Idiosyncrasies

[melo_annechen]

I got tagged by cairech .

Id·i·o·syn·cra·sy:
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. Or not... if that is your quirk.

1. I am consistently surprised by my reflection in full-length mirrors. My body doesn’t drive the way it looks.

2. I am unable to sleep more than 4 to 6 hours within a 24-hour period in a strange place, unless I am ill or extremely faced.

3. I am a female tenor.

4. I preferred Carl Sagan and James Burke to the pop singers of my early teenage years. Still do. Ooh, they give good brain…

5. I am a neat freak at work, but my desk at home regularly succumbs to the Tyranny of the Horizontal Surface.

Now we shall ask to explore the dark recesses of

chanlemur , jonathan_towne , saxondog , ms_issicran , and blackbyrd2

Comments

I- d - i - o - syn - cra - sy:

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

We're somewhat similar, especially when I read your numbers 1 & 2. So mine would go like this:

1. I am horrified when I catch my reflection in a mirror. My mental age hates my physical age and wants time to stop for a good long while.

2. I find I can only sleep for 6 hours at a time, seven if I drink absolutely nothing for 24 hours previous, and if I sleep longer than 7 I'm a cranky zombie the rest of the day.

3. I played the clarinet until 7th grade when I switched to choir. I am an alto and can reach soprano (about a million cigarettes ago).

4. I prefer sex to just about every other form of endorphin producing (eh, who's kidding, EVERY OTHER) activity.

5. I am anal retentive at work and must portray a very organized work area. At home it's chaos, an organized chaos, but nonetheless...

Re: I- d - i - o - syn - cra - sy:

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Waitaminit - I think we're related...

Re: I- d - i - o - syn - cra - sy:

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

Freaky huh, I thought you'd actually written mine down there for a sec...

[jeffreycwells.livejournal.com]

Hm.

I've got a couple big ones that I'm not entirely comfortable sharing. Heh heh. I'll see if something bubbles up, though. :)

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

I must admit, it does not surprise me in the least, { must... not... make... rude... AAHRGH!} always thought you had a couple of big ones.

Idiosyncrasy 6: My brain can create double entendres with very little outré material.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Um..hm. Lemme see.

1. I love pizza, but it really doesn't love me. It causes me (frequently, but not every single time) an incredible amount of pain.

2. I love hot stuff, as in capsicum related items. I think this has nothing to do with enjoying the flavor, and everything to do with some leftover childhood macho messed up crap my Dad is responsible for. Even knowing this, I still love it. Must be the endorphins.

3. I'm rude, in person. Unless you're telling me something interesting, you might notice my attention wandering, blatantly. Few people hold my attention for any length of time. Ms_Issi is one of the few exceptions. I think I judge, and find them lacking fairly quickly. I know I do this to my co-workers. I probably come off as incredibly arrogant. Which leads me to...

4. I could give a rats ass what you think of me. I'll wear what I like, behave how I like, pretty much regardless of the circumstances. If I feel like being silly, I'll be silly. This doesn't mean I'm without social graces, or the ability to restrain myself if I feel it is appropriate. It just means if I want to be a clown/jackass in public, you need to get used to it.

5. I hate watching tv shows or movies where the comedy is based on someone doing something incredibly stupid/potentially embarrassing or humiliating. I think maybe I dislike them because I, personally, don't like to be embarassed or humiliated.

Hey..there's five, and I didn't even have to mention my arachnophobia. Oops. I just did.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

And yes, you'd think 4 and 5 were contradictory, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong. :P

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

No, no - I get it. It is perfectly okay for you to embarrass yourself, but it is not acceptable for others to do it for you. I completely understand.

After all, I'm the one that keeps a tiara in the glove box of my car. It is totally not heraldically correct. I only get a circlet on the weekends in the woods.