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Bad Habit These are some of my 'bad habits'. Most of these are things people have told me are my bad habits, or I've noticed that these things annoy/offend people . . . even if I dont understand why. There are of course the vices that I know are bad, I just can help it!"Yeah I got a bad habit and it ain't goin' away" ~ The Offspring "Bad Habit"; Smash no.01: Bone Popping To explain, have you ever seen X2? If yes then please recall the scene where Lady Deathstrike (Noriko) is waiting for Striker while he is talking to the President and "Senator Kelley". As she sits there she pops every joint in her fingers about three times and freaks some people out. Now just substitute me for her and there you go, except I do that with not just my fingers but my wrists, neck, back, and ankles as well. My thumbs I can pop repeatedly over and over about 5 times a second by just moving them. To get an idea of how I pop them just close your hand up into a fist hold your hand out away from yourself then slowly bring your thumb back so that it points at you while your fist remains closed. I don’t have to make a fist, but that motion of thumb movement is all I do to have to pop them. Now I can keep popping my thumbs all I want but my fingers can only pop four times in a row before they won’t pop anymore for awhile. Again watch X2 and see how Lady Deathstrike does it, then substitute my hands for her hers. I can even just flex my fingers and my knuckles will pop on my command. For my wrists I can just rotate my wrist, or hold one hand with the other and twist. To pop my back I just tense up a little and shrug my shoulders and I can feel and hear my back popping down the center. How I pop my ankles is actually a funny story. You see when I was in elementary I was into Jazz Dancing and I took dance lessons. Before going through the warm up routines we would do four sets of stretches one of which had us sitting down spread eagle with our toes pointed straight out so that our legs and feet formed straight lines. You would then bring you foot up so that your toes were pointing to the sky and then back down again a few times. From there you would go on to lean forward slightly, place your hands on the floor in front of you and keeping your legs held out straight (sort of like splits) and raise yourself up off the ground and repeat the ankle movements. Well every time I did these stretches my ankles would keep popping. To this day I can just flex my ankle and pop it at will. When I'm bored, been sitting to long, nervous, or I've been typing/writing a lot I have this habit of popping my fingers, then thumbs, then wrists and eventually all the other joints follow suit. I'm not sure why but this habit disgusts and fascinate the unsuspecting people around me. It also just down right disturbs and annoys the people who know I do this. Why does join/knuckle/neck popping annoy or gross people out? no.02: Potty Mouth I have a potty mouth, I freely admit it. But if you dare to tell me that I shouldn't say the f-word, b-word ect. because its "unlady like" I'll say: fuck you, and pop ya one in the mouth for your troubles. That is a completely sexist thing to say and it utterly offends me. Now I've got this bad habit of saying things like "fuck, I don’t wanna do 'blah blah blah' or "shit" and "damn" a lot, it just sort of slips out. I also cuss a lot when I'm really pissed off as well and considering I can cuss you out in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese well lets just say I could be there swearing you up and down for at least half an hour and put a sailor to shame. ^_^ Its not something to be proud of, and I'm not (well maybe just a little...) but it is a habit that I'm trying to kick. no.03: Lack of Tact According to some people I'm a "little too honest" or I "lack tact". People haven’t realized yet that if your behavior is utterly ridiculous or warrants a talking-down I'll give it to you. I hate beating around the bush, just get to the point and say what’s bothering you or whatever. I can be tactful and circumspect when the situation calls for it but if you're acting like an ass (there goes my cussing again) I'll tell you, feelings be damned. In my opinion you can’t always be 'careful' with your wording. If you lay it all out on the table there is no room for misunderstandings and unclear expectations. no.04: Smoking Well this is a no brainer, I know why this offends and annoys people. It leads to bad health, makes your teeth yellow, makes your breath and you smell like an ashtray, its cancer on a stick, turns your skin yellow, blackens your lungs, takes years off your life, gives you premature wrinkles - did I miss anything? I'm well aware that this is a horrible vice and should be kicked immediately, but for some odd reason I enjoy it. I have quit numerous times gone whole years without smoking before I suddenly decide "you know I want a cigarette". Some will argue with me here on this one but I believe I'm not addicted per say, I just enjoy a cig every now and then. After all how many "addicted smokers" can buy a pack, smoke one cigarette and leave it untouched for a month or two before saying "shit, I better smoke one before they go stale". That's pretty much me in a nutshell. I smoke when I'm stressed or would like something to occupy my mind. I guess this is similar to why some people go out for drinks. As such I can't really say: "that's it I quit" because I know there will be a day I want to rip somebody's lung out through their throat and shove it up their ass and instead I decide to smoke a cigarette in order to avoid the slightly violent tendencies. Why sully your hands with some worthless imbecile's blood when you can instead light something on fire? That last comment makes me sound like a deranged pyro. no.05: Know it All Syndrome Hey if I know it I'll probably show it. I cant help it, I take immense pleasure from the fact that I have intelligence and when it comes to academics whenever I excel at something I'm highly enthused and proud of myself. I'm not that smart so when I'm a cut above the rest I love it! I can seriously identify with Hermione Granger, learning is fun, and when you can grasp the concept and bend it to your will its even better. Oh but wait, that makes me a “know it all” and a show off. For example in my CJ classes I have A's in fact I have the highest grade in one of them and this pisses some people off royally. Why, because I don’t have the books for those classes. I am passing exams and quizzes with flying colors, answering any and all of the teacher's questions in class and handing in wonderful and "brilliant" written assignments all without a book. One student even tried to tell one of my professors that I never read the chapters before class (as the teachers believe I do) and that I don’t even have the book for the class so I must be cheating! The teacher's response: "I will not tolerate outrageous and childish accusations from my students against their peers, especially when they are made out of malicious spite." Her words not mine. no.06: Obsessive I have a tendency to become obsessed with something to the point that people start thinking/saying "oh shut up about it already!" I'm like a dog with an old bone; I just keep gnawing at it. An example of this would be my obsession with Catwoman when I was younger. I was a tomboy back then so I was always idolizing the 'tough broads' when I was a kid, but Catwoman was my favorite comic book character; followed by Rogue. When the movie Batman Returns hit theaters that Halloween I dressed up as Catwoman, for writing assignments in school I wrote (what are now referred to as fanfictions) about Catwoman for a grade. My stories (for a third grader) were always ingenious and creative but after awhile the teachers and my mom got tired of "Catwoman this...Catwoman that". Hell I had (and still have some of them too!) posters, the movie, comic books, picture books, t-shirts, stickers, a Catwoman themed birthday party, Catwoman costume, notepads the list goes on. I have this bad habit of taking things to the extreme and obsessing over them. Need a more recent example? Digimon, I have three different digimon sites still. no.07: Stuck in Otaku-Mode Otaku- Japanese for geek and recently it’s been used to term anime freaks/geeks think along the lines of the American term "Trekies" (slang for Star Trek fans). The first anime I ever saw was Transformers although some argue that Thundercats and Silverhawks are anime-esque (they're not) before I was even in elementary. Digimon is my favorite anime to this day but I am still actively involved in the hunt for good anime. I love mecha (big robot shows), shoujo, shonen, fantasy, historical - I love it all! ^_^ If its got a plot I'll watch it, and sometimes even if it doesn't. For all my favorite animes I can go on and on about them (see bad habit #6). And like all other true anime geeks I can tell you who wrote the series for the manga, who directed it, who the music directors are, which seiyuu (Japanese voice actors) are playing which characters or want this certain role (and even who is seeing who). And then I'll tell you my favorite character's stats like a true fangirl. Age, height, weight, image song, favorite color, nicknames, sign, and birthday - am I scaring you yet? I scare other people. I don’t consider this a 'bad habit' but others do, so that’s why I went ahead and put this here. Needless to say this annoys people to no end. I love anime, I spend hundreds of dollars on the products a year, my collection is in the thousands of dollars now, and growing. A lot of people don’t like anime and seem to think this makes me inferior in intellect or something. It never ceases to amaze me how many review sites and personal sites on the net dislike, not to mention cut down, anime and people who like it. Hey you don’t see people saying "you friggin soap/WB show fans! You got that stuff on your layout we wont review/link/accept you!" Sorry, I'm defensive when it comes to my anime. Anyway I’m fanatical and when a new series comes out that I love I have to know everything about it and I talk about it non-stop which drives some people bat-shit crazy. no.08: Anti-Social I'm quiet, and I enjoy being by myself. it's not that I hate everyone in the world its just that in general I prefer peace and solitude to loud noise (chit chat = evil, music= good) and so I avoid crowded places and have no problem doing things on my own. This of course means to most people that I'm anti-social and hate every person in the world, or I think I'm "better than everyone". Hey if everybody jumps to those kind of assumptions based on such little facts than I would rather be anti-social than social. Who wants to spend their time with retards and imbeciles? no.09: Get Off the Streets!! Can you say speed demon? Good, now can you say Joana? ^_^ I live for speed; I can’t stand people who drive 30 or 35mph on a 45mph street. I'll pass your ass faster than you can blink. I love curves and even the sharpest turn I can take at twice the recommended speed just fine. I'm not bragging on this, its a fact. I was taught how to drive on canals and curves because they are the most dangerous of roads. If you lose control, you'll be hurting so that’s how I learned to drive. Hell one time my mom took me out on a narrow canal road about halfway down it she stopped the car got out and told me to get in the driver's seat, stick it in reverse and get us back on the main road. As such I've got a better sense of depth perception and peripheral judgment than most drivers (especially city drivers) so I can zip through spaces most would think the car couldn't fit through if it inched along slowly. So yeah, sometimes I give old ladies and friends’ heart attacks when I'm behind the wheel. I really do need to learn to take the foot off the gas and chill. I suffer from severe road rage. Cut me off, ride on my ass (bumper), refuse to turn your bright lights off, or worse yet drive with your brights on while riding my bumper and you'll make my blood pressure rise. To give you an idea of just how pissed off I'll get if some idiot is riding my bumper with or without his bights on I've been known to slow down and keep slowing down until they pass me or back off, even if I have to go 15 in a 55 zone. If they try to pass me I'll rev Pyro up and force 'em to do at least 90 to pass me, then I'll shine my brights on 'em and angle my car till my lights are shining directly in their rear-view mirror and side mirror. Sometimes instead I'll just slam my brakes on real fast while they're riding my bumper, people usually get the hint then and back off or pass. no.10: Does She Ever Take A Breath? I can be very talkative, not with the majority of people granted, but when I'm with friends or excited about something I can and will talk a mile a minute. What is even worse is that I can talk exceptionally fast so I have a tendency to say a lot of things, really fast and all in one breath. A friend joked once that the university should offer a course in Joana Linguistics; the course of understanding and deciphering the speech habits of the rare Joana-dragon. ^_^ no.11: Punctuation Please! The spell checker on my computer hates me. No seriously, it does. Everytime I type up a document there are tons of words underlined in green and red. I tend to type like I talk, as fast as I can, so I flip letters and words around constantly. For example, I have a really bad habit of typing "hte" instead of "the" when I'm in a hurry, or I'll forget to let up on the shift key and a couple of extra letters will be capitalized. Spelling aside, I tend to make a lot of grammatical mistakes. I know this and I try really hard to keep from making run on sentences and what not, really I do. Instead I usually stick commas and semi colons where they arn't needed and end up making coma slpices all over the damn place. My problem, as one teacher pointed out to me in high school, is that I write like I talk. The best tip for most people on when and where to break up a sentence is to speak it out loud. If you pause to take a breath the sentence is too long, or needs to be broken down. This is just dandy for most people but in my case it doesn't help much at all. I tend to speak longer sentences then the average person does in one breath and so when I read what I've written outloud I can say it all in one breath, so I wont catch my mistakes unless someone else is there and says: "take a breath" or something to that effect. Sadly even when I've checked back over my work and all errors are eliminated there are always mistakes that the spell checker wont pick up on, hence why I'm always revising my stuff. * page last updated: June 16, 2005 |
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