Another bad habit I want to combat is excessive biscuit dipping. Yep. I dip biscuits in my tea. I take one, just one, and then just one more, or maybe two more and this horrible obsessive process just continues. I can never stop.
I leave everything till last minute even though 90% of the time I've got loads of freetime (i.e. non-important stuff) to do the damn essay, report, assignment or whatever.
Furthermore, sometimes I'll read about ten books at once, which I don't think is particularly a bad habit but other people do.
I also sing too much.
What's your bad habits?
― ThErEdNeD (ThErEdNeD), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ThErEdNeD (ThErEdNeD), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I used to pull out my hair when I was about 12.
My sister does that 'scratching-and-sniffing' thing and it drives my Dad bonkers.
― Mandee, Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
...and i don't really think the plastic habit works. in any sense.
― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
(which I'm not sure counts as a bad habit, but the things I do because of it maybe do...)
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.trich.org/home/default.asp
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Habits I wanna get rid of...staying up late then being sleepy & drousy the next day, right about this time of...*snore*
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
I used to pull my hair out when I was a teenager. I neatly solved the problem by shaving a big patch of my head.
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Holding incense sticks like they were cigarettes (usually when I've been drinking...wait, I carry incense sticks with me at all times = oh shit I really am a hippie, fuck!).
Chewing gum with my mouth open (someone told me yesterday that, when I chew gum, I get this Corey-Haim-from-the-80s goofy slack-jawed grin...I immediately began chewing with my mouth SHUT).
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Maybe she's right...
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
1) For a few weeks, I was in the habit of pulling out my hair. Usually right from the top of my head. But it didn't seem noticeable, so I wasn't too worried. Then, I was at some family barbecue, and my aunt pulled my mom aside and said, "Is J. going bald?" I promptly stopped.
2) In college, I started doing this obsessive biting-the-inside-of-my-cheeks thing. I was in a philosophy class, and must've really been going at, because my super- pompous professor stopped what he was saying and said, "J., you look perplexed. Do you have a question?" That embarrassed me enough to quit.
I still bite my nails, but I no longer think it's a bad habit. It's efficient, dammit. (I do occasionally smoke, though.)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Hampshire's fault, in part, where typical classroom discussion would be: Tep says, blah blah blah, Prof says, "Fuck that, Tep, what did you really think?", Tep says, "I think it's shit.")
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm the prudest thing alive, I've no idea why I've started cursing up a storm at work.
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't mind humoring her on this.
Generally, though, being chided for swearing makes me prone to doing it twice as much.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
It varied a lot for me -- I mean, Hampshire policy was to stick to first names (except this one prof who addressed everyone by last name, and somehow managed to make it seem super-snide), but that didn't mean every prof had the informality that went with it. When you feel like you're in some sitcom re-creation of Stodgy Higher Learning, it can be hard to call the prof "Andrew" and not feel weird.
If I teach, though, I'm gonna have everyone call me "Mr./Dr. K," cause they'll never get my name right and that way I sound all secret agent-ish.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also I forgot I'm a big bone-cracker...knuckles, ankles, back, and neck. The neck one freaks people out sometimes and I halfway feel bad for accidentally doing it in front of them and halfway I feel like, c'mon, pussy, it doesn't hurt, and it's me not you anyway, suck it up. I'm v. flexible and can pop my back by leaning backwards and putting my palms on the back of my calves KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF.
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 1 May 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 1 May 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Friday, 2 May 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 2 May 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Friday, 2 May 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 2 May 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Picking at my split ends is another one. My hair is always trashed.
― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
I did this a few years ago. But I was pretending it was a long, sexy cigarettes from the '20s. That's cool, right?
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
I rub my nose. I don't even pick it. I just rub the end of it alot when I'm sitting here bored at my desk. I dunno. It's comforting or something. I used to snap off split ends all the time too, but now I just pull my hair back every day so I don't see them. I have this bad habit of posting to ILX all day when I should be working, but I don't plan on breaking that one.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also get irate about people who either don't deserve it or deserve tit to the point where they're actually beyond contempt so don't *deserve* it.
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Chris, My sister pulls at her skin. It's still referred to as trich. by her doctor.
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 2 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 4 May 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 4 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 4 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
...caring.
...not caring.
...cooking in the middle of the night whilst toasted and facking my kitchen all to hell and not cleaning it up cuz I'm just trashed and hungry and tired and pissed off cuz the person what said they were gonna call never did and then having bad dreams and waking up in the morning to find black beans and cheese and avocado slices all over my kitchen floor.
...biting my lip.
...tapping my foot and other unconcious rhythmical twitchings.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ThErEdNeD (ThErEdNeD), Sunday, 4 May 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― tres letraj (tehresa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch is the realest topic alive (haitch), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch is the realest topic alive (haitch), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
*wonders if that saying carries outside of aus*
Also: nose rubbing much like Sarah said above, swearing, sighing loudly for no reason, and talking to myself ALL THE TIME.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
haha that reminds me of this girl i dated very very briefly five or six years ago.. she would regularly (probably every 10 minutes or so on average) make happy little sigh noises and tbh it drove me insane! it was one of many reasons it didn't go anywhere..
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Other Kate (papa november), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Wha? That sounds like a good habit to me. Maybe if I start doing it I might learn to stop yelling things like "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING INTERSECTION BITCH!" at soccer moms in vans.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link
m.
― msp (mspa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
A million other annoying habits, but that above one I wanna get rid of first.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
(Actually nipples would better, no?)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link