Twyla and Heather Anne have tagged team tagged me into this meme. As I understand it, the rules are as follows: List five of your idiosyncrasies. dictionary.com defines idiosyncrasy as follows:
- A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
- A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
- An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
So, I hereby respond to this double-tag as follows.
- I despise public restrooms. I am, in most ways, not particularly germ obsessive (well, I do keep a little bottle of hand sanitizer in my shoulder bag and use it immediately after I exit the train each morning and evening). Public restrooms, however, disgust me. THEY DISGUST ME. I will usually rupture an internal organ before I will use one.
- I make a clicking noise with my tongue and the roof of my mouth when I am trying to construct what I'm saying. Where most people would say "uh", I click. I will say, for instance, "Remember yesterday when you asked me [click] [click] [click] to copy the scripts onto the [click] [click] [click] database server?" It sounds a little like the tiny bushman from The Gods Must Be Crazy.
- I insist, with fanaticism, that subroutines contain only one entry point and one exit point. Where many people, and many sample code snippets, will use multiple return statements or flow control statements to preliminarily pop the stack in exceptional cases, I will always use conditional statements and boolean expressions to pass all execution cases through the same flow so they always exit through the bottom of the subroutine code. I know, I know. That's so old school. Hey, what can I say?
- I love pulling weeds from my lawn. I love it. If I could be a "pulling weeds from the lawn" monk, I would be.
- I do not hate George W. Bush. I almost never agree with him, and I think he's made some terrible, terrible, terrible mistakes, but I think that, like most people, he is sincere in his positions. I also do not think he's dumb. I learned, when I was a youth minister and music minister in a small country church, that country people who speak like rednecks are not stupid. Language is just not a priority with them. I don't think he's intellectual at all, in fact I suspect he could be, like many, anti-intellectual. This is another point on which I disagree with him, but I neither hate him nor consider him stupid.
Okay. Now you know everything about me. Almost. I hereby tag the following people:
- Santa Claus
- Satan
- George W. Bush
- Football Legend Roger Staubach
- Kaiser Soze
Later. Love.
