Sometimes, I randomly call up street maps online just for fun. But if called upon, I usually know a street that gets me where I need to get.


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Comments

[ann1962]

What is it with guys and maps? Maybe a hunter gatherer thing? My husband does this too. We have a huge collection. From all of the US, Canada, Europe and South America. He reads maps at breakfast. You can ask him any question about pretty much any highway in the US or Canada and he knows what highway to take to get anywhere.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I think it's also a personality thing... I like looking at frameworks, and big-picture spatial relationships. It's just neat.

And really, you can't expect us to eat breakfast and not read at the same time...