The idiosyncrasy meme from my flist

1. I work very hard to appear laid back. Inside, I'm usually screaming and flailing. Outside, it's, "Okay, and how does that make you feel?"

2. I hate fiddling with my hair. It's very fine and straight, and I wore it mid-back to waist-length for years, so I could wash it and twist it up with a big hairpin or clips. I hate hair on my face, it makes me nuts, and every short haircut I'd ever had fell in my face. I found product, and extra short hair. No hair touching my brow or falling in my face, yay! Now I'm resenting having to keep it cut.

3. If I never taste sugar or chocolate, I can avoid sugar or chocolate. I have the physical chemistry for alcoholism, I just never drank enough to convert from sweets to alcohol. It's all sugar, after all.

4. I haven't listened to pop music since the 80s. I couldn't tell BNL from NIN without a scorecard. I haven't listened to radio since our local NPR went all-talk, all the time. I have no use for an iPod, since I don't listen to "songs." I have favorite cds, but they're thunderstorms or whale song, cello concertos, flute and oboe, the occasional aria or symphony. The odd Celtic folksong, Gregorian chant or Hildegard--nothing with words I can understand. Or, you know, Aerosmith.

5. I've never been drunk. I didn't drink at all until I was well into my 20s--I knew I was an addictive personality and didn't want to have to deal with it. I carried around a glass of ice water at parties and got giddy all on my own, so nobody knew I wasn't shitfaced.

The idiosyncrasy meme from my flist

1. I work very hard to appear laid back. Inside, I'm usually screaming and flailing. Outside, it's, "Okay, and how does that make you feel?"

2. I hate fiddling with my hair. It's very fine and straight, and I wore it mid-back to waist-length for years, so I could wash it and twist it up with a big hairpin or clips. I hate hair on my face, it makes me nuts, and every short haircut I'd ever had fell in my face. I found product, and extra short hair. No hair touching my brow or falling in my face, yay! Now I'm resenting having to keep it cut.

3. If I never taste sugar or chocolate, I can avoid sugar or chocolate. I have the physical chemistry for alcoholism, I just never drank enough to convert from sweets to alcohol. It's all sugar, after all.

4. I haven't listened to pop music since the 80s. I couldn't tell BNL from NIN without a scorecard. I haven't listened to radio since our local NPR went all-talk, all the time. I have no use for an iPod, since I don't listen to "songs." I have favorite cds, but they're thunderstorms or whale song, cello concertos, flute and oboe, the occasional aria or symphony. The odd Celtic folksong, Gregorian chant or Hildegard--nothing with words I can understand. Or, you know, Aerosmith.

5. I've never been drunk. I didn't drink at all until I was well into my 20s--I knew I was an addictive personality and didn't want to have to deal with it. I carried around a glass of ice water at parties and got giddy all on my own, so nobody knew I wasn't shitfaced.