Habitual Archeology
I‘ve been tagged before, but stood mute and stolid–like a moss covered statue oblivious to everything but its own ancient crumbling thoughts. I’ll shake that reverie for a moment and play the game that Ariel (BittersweetLife) has charged me with. Perhaps it is the involuntary joyous flush that covers my face in my mind’s eye when I hear myself described as “eccentric,” but whatever the case you’ll soon have knowledge of five of my weirdest habits.
1) I collect books in a manner bordering on manic. This habit has really blossomed as of late, and I find myself buying multiple copies of the same book, if it is desirable enough, so that I can have an “extra copy just in case, or for notes, or to give away.” I’m not in bad shape here yet, but I know danger is lurking around the corner. Read this excellent article and you’ll know why (since when were remains a literary collectible?).
2) I habitually break habits I consider to habitual. This has got to be weird, if I feel like I am too addicted to coffee I stop drinking it, for weeks on end. If I feel like I listen to music too much, I stop all together. If I feel like I’m playing my guitar too consistently in particular style, I try desperately to play it differently. If I feel like I’ve watched television or movies too frequently I ignore them completely for a great length of time.
3) As far as it is my control I am always exactly on time (2-5 minutes early or slightly more, depending on the nature of the appointment). I time things throughout my day down to the minute, but always allow a little extra leeway just in case. This habit may not be that weird, but it is very pronounced.
4) I have recently begun to gently gnaw on the insides of my cheeks when in thought.
5) I often refuse to give in to cravings, this isn’t always the case, but probably enough to be considered somewhat habitual. Tonight, for example, I had a fierce (nearly overwhelming) craving for the Chicken Provencal at La Chatelaine; and yet I fought it off, using copious amounts of salsa covered tortilla chips to blunt the edge of my hunger and thereby ease the craving of my empty stomach.
Alas, portions of my carefully guarded eccentricities have been deshrouded, and I hope I don’t share this fate alone. Naturally you may disregard what happens next, but do consider carefully.
I’m rather curious as to 5 weird habits of:
The Sasquatch
SquirrleyMojo
and
Euhemerist
I just remembered perhaps one of most bizarre habits of old. I used to deconstruct the numbers on license plates. Say there was a plate such as the following: GSI 397. I would add 3 to 7 (10) and then 9 to 10 (19) and then 9 to 1 (10). I might leave it at that, or I might recognize that I had gotten two tens and that makes 20, which since 0 doesn’t count really equals 2. I did this bizarre deconstructive arbitrary math constantly. The strangest thing about it was that I was telling a fellow philosophy student (N. Croy) about it one day and he confessed that he did almost the exact same thing! It was one of the weirdest moments, much like the Herman Shwartzkopf moment I had with A. Files several summers ago.
(Schwartzkopf)
I don’t know five curious habits of my own at the moment, but here are my responses to yours:
1) I’m the same way. Only now that I have a job working at a library again, I can take advantage of convenient delivery coupled with a high speed scanner which affords me the ability to store volumes of literature (and whatnot) on CD/DVD. Wahoo!
2) I’m the opposite. I revel in my addictions. I define myself by them. “Him?” they ask. “Oh he’s the guy who drank an entire bottle of ketchup in one sitting.”
3) Punctuality is my greatest attribute. Which is why I am single. And make very little money.
4) I gently gnaw on straws and pencils and pieces of styrofoam. Perhaps not so gently now that I think of it.
5) I am a bad person and am thus incapable of resolve in the face of wanton desire. Ho Ho’s do me in every time. Like right now, for instance. mmmmm Ho Ho’s
…ok. I’ll write mine down on my own blog
I am feeling pangs of conscience because I didn’t mention #1 on my own list. But then I feel better, because I’m not yet such a bibliophile that I buy multiple copies of a book at once. No, I do it after a seemly length of time has elapsed, thus giving the appearance of wise consideration…
Hey…nice blog!!
thank you Sphinx, I hope you come back.