Tagitude

Cristina over at Little Wilds has tagged me for one of them meme thingies -- it's very sweet of you, Cristina, especially since I've essentially dropped out of sight for the past month. So without further ado, here is step one:

1. Link back to the person who tagged you (done).
2. Mention the rules on your blog (in progress).
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours (see below).
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking to them (am going to break this one because the only people I know who haven't already been tagged will just roll their eyes and move on).
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers' blogs letting them know they've been tagged (see above).
   

The problem with completing step 3 is: Quirks? What quirks? I have no quirks. I'm just normal, me. OTHER people have quirks. But if you really insist:

1. I have a hatred bordering on the pathological for the word "utilized".
2. When embarrassed, caught out or otherwise feeling on the spot I spend the next couple of minutes humming nonchalantly to myself (I only noticed this one recently).
3. I make my tick marks backwards - it's the only sensible option for the lefthanded.
4. I genuinely like Bollywood movie tunes. When news and talk radio is seriously getting me down - which rarely takes more than five minutes in the car - Radio Lotus always cheers me up.
5. When a rat runs over my foot I scoop it up and cuddle it instead of shrieking and jumping on a chair (this will not apply in the case of rats I don't actually own).
6. My earring collection spans 20 years, during many of which my fashion sense was, shall we say, broken. But I can't bring myself to get rid of any of them; not even the dayglo wooden fish.
   

So there you go. Thanks for helping me break the drought, Cristina!