This is a 'trend' that needs to be nipped in the bud. Get back to work you guys! (directed at those devotees who're preparing their lists while they're supposed to be working...)
No bloody wonder our National productivity is falling. ;)
How prevalent are morning baths, as opposed to showers, in your area?
Posted at 2006-01-06 11:19:31 [PermaLink]The bath isn't the "weird" part, it's the newspaper.
Posted at 2006-01-06 11:21:32 [PermaLink]I don't find the paper part all that odd; it seems like a good use of time. This is probably a cultural difference, but taking a morning bath instead of a shower would be considered unusual south of the 49th parallel. Baths are generally reserved for evenings and weekends (if at all) because they are time consuming.
Now about that sidewalk thing...
I like eggs. I eat them with sausages on which I like a bit of ketchup. However, if the ketchup happens to touch the eggs, then I get peeved and can hardly finish eating them.
Posted at 2006-01-06 11:34:25 [PermaLink]Vile eggs, or as I call them Chicken abortions. Give the bird a chance to grow into a delicious Bucket from Kentucky Fried Chicken and then consume it.
Posted at 2006-01-06 11:40:22 [PermaLink]Alan Greenspan reads all his Fed reports in the bath
albeit at night, I think, so what you do can't be that weird, on the other hand my having picked up somewhere and remembered that Alan Greenspan reads his reports in the bath is weird
Reading the paper in the shower is a non-starter....
Posted at 2006-01-06 13:45:49 [PermaLink]I'm with you on the eggs, Damian. I just start looking off into the middle distance when they make their appearance at business lunches. The ketchup just compounds the crime. Having been a graduate student and bachelor for years, I also understand your recipe for Olivieri cheese tortellini. The sidewalk thing, well okay, that's a little weird. Come to think of it - why are we all talking about this? Must be a very slow day in the Newfoundland legal world infecting all of us.
Posted at 2006-01-06 15:23:32 [PermaLink]I used to have something similar to the crack-in-the-sidewalk thing (if one foot stepped on a crack, the other had to). I started wondering if I was OCD, so I made a conserted effort to not care. It worked. I no longer care if I step on a crack ("you break your mother's back").
I like eggs, but still remember the first time I saw my sister eat them with ketchup. It was revolting. Now salsa is another matter altogether, but what can you expect from someone who grew up in a country that has ketchup flavored potatoe chips?
I used to avoid cracks in the sidewalk, too. But that's because when I was about 6 years old and walking to school for the first time, my evil 8-year-old cousin used to tell me that worms lived in the cracks, and that I'd surely step on the worms if I stepped in the cracks. I was terrified of worms (hated walking to school in the rain) so I avoided the cracks.
Posted at 2006-01-06 22:04:56 [PermaLink]YOU were terrified of WORMS?! Imagine how the WORMS feel about YOU!!!...heheh, their revenge is coming Sari.
Posted at 2006-01-06 23:09:30 [PermaLink]I'd lay off the uncooked cheese tortellini snacking if I were you, pal - there's raw egg in there, used to bind together the filling, and you're flirting with a nasty case of food poisoning.
Posted at 2006-01-07 08:32:13 [PermaLink]