Seven Random Facts

[mathnerd]

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1. I love the taste of coffee, tea (black and herbal), schorles, cocktails, most alcohols, wine, and some beers, but I hate to drink any kind of fluid. It takes a lot of work for me to get two glasses of liquid into my body a day, let alone the ridiculous number my doctors recommend.
2. I cannot live without music. I turn on German radio (SWR3), iTunes, YouTube, Grooveshark, Pandora, or my iPod as soon as I get up. I do not leave the house without my iPod. I generally have music on to sleep. Also, homework does not get done unless I am listening to music with headphones. No music, or music on speakers, will distract me from my focus beyond belief. I blame the ADD.
3. Despite having memorised the majority of the information in the Harry Potter books, and being a firm believer in canon (no films for this nerd, thank you!), I have not read a HP book in English in a few years. I exclusively read HP fanfic, generally within a pretty limited set of pairings. Oddly enough, I find these stories more 'real' than the books at times.
4. When I was a child, I bit my nails to the quick and beyond. They would routinely bleed and leave me almost incapable of using my fingertips from pain. I successfully kicked the nail-biting habit in my very late teens, only to start biting my cuticles. I've considered kicking that habit, but I'm more than a little afraid to find out what my oral fixation would move to (we've already done the chewing up the inside of the mouth and the biting hair until it becomes brittle and breaks habits). Considering that bitten cuticles hurt less, impact daily life less, and are less noticeable than bitten nails, I'll stick to this compulsion for now.
5. I get annoyed rather quickly, forgive just as quickly, am slow to truly anger, have difficulty holding grudges, but will cut people out of my life if absolutely necessary for my own sanity (after giving about a million chances). Once cut, they really have no chance of getting back in. Ever.
6. My friends range in age from 13 to late 50s, early 60s. This is nothing new. My parents always commented that my friends tended to run between fifteen years my junior and forty years my senior. I hope it never changes. I love having friends all over the Map of Life.
7. You can ask me any question, no matter how personal, and I won't get offended. I do, however, reserve the right to tell you it's none of your business and leave it at that.