Scatterings

#1- I just spent nearly an evening appeasing my Google Reader. How on earth is it in the triple digits again? I will be catching up soon, pinky swear!

#2- Thank you times a million for all your wonderful comments on my Bus Stop post. It's nice to feel like someone enjoys your observations, because sometimes stories don't seem to fly so well when they are thrown out in the middle of "real life" conversations.

As you all know, I'm recovering from my epic bad luck spell, and it feels like it may be taking a little of a toll on me. The other day, I actually said "Lately, it feels like writing may be the only thing I'm good at." So thanks for making me feel good at something.

#3- Part 2 of "Enquiring Minds Want to Know" is in the works. The answers to all your burning questions are soon to be revealed!

#4- And now I'm blushing...

Some amazing people from 20-something bloggers nominated me for a few (more than one?!) awards-- best title, best mid-sized blog, and most encouraging/uplifting.

I am seriously so flattered. It is a funny thing to walk down the street, anonymous as can be, and to know that someone a half a world over knows you better than the person beside you, and better yet, likes learning about you.

Plus, my competition? Is FIERCE (with a capital everything!). It includes some of my most favourite bloggers. So it is an honour and a half to be considered in the same league as them.

Thanks, again, for making me feel like this little evening habit of mind is something that really does matter.

(I know... I'm gushy)

#5- I was tagged by another of my most favourites, the fantastic Miriam D.

The rules for this particular meme?

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Share six (6) non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
Tag at least 3 people at the end of your post and link to their blogs.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I'm going to cheat a little, and add this to the slowly developing collection of 100 royal factoids about me...

#46- I've already shared my love of all things pickled here.

Given my pickle cravings, whenever I buy a new jar, I will promptly devour most of it within a few days.

But that last pickle? 

It remains in brine limbo for sometimes a few weeks, because I can't bear the notion of being officially out of pickles-- as such, it can only be consumed under the most supreme of pickle cravings.

#47- I have the writing of a 14-year old ditzy girl.

We're talking dramatic loops, frantic underlining, and the largest circle i dots ever.

It provides a pretty big contrast to the actual content of what I am writing (e.g., therapy notes).

Once, on an exam, my prof took the time to draw an arrow directed at my "i" in the margins of my response booklet, accompanied by the phrase "biggest lollipop i ever!". My adolescent handwriting was that compelling.

#48- To further ditzify your impressions of me... 

I use the descriptive term "over-the-top" at such a frequency that my boyfriend once suggested I should abbreviate it to "O.T.T."

As a joke, I began to use it in my speech with him.

But then it began seeping into my regular speech. 

I'm just waiting for my supervisor's response when I describe a client's behaviour as "so O.T.T."

#49- I hate socks. My toes feel too damn constrained in them. As such, as soon as the weather gets a little less rainy, I banish them to the depths of my dresser, and traipse around my apartment with my bare toes. 

As a side note, I always leave footprints on the passenger side windows of friend's cars.

#50- I am a very fidgety person. If given something with a label on it, I will peel it off in long strands. I will use my nails to inscribe random doodle in styrofoam coffee cups. I will shred napkins, and chew on stir sticks. I crunch ice cubes. All of this while completely enveloped in serious conversations.

#51- Rather than changing into a set of pajamas, I will often try to integrate part of my current outfit into sleep wear, usually whatever t-shirt or tank-top I am wearing, no matter how inappropriate for slumber. As long as it is reasonably comfy, it seems to me worth saving laundry space for.

Lastly, for tagging, I'm gonna pick a few of my newest reads who I would like to find out a little more about:

Deutlich

Autobiography of my feet

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