{"id":475,"date":"2008-02-12T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/as-if-you-want-to-know-my-quirks.html"},"modified":"2008-02-12T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:45:00","slug":"as-if-you-want-to-know-my-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/as-if-you-want-to-know-my-quirks.html","title":{"rendered":"As If You Want to Know My Quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got<\/span> blog meme<\/a>-tagged by my Interwebs friend Bryan<\/a>, so I will hereby follow the rules and tell you some things about myself you didn’t know you wanted to know. <\/p>\n

The rules are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. Link to the person that tagged you. (Done.)<\/span>
2. Post the rules on your blog. (Done.)<\/span>
3. Share six non-important things\/habits\/quirks about yourself. (Below.)<\/span>
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. (Done.)<\/span>
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged. (Forthcoming.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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So, here are six non-important things, habits, and\/or quirks about me:<\/p>\n

1. I love chips and salsa,<\/span> but am very particular about it. I won’t abide most kinds of processed salsa (the kind with preservatives). If I do eat the kind of salsa you can buy in a store, I have to chop it up into pieces so small you can’t recognize individual ingredients. Preferred chips? Bite-sized Tostitos, which are round and therefore ideal for getting the last vestiges of salsa out of the bottom of the bowl. (This is well-nigh impossible with triangle-shaped chips.)<\/p>\n

2. Rarely will I eat<\/span> cookies, brownies, cake, pancakes, or waffles unless they are accompanied by 2% milk. Not skim milk. I have strong personal feelings against skim milk.<\/p>\n

3. I can still recite<\/span> the entirety of Kool Moe Dee’s old school rap, “I Go to Work<\/a>,” from the 1989 album Knowledge Is King<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. My arm<\/span> (in a bright blue windbreaker) appears in the opening scene of “Wonderland<\/a>,” a Peter Berg-created series on ABC about a mental institution. They were filming it while we stood in line in Times Square at the TKTS booth. I show up for less than a second during a scene in which the lead characters walk past us. The series was pretty controversial and as a result it lasted less than one season. I’m pretty sure my lack of screen time had something to do with that.<\/p>\n

5. I can talk<\/span> in very respectable (albeit outlandish) Irish and Scottish accents. But I can’t do any other accents because they all end up sounding Irish or Scottish.<\/p>\n

6. The books<\/span> on my bookshelves are organized in alphabetical order, by authors’ last names, and divided between fiction and nonfiction. They have been this way since I was in high school. I have heard of artists and design-y types organizing their bookshelves by color, and am intrigued by this — it looks pretty cool<\/a> — but haven’t yet brought myself to do it. Because how would I ever find anything?<\/p>\n

OK. Having fulfilled my duty, I am hereby tagging the following poor souls:<\/p>\n