maharetr | 7 quirks meme

Several people on my flist have done this meme and said "no tagging, free for all!" so I hereby tag myself, because I managed to think of seven. Also, if you want to do it, consider yourself tagged :)

7 quirky things

I have to pick out what clothes I'm wearing on any given day the night before. I've learned this from hard experience: I'm just not coherent enough to make that particular choice within an hour or so of waking. More immediate choices like 'what shall I have for breakfast?' I have no problems with, but picking clothes I either choose badly, or I stumble around in a cloud of indecision, like I did for 20 minutes on the day of Harry Potter 7.

I love the smell of onions on my hands. If the scent is particularly strong, I'll avoid washing my hands after I've cooked something so I can fall asleep to the smell.

I have a major embarrassment/disappointment squick. A classic example: geek girl is invited to a 'costume party' by the popular girls, which is of course nothing of the sort. Or someone puts an large amount of effort into, or is anticipating event X, and when it arrives has their hopes/joy crushed. It's a strange squick: the one or two 'sexual humiliation' fics I've dared to venture into haven't triggered it at all, and then I'll get blindsided by it when someone's telling a joke that everyone else finds hilarious.

I love a huge amount of Christian rock/pop music. Third Day, Jars of Clay, Barlow Girl, Newsboys, Leigh Nash. Whenever I can, I have 98.5 on the radio at work. *shrug* No, I have no idea either. It's something about the joy and hope in most of the music that does it for me, even if the joy and hope is all: "Lord, you will bring the End Times.." This meme is all about the quirks, right?

I am a reforming hair eater, by which I mean, I used to suck on my hair and let it dry into a rigid clump. Now I just constantly run my fingers through it, or brush it over my cheek.

I've always had trouble falling asleep. I'm much, much better than I was, but I can remember vividly in kindergarten when we were all laid down for our afternoon naps, that I would crawl around under the sheet they gave us, pretending to be a turtle, or some animal with a shell, to keep myself entertained. The staff, if they caught me (or anyone else who couldn't sleep) would cover me entirely with the sheet and pat my head. This was the protocol back then; how it was meant to make a kid sleep, I have no idea. Another kindergarten memory: I used to insist on wearing my (elasticized) jeans back to front, because I couldn't understand the point of having pockets on the back where you couldn’t see them.

All throughout primary school I wore skirts (they were part of the uniform), and particularly in the latter years of primary school, years 6 and 7, I wore bike pants under them. This was before bike pants became an optional part of the uniform, although I think they are now for skirts. Once I hit high school, I switched exclusively to shorts, and never looked back, except for two or three days over summer this year (42 degrees!) where I couldn't exactly wear denim shorts to work (how I mourn the loss of these from the clothes shops) so wore a black skirt.

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