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Because you bastids always post old cars.Then why don't you win any guess that headlight/taillight games?
Strange, I’ve had the opposite experience – I used to be absolutely terrified of heights, but over the last two years I’ve gotten over it somehow.1. I'm really, properly scared of heights, but never used to be. Several dreams during my teenage years of falling off climbing walls probably kick-started it.
I have a suitemate who has exactly the same sleep schedule as you. I can stay up late pretty easily, but it’s not something that I enjoy, because I’m a sun worshipper.1) Whenever I get the chance, I turn nocturnal. […]
Since I don't have school until the 15th and usually work weekends, I went to bed around 6am yesterday, and woke up at 4:30pm.
I have a friend who’s a Furry (more accurately, a Furvert). It’s not something I’ve ever understood, but you know my mantra from the homosexual threads: live and let live.3) I was a Furry in elementary and middle school, and I would probably still be one today if I didn't totally suck ass at drawing.
In fact, you remind me a lot of him – Furry, he’s semi-nocturnal, and doesn’t really like interacting with people.
Same here. I didn’t mention it in my first post, because I don’t technically qualify as PLMD-inflicted, but my legs do jerk at night, about once a week. It always happens when I’m falling asleep (in a semi-unconscious state), never when I’m awake or fully asleep.I can also relate a bit to the similar Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, as mentioned in the RLS article. It's by no means frequent, but as often as once a day my upper body will suddenly and randomly jerk, for no apparent reason. I also seem to suddenly and randomly jerk my legs and sometimes my arms many nights when I'm trying to get to sleep -- again, though, I've only noticed this on an average of once every couple of nights.
Woah, that’s so cool!2. My eyes function independently.
Wow, that’s a really insightful post. 👍 Thank you for sharing that with us.What the heck, I've been here for 5 years, what better way to celebrate: […]
One note about Buddhism though: my mom is a Buddhist, and she prays every night, so do you happen to know what that’s all about? I’ve never asked her because I have a feeling she wouldn’t really know herself (she seems to be a Buddhist only because she was raised as one).
Last year I tutored someone who has much the same way. He had something akin to ADD (he never divulged what exactly it was), so he had a terrible time with math – I had to be more patient with him than of my other tutorees, but it was easy since he was honestly trying to concentrate and he was the nicest kid. Hardest worker I’d ever seen, and it was because he wanted to overcome his condition.3. I'm not a math mind at all. I wish I was - it would make econ classes a lot easier. I'm a much better writer than I am problem solver, it seems. Actually, this probably has something to do with number one.
My troop wasn’t terribly religious, but just enough that I felt uncomfortable. One big problem was that the guy who was doing the Personal Fitness merit badge was really religious, and he was the only guy in the district doing that merit badge at the time.I'm an eagle scout, and you know I'm an atheist. My troop didn't focus on the religious aspect of the boy scouts, and I think in general the scouts have a don't ask - don't tell policy. But, as you point out, you are technically required to be religious to complete the boy scouts, so if I was discovered, they could revoke my Eagle Scout status.
I figured, I wanted Eagle Scout enough that I'd overlook the religiousness of scouting. Like I said, my troop helped a lot. If I had been in a religious troop I think I'd have shopped around to different troops before I found one that didn't take it so seriously.
Like I said, I wish it hadn’t been an impediment – going to that Jamboree was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had – but it was weighing heavily on my mind every single day at that time, so I finally had to shrug off the weight.
Ah, that’s something I forgot to mention in my first post – I have several friends who accuse me of having OCD, although I truly believe that I’m just a perfectionist (the normal kind, as described in that article, not the neurotic kind – I’m very realistic in my goals). I’ve done my reading on OCD, and I simply don’t fit many of the criteria.1 - My dad is an obsessive compulsive, my brother is starting to show signs of being one as well, I'm determined not to be but by the same token I think sometimes I might just be becoming obsessively compulsive in the opposite way.
Why am I not surprised that you posted that?5. I'm turned off by dyed hair, fake breasts, and shaved pubic areas