weird habits
Tagged by oursin, I wasn't sure if I can think of five strange things I do... my habits all seem quite sensible to me. However.
1. Reading all the time. Am confident that many people find this weird (though also that many of you won't). I read while cooking, getting dressed, cleaning, or anything I can do one-handed. And in particular I read while walking along the street, unless it's really too dark to see the page. So far I've only fallen over once - a treacherously low-lying plank - but I am regularly asked for directions, presumably on the grounds that only a person who knew the area very well wouldn't look where they are going. It's not true, and even when it is I am (a) extraordinarily bad at giving directions and (b) only ever remember (a) once someone has headed off the wrong way.
2. Not having a television. This doesn't seem odd to me, but it does get commented on.
3. Redecorating the study by picking off patches of paint with my fingernails (a long-term project).
4. In bookshops, I sometimes look for an author's books when I know I already own everything they've written - and in some cases that they are dead and all their letters, juvenilia and doodles and the letters of their family, friends and dog have been edited and published at least once and it would make the national news if a new manuscript were discovered - just in case.
5. I sing to myself a lot, and when someone asks what I'm singing, I often don't know. Frequently it turns out to be a hymn, because I know many many hymns, and usually several verses of them. (Generic Anglicanish school choir plus RC church choir plus Methodist grandmother.)
raptis suggested I put in that I want to be buried with my USB drive (it's got my thesis on it), but I don't plan to make a habit of that.
Don't think I'll tag anyone, but if any of you feel like doing it, I'd be interested.
1. Reading all the time. Am confident that many people find this weird (though also that many of you won't). I read while cooking, getting dressed, cleaning, or anything I can do one-handed. And in particular I read while walking along the street, unless it's really too dark to see the page. So far I've only fallen over once - a treacherously low-lying plank - but I am regularly asked for directions, presumably on the grounds that only a person who knew the area very well wouldn't look where they are going. It's not true, and even when it is I am (a) extraordinarily bad at giving directions and (b) only ever remember (a) once someone has headed off the wrong way.
2. Not having a television. This doesn't seem odd to me, but it does get commented on.
3. Redecorating the study by picking off patches of paint with my fingernails (a long-term project).
4. In bookshops, I sometimes look for an author's books when I know I already own everything they've written - and in some cases that they are dead and all their letters, juvenilia and doodles and the letters of their family, friends and dog have been edited and published at least once and it would make the national news if a new manuscript were discovered - just in case.
5. I sing to myself a lot, and when someone asks what I'm singing, I often don't know. Frequently it turns out to be a hymn, because I know many many hymns, and usually several verses of them. (Generic Anglicanish school choir plus RC church choir plus Methodist grandmother.)
raptis suggested I put in that I want to be buried with my USB drive (it's got my thesis on it), but I don't plan to make a habit of that.
Don't think I'll tag anyone, but if any of you feel like doing it, I'd be interested.