Quirky valis quirks of quirkitude

[valis2]

There was a meme at some point about quirks. I started to quirkify an entry. Then pandora_nervosa tagged me. So here. Quirks!

• At work I have to do tons of cut and paste in Word, and the find/replace function is essential. Occasionally I use the wildcard option, and when I do, I often imagine I'm sending out a feral girl to savage the document, jumping into the words and screeching and growling as she runs on all fours through the pages. Sometimes she comes back with exactly what I'm looking for; sometimes she grabs nearly the whole document and drags it back to me, baring her ink-stained broken teeth, letters sticking out from underneath her dirty fingernails.


• My work involves five-digit numbers used to report medical procedures called CPT codes. (For example, 97010 is used to report having a hot or cold pack applied to a patient's body.) The description for one code always cracks me up: Prothrombin Time. Whenever I see that code, I imagine a medical superhero team shouting, "It's Prothrombin Time!" and shaking their pill jars furiously. Even sillier, it was mentioned on a recent CSI episode, and I nearly giggled myself off the couch.


• I am a fidgeter. A world-class fidgeter, if you will. My family sought to break me of it, and they succeeded. To a degree. Now I stealth fidget. If I'm seated while I'm talking to you, for instance, I will be making small right-angle triangles with my big toe. Or both big toes. Each corner of the triangle will have a musical tone and I will repeat this in my head over and over again as I move my toe(s) through their triangular paces. I also flex the muscles in my thighs or calves. All while listening to you and carrying on my side of the conversation. You probably had no idea, did you?


• iibnf is right. If you change your LJ name, I will completely forget who you are. I am so sorry. You could even begin every second entry with "OH HAI I USED TO BE NREXERSTEBBER, NOW I STEBBERNREXER" and I would still be lost on the very next entry. Even if it's only an hour later. I have successfully managed to remember two people who changed names, and that was only because one of them uses icons of herself and I actually know her in RL.


• When I used to work at Waldenhell, I would have Tuesday/Wednesday off. I worked every weekend because I didn't really mind, and I wanted to give other people the chance to do things with their loved ones. But I grew used to having days off during the week, and I began to like it very much. In fact, at this point, I absolutely abhor working on a Monday, and I will not if I can avoid it. In fact, I usually have Monday and Friday off, and just work Tues/Weds or T/W/Th. Having a day off during the week is quite wonderful; fewer people at the malls, at the bookstore, etc. Though there are slower people at the grocery store.


• Whenever I dispense liquid dishwashing soap at the kitchen sink, I am required by law to squeeze the bottle again when it's upright so that it dispenses a few teeny tiny bubbles.


• I eat my cereal without milk. Soggy cereal is an abomination.


• Must write in silence. Very few exceptions.


• Must craft with TV shows or movies or music. Very few exceptions.


• If I start watching a terrible movie halfway through, it will intrigue me far more than watching it from the beginning.


• When I work at the day job, the last day of the work week is Rock Out Day. That's the day where I listen to nü-metal in the afternoon. Generally I try not to, because I don't want to alarm everyone there with the noise coming out of my headphones (well, I do have nice headphones that work pretty well at filtering out the noise), but also, I don't want to get sick of Disturbed too quickly, y'know? I like to keep it special.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

haha! Yes, exactly!

I especially like watching movies I've seen a billion times, like Flash Gordon or the Black Swan. I mean, I don't actually watch them, more like I listen and look up for the good parts.

I don't generally listen to music much at home anymore--I live in an apartment, and I don't want to disturb the neighbors.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Must giggle at the Black Swan....