Actually, quirkyknitgirl tagged me on this over a month ago. I usually don’t do memes but my blog’s been lean on content lately. So here are the requisite random and/or weird facts about myself:
1. I do not own any of the following:
Sneakers
Shorts
Sweatpants
Regular t-shirts
Baseball caps
Pajamas
2. In the past month I have spent more nights in a hotel room than I have in my own home, and I have spent more workdays on a ship than in an office.
3. I prefer riding in the backseat to riding shotgun.
4. When I lived alone, I didn’t have a TV or a microwave. The girl I was dating became frustrated that she couldn’t do “normal” things in my apartment, so she gave me a TV for my birthday and a microwave for Christmas. Both appliances sit in the basement unused today.
5. Given the choice between ice cream and tofu, I will invariably choose the tofu.
6. I hate when people ask me questions like, “What’s your favorite TV show/movie/music/food/etc?” I don’t watch enough TV to have a favorite show, I haven’t seen enough movies to have a favorite film, my music tastes are obscure and hard to place into a defined genre, and I like so many different foods that being asked to choose just one fills me with intense anxiety. One of these days I should develop a list of stock answers to these things so people don’t think I’m strange.
7. I won’t ask people what they do for a living. Since many people are unemployed, working illegally, or working at a job they don’t enjoy or are not particularly proud of, I think it’s impolite to inquire. Besides, there’s more to a person than their job, and those are the things I would usually rather hear about! I realize this makes me an anomaly in DC.
November 13, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Domo for sharing! (I deny anything about you being weird by the way. I consider you “normal” and most of the rest of humanity broken. These are just interesting facts!) Hope you don’t mind a few replies (I’m unusually hyper.)
4. Wow. I expected the no TV/microwave thing and that’s cool (you have shown me the joy of a toaster oven vs. a microwave)…but the fact that she got you those things as a “gift.” My inner sense of taste is somehow offended by this. It’s like if you prepared one of your glorious feasts, and she said “I want McDonalds.” Crom.
5. Where does tofu ice cream fit into this? (ok, I’m being a bit of an ass
6. You’re not strange. You’re superior. If people can’t handle your lack of labels and lists, good riddance.
7. That’s a good point (re: it being rude). Sadly most people can’t seem to make themselves more than their job anymore. I’m going to replace the words “an anomaly” with “awesome.”