What are your idiosynchrasies?

[Kevy Baby]

Because of sleep apnea, I had to switch from sleeping on my stomach (the ONLY way I could previously sleep) to sleeping on my side (tried sleeping on my back, but there was no way that was gonna fly).

Besides the fluffy feather pillow under my head, I have a body pillow betwixt my feet and legs and a third pillow to hug.

Alsthough I cannot sleep on my back, when I first go to bed (or after I read for a while), I enjoy fluffing up my pillow and placing it on it's side, placing my head down on it so that the pillow then wraps around my heads (and most importantly; ears), and placing an eye pillow over my eyes. Sort of a slight sensory depravation to help wind down the day. I guess it is semi-meditation to help me get to sleep (something I hadn't of until I typed this out).

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Ok, here's my major idiosynchrasy (read: mental instability):

You know how you have a bunch of pens and pencils? Way too many to ever use? And just when you start using them up you get a bunch more for free? And sometimes they just disappear far before you've used them up?

I hate that.

I love it when you use up a pencil. Get it so damn small that it hurts your hand to use it. You get to actually throw it out! Same goes for pens. A really trusty pen that is with you for 5 years and dies a natural death is a great thing. At my old job I had actually seperated out the small pencils and used them exclusively. I think I used up 5 pencils in my time there - awesomeness.

I dont' know why I actually attribute some emotion to this, but I do.

Same goes for notepads and many other consumables. You know when you pull a Q-tip out of the box, and another Q-tip clings to it and falls to the bathroom floor? Then, of course, you pick it up and throw it away - no way that floor Q-tip is getting into your ear. Well isn't that kind of sad? Cotton grown, trees milled, bleaching and processing and packaging, only to never reach usefulness, to be discarded before its time? I swear, it actually makes me sad (though only really minutely sad, obviously).

Now you know!

I am always writing with a pen until it fails or leaks. In fact, I'm to the point where I'm going to have to order more (my favorites are special-order only if you want them by the box, which I do).

That doesn't mean I don't have a flowerpot full of "free" pens on the kitchen counter. I do. And I can't throw them away because that's a waste. People keep giving me pens. I know I use them a lot, but come on--sometimes I like to buy myself a really nice one. I feel guilty because of that flowerpot.

If all the pens in my home except for the Pilot Precise V5's and V7's, my feather quills, and my Mont Blanc disappeared one day, I don't think I'd miss them. In fact, I'd have to go buy a small plant for that flowerpot.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I have nearly a fetish for pens. Colors, tip styles, barrels. And don't get me started on calligraphic pens! Usually my class notes are in several different colors, often on the same day. Next day is another set of colors.

With my current class I've mostly stuck to green though I have two different green pens.

[Freaky Tiki]

I very much prefer pens to pencils, but I make too many mistakes, and those erasible pens are an abomination.

[CoasterMatt]

I can't buy any electronic equipment without doing some kind of mod to it...

Even the washer and dryer aren't safe

[CoasterMatt]

I sleep much better on the floor than on the bed

[Freaky Tiki]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I sleep much better on the floor than on the bed

If I can't sleep I will either move to the floor, or sleep completely backwards on my bed. It works....

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I can't buy any electronic equipment without doing some kind of mod to it...

Even the washer and dryer aren't safe

What did you do to them?

[Matterhorn Fan]

Does anyone here need a pen?

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

Does anyone here need a pen?

Lol! Do you 'acquire' them randomly, or actually purchase them by bulk? I do both. Somehow, there never seems to be one in my purse when I need it, though.