Habits and Facts

Got tagged by Slublog. I don’t normally do these things, but this one seemed particularly easy: just state 8 habits/facts about yourself. Plus, current events weren’t inspiring me much.

1. Habit. Slublog and Anwyn say they like to read while they eat. So do I, but I also read almost every time I go in the bathroom. This involves more sitting than the male is normally accustomed to, but it’s well worth it to me. Almost all my recreational non-fictional reading is done in the bathroom – I work my way through books 3 or 4 pages at a time, generally by opening them at random and reading wherever I land. I don’t put fiction in the bathroom, of course, because then I’d never come out.In the bathroom now? Laura Ingraham’s Shut Up and Sing and Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail.
2. Fact. My brain has a fair amount of RAM, but a crappy hard drive. I do well when I need to hunker down and absorb and process a lot of information, but 3 months later I have to re-absorb everything.
3. Habit. My head is alway hot, particularly my forehead. Whenever I have a cold drink, I always rub it on my forehead. I don’t even notice that I’m doing it, but on first meetings I get a lot of odd looks.
4. Fact. I eat fairly slowly, unless the food is really hot or really cold. Then I’m compelled to eat it before it changes temperature, which requires gobbling it down. I hardly ever get brain freeze, and I can eat very hot foods while other people are huffing and puffing on them, so I’m genetically equipped to accommodate this foible.
5. Fact. I was on the Debate Team in high school. It was very demanding and fun. I think that’s why I engage trolls so avidly.
6. Fact. Until I went to college, I never went to a school for more than 2 years. From 7th – 11th grade I went to 5 different schools in 5 years. That state of unsettledness followed me when I graduated from college and moved to Southern California – in 18 years there I had 10 addresses.Since we left SoCal, we’ve had 5 addresses in 7 years, but I think we’re settling in at our current address for awhile.
7. Habit. I’m a belly sleeper. It was a habit I developed as a kid to reduce my vulnerability to vampires. Easy neck access? Not on me, chumps.
8. Fact. I’m a night owl. I rarely go to bed before 2 am, and usually prefer to stay up until 4 am. This works well when I can sleep in, but now that I have morning kid responsibilities, it means I have to be up at 6:30 am. That screws up my schedule enough that I keep inverting it – I sleep during the day and work at night.Not very popular with the me or the family.

Since I pretty much know the same people Slublog knows, I won’t tag anybody at this time, though I reserve the right to do so in the future.

UPDATE: Well, why not? I’ll go ahead and tag NiceDeb and Mr. Minority, since they commented on this thread. And I’ll throw in Mrs. Peel, S. Weasel, and Purple Avenger for good measure.

UPDATE II: Mr. Minority ponies up.

UPDATE III: S. Weasel sticks feathers out of his hiney to compensate for his ugly feet. Well…that was my takeaway message, anyway.

UPDATE IV: And Mrs. Peel antes.