Omigawsh, I almost forgot

About the idiosyncrasies meme from Karen. It had completely slipped my mind until just this moment - and I'm not altogether sure why or how it slipped back in.

Anyway . . .

(I) I have a problem with eating meat off the bone. Like picking up a piece of chicken and using my teeth to tear the flesh or picking up a pork chop and gnawing the last little bit of meat from that bone all pork chops seem to have. That just bothers me. I think chicken strips and breast filets are the greatest invention of this century. I used to have a problem with cutting meat from the bone as well, but I am happy to report I'm almost completely over that.

(II) Professionally, I'm a 'get it done now' type of person. Personally, everything can wait until tomorrow. I'm the world's greatest procrastinator when it comes to my personal life.

(III) The older I get the more I hate planning things. Like what I want to do on my vacation. How am I supposed to know in January what I want to do in July? Even if I could figure out what I wanted to do that early, what's to say I want to still do it when the time comes? The older I get, the more I discover the joys of doing things spur of the moment.

(IV) I'm a mimic. It was something that started while I was involved in drama in high school and we had to watch people and learn how they walked and talked, that sort of thing, and then get on stage and 'perform' these people to see if the others in the class could tell who we were being. To this day, I still catch myself suddenly adopting the mannerisms or speech patterns of someone I'm with.

(V) Keeping the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right when I eat instead of setting the knife down and switching the fork to my right hand. This is only idiosyncratic behavior in the US since most Europeans eat that way.