- I can recite the English alphabet backwards just as quickly as I can do it forwards.
- I tend to get nervous when speaking with someone one-on-one, but am perfectly comfortable in front of large audiences. I've been on stage with no script in front of nearly a thousand people with no hesitations whatsoever, but I find I can't articulate very well when I'm with just one other person.
- My right eye tends to tear up when it is even just mildly cold (it seems to start when it drops below -5 degrees). This has often lead to kindly strangers at bus stops asking me if everything was alright.
- Not much more to say about this, really.
- I can make a rhyme out of anything, a skill which I've exploited on way too many occasions. Back in CEGEP, I began my final Bioethics project with a sonnet in which I complained about how much I disliked my professor's teaching style. Though I criticized her openly in the poem, she found the idea to be brilliant, and only offered some minor rebuttals to my criticism while giving me 100% on the project. I also left a rhyme, a parody of an Eminem song, at the desk of one university professor, whose course I nearly failed because I capitalized the letter C in a filename. (Long, depressing story.) In my first week at work, I wrote and presented a poem to teach my team about the illegality of insider trading.
- I really dislike sand. I've never understood the attraction of beaches; I appreciate natural beauty, but I just don't find anything appealing about sandy beaches. I can honestly say that I don't enjoy being at the beach at all. (So to those of you who I'm taking to Florida, we're not going to any beaches.)
- Poor spelling bothers me way too much. If something is within my capacity to fix, I'll fix it. I still maintain my old MSA website, and whenever anyone posts a classified ad or forum post with bad spelling, I'll go into the database directly and make the corrections. I'll also fix Wikipedia entries, and even edit e-mails sent to me in Outlook when there are too many typos. (Although I don't know why Outlook lets you edit incoming e-mails - it seems like that should be a defect.)
Those of you who know me personally probably can identify other oddities, but overall I think I'm a pretty normal person. A normal person with a blog who doesn't like doing tags. Perhaps my aversion to tags, or almost anything else that's "popular", is a weirdness in itself. Or maybe everyone else is weird.
hmm. The right eye thing happens to me too...
ReplyDeleteYou're right, the rest of us ARE weird!
ReplyDeleteTags are fun in a cheesy, middle-school "Oooh, let's do this quiz and see what we're REALLY like!" kind of way :P
Also, I've noticed that females are a lot more prone to doing tags and tagging others... it's an odd kind of urge, to share our 'secrets' with the whole world.
Saira: Weirdo.
ReplyDeleteMouse: Yeah, I think it is more of a high school thing, much like those quizzes we used to forward to each other 10 years ago. But I didn't like them even back then!
I had hoped I'd hold on to my childhood wonder, but I think I'm becoming a bitter old man much too quickly.
I think I'm becoming a bitter old man much too quickly.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking along the same lines for myself last night, in that i'm becoming a little too grumpy for my liking these days... mainly TV drivel driving me nuts.
Eid Mubarak to you as well Faraz!
ReplyDeleteYou have some interesting skill set. I wonder what kind of work it would that would require you to recite an alphabet rhyme backwards in front of a large audience to mock them...
EID MUBARAK! :D
ReplyDeleteI can recite the English alphabet backwards just as quickly as I can do it forwards.
ReplyDeleteThat is a pretty unique skill! :)
- Baraka
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Humairah: Hmm, perhaps I should consider that, a backwards alphabet rhyme. But I wouldn't want to mock my audience.
ReplyDeleteAnonyMouse: Very late, but Eid Mubarak to you too. :)
Baraka: Thanks for visiting!
Didn't know you had done this tag, Faraz. Reciting the alphabet backwards *just as quickly as you can forwards* is impressive. I'm afraid I couldn't get past T without slowing down.
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