HABIT FORMING
Two days left in my holiday lull and I get hit with a meme.
Damn.
Frank tagged me with the "my 5 weird habits" meme, in which I am supposed to come up with said habits and tag five other bloggers, too. I came up dry, so I asked Fran what my weird habits are.
"You leave floss on the floor," she noted; why, yes, I do, but not on purpose. I use those Reach plastic floss things, and when I discard them I flip them towards the trash can in the bathroom. Sometimes I miss. Sorry. Weird? Not really, just careless. But we can put that into the "maybe" category.
"Your office is a pig sty." Well, yes, it is, because I have stacks of paperwork and piles of computer equipment and a zillion books and no place to put them short of buying a new house, and nowhere among those piles is a cache of cash. Besides, is having a messy office a "habit"? Borderline. And it's hardly weird. Next!
Fran ran out of ideas, so I thought some more, and came up with these:
I do the dishes because I don't really trust anyone else to do as thorough a job with them, even though Fran is likewise very thorough.
I like my daily routine to follow the same pattern every day: start work at 4:30 am, be done with certain tasks at certain times, go running at the same time every day, have lunch and dinner at the same time (and be done with all eating by 7)... Is that weird? Maybe OCD, but weird?
I carry a little bottle of hand sanitizer when I go running, just in case. And when I ripped up my leg the other day, it came in handy. So there.
OK, that's five- I throw floss, I can't organize my office, I do the dishes as part of some bizarre sanitary compulsion, I'm finicky about my daily routine, and I got the Purell thing going. I could add the compulsion to check my e-mail every 10 minutes or so via the Treo, but I do get a lot of business e-mail and I see a lot of people do that.
Oh, yeah, ketchup with turkey. Sorry.
Can I go now?
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