{"id":9220,"date":"2006-01-20T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/20\/five-weird-things-about-me.html"},"modified":"2006-01-20T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T20:01:03","slug":"five_weird_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/five_weird_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Weird Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seen this several places of late, most recently at DOF<\/a> and Les<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Given, of course, that much of my behavior appears to be weird, if not to myself, than to bystanders, this must perforce be a selective list …<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. I am rarely without reading material. And I am rarely not reading. About the only activities where it’s not likely to be happening is when driving, bathing (these days; I used to read in the shower when I was a kid), when chatting with others (if they can see me), or when Margie has seized my undivided attention in some fashion.\n

    To that end, I almost always have multiple books around in varying stages of reading — in the bathroom, downstairs, on the nightstand, in my closet, in my car (for reading after I’ve arrived someplace), in my briefcase, in my office, etc. It’s a big reason why I stopped tracking on my blog what book (singular) I was reading.<\/p>\n

  2. I have a terrible time getting rid of t-shirts. I usually choose t-shirts very carefully for their message and imagery, and I am loathe to get rid of them even at the extreme. I have t-shirts from college that I refuse to let loose from (or, for their own safety, wear).<\/p>\n
  3. I greatly enjoy tomatoes in a variety of forms except raw, in which state they make me gag. (Les mentioned this one, too, which endears him to me even further.)<\/p>\n

    Indeed, I don’t care for most raw fruits, either because of the taste, the variability in quality, or because I really don’t like getting my hands sticky (or combinations thereof). I particularly dislike avocados and bananas, in all their incarnations. I am, thus, very sympathetic to others who have food idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n

  4. For someone who seems to live in a state of perpetual messiness, I extraordinarily picky about neatness and arrangement of things when guests come to visit. If things aren’t just so, <\/em>I will fret terribly.<\/p>\n
  5. I have a tendency to wince over embarrassing things I did years, if not decades ago. They are not necessarily awful things, or shameful things, or major things, and it is highly probably that anyone I did them in front of has completely forgotten them, or even me. Nevertheless, having them called to mind by a similar situation will cause me literally to tense up, wince, cringe, and berate myself for being such an idiot (and then berate myself for being such an idiot for berating myself).<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Seen this several places of late, most recently at DOF and Les: Given, of course, that much of my behavior appears to be weird, if not to myself, than to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11351,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/the_world_catches_up_to_s.html","url_meta":{"origin":9220,"position":0},"title":"The world catches up to Star Trek","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Sep-07 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Any article about \"di-positronium\" and \"anti-matter\" and \"gamma-ray annihilation lasers\" has got to be worth reading! 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