Tagged!
Adam tagged me, so here you go. For your reading enjoyment:
Five things you (probably) don't know about me:
1. I had never written a line of code in my life before I decided to be a Computer Science major. My intuition on that was remarkably good.
2. I have a varsity letter... in Math. This means I was on the Math Team. Yeah, I know.
3. When I was little, my dad would put my "blankie" in the dryer so it was warm for me when he tucked me in. To this day, hot laundry is one of my favorite things in the world. Jamie puts towels in the dryer for me when I'm in the shower and wraps me up in them when I get out. Blissful.
4. The texture of wet wood makes my skin crawl.
5. I really like peanut M&Ms, but this has very little to do with the way they taste and everything to do with the process of eating them. I put one into my mouth, bite down just enough to liberate it from its candy shell, push the nut aside and eat the shell, then retrieve the nut and carefully split it apart. On one side of the split nut, there is a seed. It's small and kind of sticks out the top a little - you've all seen what they look like. The seed is way crunchier than the rest of the peanut. Once I've liberated it (which is successful maybe 60% of the time), I usually keep it behind my lip while I chew and swallow the nut, then I savor the tiny crunchiness.
Yes, I'm aware of how OCD that is.
I'm supposed to tag people to do this, now. That said, I think most everyone already has done it. So I'll tag Matt Mower andJoeP and anyone on my LJ friends list who hasn't already done this.
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I eat peanut m&ms in exactly the same way. I also find the little seedy bit when eating unchocolatey peanuts, even to the extent of dividing the peanuts into 3 piles - whole peanuts, half peanuts with "seed" and half peanuts without - so that I can easily get through the boring half peanuts without and leave the good ones to savour.
It's definitely not OCD though. Now, where's my protractor, my mousemat isn't lining up with the edge of the desk again...
I always thought I was the only freak who cared about the seed. It i somehow heartening to know I'm not.
I knew about the hot laundry! Ha ha!
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Beth Ballingall
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Heh, I have my own Peanut M&M eating process. Let the shell melt a little, then bite it, then suck all the chocolate off, then do a similar peanut dissection. I always find it interesting to discover whether or not the skin is still on the peanut; that makes for a different textural sensation each time.