Study
I'm on my third cup of coffee, my eyes are red, my fingers covered in highlighter stains... Don't you just love that day-before-an-exam feeling?

Actually, it's not so bad. It feels nice to kick my brain about a little, see what it's capable of - usually I'm pleasantly surprised. Right now, though, I'm taking my umpteenth breather of the day to post a teeny tiny meme, courtesy of Ms. Alyndabear. There is always room for a little more self-indulgence, right?

Seven odd facts about me:

1) I have a most uncanny sense of smell.
I'm like a dog: someone's smell can determine whether or not I can stand talking to them for a longer period of time. This is unfortunate, seeing as some of my favourite people have kind of funky smells. My least favourite people, too, often have bad smells. The rancid stench of sweat, age and bad cologne just gave me one more reason to stay away from my old boss as much as possible. I am also extremely picky when it comes to perfume - you can imagine my frustration when my signature scent was discontinued.

2) I do not chew gum, eat liquorice or like any kind of sweets tasting of mint.
After Eights have grown on me (it took a long time), but other than that, no thank you. This is very strange, because in general I dislike very few foods. All the ones I do dislike, though, are in the 'sweets' category. I'm amazed that I'm not skinnier. Someone should ship me over to MIT and have me studied.

3) I prefer skirts to trousers.
This hasn't always been the case, but about a year after I finished high school I lost a ridiculous amount of weight, forcing me to get a whole new wardrobe. I bought a bunch of skirts and only one pair of trousers (which ended up being a bad fit, so they went to the Salvation Army). Today I have three pairs of trousers (two of which I had to buy for choir concerts, and the last acquired entirely by accident last summer). In comparison, I own somewhere around forty-five skirts.

4) My hands are very sensitive to heat.
Whenever I get my coffee in a glass or in a take-away paper cup, I look completely ridiculous, because I have to keep my fingers at the very top of the glass/cup, making it easy to spill and practically impossible to drink. Also, this is the reason I dislike doing the dishes.

5) I have a dark scar on my left hip.
I was ten years old. My family and I were in Germany, at this sort of Water World-ish place with water slides and a bunch of different pools. I tried one of the really big water slides, and got to the bottom, but before I had the chance to come up to the surface the next person - an adult - came down the slide and landed on top of me, so that I hit my hip on the swimming pool floor. It bled like crazy, and I had a funny walk and a purple hip for weeks afterwards. Also, I don't think I've been on a water slide since.

6) The first band I liked was Belle and Sebastian.
If you don't count listening to the Spice Girls, Aqua or Cleopatra in primary school (when you basically listen to what the other kids think is cool), this was my first encounter with outside-of-the-charts contemporary pop music. I must have been about thirteen years old, and I borrowed 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' from the library. 'He had a stroke at the age of twenty-four; it could have been a brilliant career.' I count this lyric as my first love.

7) The sound of the radio puts me in a very, very bad mood.
Having grown up in a house where the radio channel P1, and usually also the TV, was on everywhere, all the time, I now despise the sound of it. In general, low, buzzing background noises without structure (TV, radio, people's voices, someone else's music through their headphones) tend to make me grumpy (and if they don't cease, violent). This may also be one of the reasons why being on campus stresses me out. The intense buzz of people's various conversations is extremely exhausting to me.

Hmmm... Where shall my tag fall today? I think, perhaps, on aeva86, to get her blogging again. And on Julie, of course. And Heidi, because even she must have time for this teeny tiny pathetic excuse for a meme. And on aj_stalin, because she is stuck at home for the time being and needs to keep busy.


Now I'm getting back to my new best friends: my books. I wish you all a lovely evening.