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Because I'm quirkful?
Feb. 11th, 2008 06:30 pmI'm doing this on behalf of Higashiyama, who was tagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iverin. He asked me to cover this one for him.
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it" OR ELSE YOU FAIL.
1. I hate hate HATE when things are embedded. Peas in mashed potatoes, that sort of thing. But sidewalks are the worst for this. I hate when wet leaves get embedded in uneven pavement. It's so gross! You can see little bits of the stone sticking up through holes that they make in the leaves when they dry. I also actually just don't like wet leaves sticking to the pavement in general - partly because it'll lead to the embedding situation. But also because they just sit in their own wetness and don't dry, and the sidewalk can't dry under them. So basically, as I walk around I'm always stopping to scuff leaves, if I don't feel too silly and don't have to be somewhere in a hurry. I don't like when people see me do it, though. But yeah. Wet leaves, I'll try to rearrange so they can dry and don't leave a little leaf-shaped wet patch. And dried, embedded leaves i'll try to scruff up so they come loose. Ugh.
2. I'm completely and ridiculously addicted to conversation hearts. Necco ones. It takes me two days to eat a full bag by myself if I try to pace myself a little.
3. My least favorite part on the human body, and my body in particular, is the sternum/breastbone area. OK, the breastbone is the sternum, but it seems to describe the area better. I'm really skinny and flat-chested so that area is convex in a horrible way. I actually have a basically find body image, and stuff like that - I don't worry about my appearance much. But that part of my body actually kind of disgusts me.
4. That said, I do get grossed out hearing anything about eyes that's not, like, "I got new glasses." Any type of eye-related problem or ailment will make me go dizzy and black out.
5. I really don't like poetry. And I tend not to like classic literature.
6. I compulsively break the bindings of book.s I like to be able to hold them open and read them easily. My mom's a libarian! Sorry, mom!
7. I like fun hats. I have a cowboy hat, a hat with earflaps and embroidery on the front, a crazy derby felt hat that looks like it's what Indiana Jones would wear if he were a rabbi, and I used to have this gorgeous turquoise straw milan fedora, but I couldn't take it abroad with me and my brother started wearing it and now I don't know where it is. :(
I tag. . . uhm.apostlepaul. And he'd better do it, the crazy bastard.
That got sort of negative. Eh, my weird quirks are all things that bother me randomly, I guess.
Hey, have any of you read Musui's Story? Either for, like, a Japanese history class (which is how I came across it) or on your own? It's AMAZING!! I seriously recommend it. It's the "story of a Tokugawa samurai" (the Tokugawa period being the Edo period, as dramas and Mago Mago Arashi seem to prefer saying) but he's not the usual, bureaucrat type samurai. No, Katsu (the author, it's his autobiography) is this freaking crazy mofo badass! The book is all about him beating people up and having adventures and at one point, he comes home from some mishap or another, and his dad says, "I think it would be useful for you to think about your life, to take some time for reflection and study."
And then locks him in a cage for three years.
It's just hilarious. When we're discussing it in class, I've been having a hard time not cracking up. He's such a character, it's awesome. Every single episode is about him beating up twenty men, or about how everyone around him respects him, or about some problem that only he can solve. And it's also a really fascinating and different perspective on the period, since he was so clearly not the ideal, and it's written in a pretty casual way, it seems.
Now I will just stop writing. I can do that sometimes.
iverin. He asked me to cover this one for him.List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it" OR ELSE YOU FAIL.
1. I hate hate HATE when things are embedded. Peas in mashed potatoes, that sort of thing. But sidewalks are the worst for this. I hate when wet leaves get embedded in uneven pavement. It's so gross! You can see little bits of the stone sticking up through holes that they make in the leaves when they dry. I also actually just don't like wet leaves sticking to the pavement in general - partly because it'll lead to the embedding situation. But also because they just sit in their own wetness and don't dry, and the sidewalk can't dry under them. So basically, as I walk around I'm always stopping to scuff leaves, if I don't feel too silly and don't have to be somewhere in a hurry. I don't like when people see me do it, though. But yeah. Wet leaves, I'll try to rearrange so they can dry and don't leave a little leaf-shaped wet patch. And dried, embedded leaves i'll try to scruff up so they come loose. Ugh.
2. I'm completely and ridiculously addicted to conversation hearts. Necco ones. It takes me two days to eat a full bag by myself if I try to pace myself a little.
3. My least favorite part on the human body, and my body in particular, is the sternum/breastbone area. OK, the breastbone is the sternum, but it seems to describe the area better. I'm really skinny and flat-chested so that area is convex in a horrible way. I actually have a basically find body image, and stuff like that - I don't worry about my appearance much. But that part of my body actually kind of disgusts me.
4. That said, I do get grossed out hearing anything about eyes that's not, like, "I got new glasses." Any type of eye-related problem or ailment will make me go dizzy and black out.
5. I really don't like poetry. And I tend not to like classic literature.
6. I compulsively break the bindings of book.s I like to be able to hold them open and read them easily. My mom's a libarian! Sorry, mom!
7. I like fun hats. I have a cowboy hat, a hat with earflaps and embroidery on the front, a crazy derby felt hat that looks like it's what Indiana Jones would wear if he were a rabbi, and I used to have this gorgeous turquoise straw milan fedora, but I couldn't take it abroad with me and my brother started wearing it and now I don't know where it is. :(
I tag. . . uhm.
apostlepaul. And he'd better do it, the crazy bastard.That got sort of negative. Eh, my weird quirks are all things that bother me randomly, I guess.
Hey, have any of you read Musui's Story? Either for, like, a Japanese history class (which is how I came across it) or on your own? It's AMAZING!! I seriously recommend it. It's the "story of a Tokugawa samurai" (the Tokugawa period being the Edo period, as dramas and Mago Mago Arashi seem to prefer saying) but he's not the usual, bureaucrat type samurai. No, Katsu (the author, it's his autobiography) is this freaking crazy mofo badass! The book is all about him beating people up and having adventures and at one point, he comes home from some mishap or another, and his dad says, "I think it would be useful for you to think about your life, to take some time for reflection and study."
And then locks him in a cage for three years.
It's just hilarious. When we're discussing it in class, I've been having a hard time not cracking up. He's such a character, it's awesome. Every single episode is about him beating up twenty men, or about how everyone around him respects him, or about some problem that only he can solve. And it's also a really fascinating and different perspective on the period, since he was so clearly not the ideal, and it's written in a pretty casual way, it seems.
Now I will just stop writing. I can do that sometimes.
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Date: 2008-02-12 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-02-12 12:34 pm (UTC)Heheh, I'm with you with the spine breaking. My friends all think I'm nuts, but hey, a book's meant to be read, man.
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Date: 2008-02-13 03:42 am (UTC)Yeah! It's hard to curl up with a book and just relax and enjoy it if you can't hold it! And also, if you don't break the spine, the cover gets really curved! And I hate that! Plus, they're just too hard to hold when you don't. I've only had one or two books fall apart on me!
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Date: 2008-02-13 01:04 pm (UTC)And that leaves in the pavement thing was different. :) What about if there was a leaf stuck in the pavement but it blew away before the cement hardened and now there's just a nice little impression? Does that still count?
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Date: 2008-02-13 01:11 pm (UTC)