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harborshore) wrote2010-02-06 12:20 am
harborshore) wrote2010-02-06 12:20 am
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three quarters and a map
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halflinen:
- List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.
1. I can't sit on a desk chair like a normal person. I'm always curling up weirdly, sitting on one of my feet, kneeling on the seat, or tilting oddly. And I switch positions really, really often.
2. I read ridiculously fast. When I was a kid, other kids would think I was lying about reading as fast as I did, and so they'd make me read a page and tell them what it said. This is less about aptitude and more about diligent practice (or at least it's equal parts of both)--I was very bored in class in elementary school, so I'd leave a book open in my desk and tilt it open so I could read during class.
3. I own between 32 and 37 scarves. The uncertainty about the exact numbers is because I keep giving them away AND buying new ones. I also own about ten pairs of colorful/interestingly patterned/boringly monochrome knee socks. I have a scarves-and-socks problem.
4. When I have to go through painful medical/dental procedures, I recite "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" and other super-long Dylan songs in my head.
5. A strand of my hair can hold 56 grams of weight. This is unusually strong, they told me at the Children's Museum (I believe I was 11 at the time). So I have Good Hair? Or something? (On the other hand, I have Troublesome Teeth.)
6. I'm bilingual. (I know, you're all shocked now.) It's even more apparent at the moment, because I get to do my coursework in English this semester, so the spoken patterns are coming back as well (they always recede a little the longer I'm in Sweden). ETA: I should clarify--this makes my bilingualism messier, not neater. It's harder to keep the languages separate when I'm using them in, uh, close proximity to one another.
7. I had a hearing problem until I was twelve, when I somehow grew in a way that tilted my skull differently and allowed the channels (?) in my ear to become more open. Or that's how it was explained to me, at least.
Oh, I'm supposed to tag people, am I? Um, very randomly (and only do it if you want to!):novembersmith, blindmouse, erraticonstilts, fleurdeliser, torakowalski, lordessrenegade and jubella.
halflinen:- List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.
1. I can't sit on a desk chair like a normal person. I'm always curling up weirdly, sitting on one of my feet, kneeling on the seat, or tilting oddly. And I switch positions really, really often.
2. I read ridiculously fast. When I was a kid, other kids would think I was lying about reading as fast as I did, and so they'd make me read a page and tell them what it said. This is less about aptitude and more about diligent practice (or at least it's equal parts of both)--I was very bored in class in elementary school, so I'd leave a book open in my desk and tilt it open so I could read during class.
3. I own between 32 and 37 scarves. The uncertainty about the exact numbers is because I keep giving them away AND buying new ones. I also own about ten pairs of colorful/interestingly patterned/boringly monochrome knee socks. I have a scarves-and-socks problem.
4. When I have to go through painful medical/dental procedures, I recite "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" and other super-long Dylan songs in my head.
5. A strand of my hair can hold 56 grams of weight. This is unusually strong, they told me at the Children's Museum (I believe I was 11 at the time). So I have Good Hair? Or something? (On the other hand, I have Troublesome Teeth.)
6. I'm bilingual. (I know, you're all shocked now.) It's even more apparent at the moment, because I get to do my coursework in English this semester, so the spoken patterns are coming back as well (they always recede a little the longer I'm in Sweden). ETA: I should clarify--this makes my bilingualism messier, not neater. It's harder to keep the languages separate when I'm using them in, uh, close proximity to one another.
7. I had a hearing problem until I was twelve, when I somehow grew in a way that tilted my skull differently and allowed the channels (?) in my ear to become more open. Or that's how it was explained to me, at least.
Oh, I'm supposed to tag people, am I? Um, very randomly (and only do it if you want to!):
novembersmith, blindmouse, erraticonstilts, fleurdeliser, torakowalski, lordessrenegade and jubella.
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7) My little brother was the same. He was pretty deaf especially in one ear, and now it's not really noticeable at all.
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7) Oh man, awesome! I thoroughly bewildered my doctors while taking my yearly hearing test, enough so that I had to do it twice, after which they said, "You don't need your hearing aids anymore." It was right before Christmas, too.
PS. Did you read the latest Red Robin? *__*