RULES: Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own ten weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose upto ten people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.

1. I like to clean. When I'm stressing out or having a bad day I clean, and it makes me feel better. If things are already clean, I arrange them in order of height or alphabetically. I get annoyed when pictures are hanging really lopsidedly or if people make a mess and leave it for someone else to clean. My sister says her way of organising things is by the Chaos Theory. But even the Chaos Theory has a mathematical and logical order to things which can be defined in a number of mathematical formula. Unfortunately she can't come up with a mathematical formula to find her things amongst the chaos, so she is really just clutching at proverbial straws.

2. I like to eat. A lot. Mostly junk food. I really don't like healthy food, unless it is cooked by my mum. At the rate that I eat food, as well as the types of food I eat, I should probably be obese. But I'm not. I have a very healthy BMI of 21.3 (healthy is between 19 and 25). I rarely exercise, unless you count running to the fridge every 20 minutes to grab a snack. Don't worry, I'm not bulimic or anything, I just happen to have an extremely good metabolism. To show you my cool metabolism here is an outline of what i typically eat during the course of a Friday;

Breakfast: toast with lots of jam and a big glass of fresh milk + a piece of chocolate if there is any in the fridge

Legal Class: Free donuts from the student counsellor!!! + milo from the teachers staff room

Morning Tea: Something deepfried and smothered in sauce and chicken salt from the canteen + a can of coke or pub squash + my dried pawpaw

Lunch: Hot chips, again fried, and covered in cicken salt and tomato sauce + milkshake

Afterternoon tea: Salt and vinegar chips + some of liz's green frogs!! + coke

End of work: Complimentary icecream thickshake and 3 scoop icecream from work!!! + leftover donuts and chinese food from Donut King and Little Beijing

Dinner: Cold pizza + mountain dew + chocolate milk before bed

notice the total lack of exercise??? *hugs awesomatic metabolism*

3. I don't express very many emotions. Sometimes I worry that I lack proper emotions. I know that people are supposed to feel happy, sad, angry, annoyed, disappointed etc, but I never feel any of these to a great degree. I'm usually happy, but I'm not very sympathetic towards others. Of course on the outside I pretend to be interested and concerned, but if I don't know them that well I honestly don't really care, as long as they don't whinge about their sad little situation to me. It's different with my friends, because I actually care about them and how the things in their lives are going. With them I am able to be concerned and worry about their situations and the events in their lives, but at the same time I am able to pull away and compartmentalise things so that I don't get overwhelmed by bad situations. The main emotional state that I exist in is happy indifference.

4. I have never hated anyone. I don't fully understand what other people mean when they say they HATE someone. There are plenty of people that I dislike or don't get along with, but I have never experienced dislike so intense that I could call it hatred.

5. I never start assignments until 1-2 days before they are due. Usually I start them the night before, generally finishing them about 5 hours before I have to hand them in. Despite this I always get the highest, second highest or third highest score. Go figure. I think It's because in the 10 or 12 hours that i spend doing the assignment, I am able to focus on the assignment and nothing else. Other people might start their assignment a month before I do, but only spend 5 or 6 hours actually doing the assignment. Most of the time they would be distracted by IM-ing or watching youtube or surfing Myspace. While the time I spend on my assignments is very intense and my attention is not distracted by msn or tv or anything like that. lol the funniest thing is that the teachers always comment on how organised and planned my assignments are. *raises an eyebrow*

6. I don't care what other people think. I know this has got to be one of the oldest cliches around, but its true. I used to care what people thought and said about me, especially in primary school. It wasn't until I read a psychology book about how everyone has insecurities. Bullies hide their insecurities by preying on the fears of those that are smaller and weaker than they are. The beautiful people hide their insecurities behind their face, even though inside they think they are ugly. Smart people hide behind their grades to make up for their lack of social or verbal communication skills. Parents and teachers hide behind authority. Preachers hide behind pulpits. Retail workers hide behind 'store policy'.

Conformists hide in the crowd. Individualists hide behind fake confidence. Everybody hides, and everybody is insecure. The only people who are the same on the outside and the inside are those who don't care about what other people think, because they have nothing to hide.

True individualists are people who don't feel the need to make a statement about the fact that they don't conform. They just do it quietly and without fanfare. That's who I am. I don't say "I'm an individualist!!!" I also don't follow "the crowd" I just do what I want without making a big song and dance about it.

Words are cheap, and people judge you, not by what you SAY, but by what you DO.

7.I don't feel like I try hard enough at anything I do. I'm always told how talented I am at schoolwork, and at home and at church and at work, but I never feel like I deserve those positive comments. I always feel like I'm going to fail. Although I get mostly A's and high B's at school, whenever exam time comes around I freak out that somehow I will screw up somehow. At the same time I don't feel the need to try any harder because as far as everyone else is concerned, I'm doing very well. I'm not getting the absolute top marks in every single thing, (just english and legal) but I'm always up there with the best of them. Sometimes it seems like I'm pulling off a massive con job and that somehow people just haven't noticed how lazy and inept I am.

8. I have a very good sense of character. Ever since I was little I have been able to determine a person's character from the moment I met them. Ever since I met my uncle when I was very young, I would cry and scream if I was left alone with him. Recently I found out that he has been abusing my cousins for a number of years, and the same probably would have happened to me if I had not had that gut instinct and reaction. In year 9 a girl in our drama class started hanging around with us, and I didn't trust anything she said. She was really nice and easygoing and I couldn't figure out why I didn't believe anything she was saying. Later that year she told us a heap of stuff about her dad, ex boyfriends, and a supposed twin brother/twin sister and we realised that she was a serial liar. That's 0 for 2 in favor of my instinct. I have had a number of similar gut instinct experiences with other people over the years.

9. I believe that there is a spiritual realm. Not in the sense of faeries and goblins or anything like that, but in the sense that there are things and dimensions in the world around us that cannot be seen or touched or measured by any mathematical method or logical reasoning that we currently possess or know about, and they can influence the world in subtle and inconspicuous ways.

10. I am very, very cynical. I can easily "see" the bright side in life, but I generally don't believe that this "vision of a better world" will actually become a reality. The reason for this is my lack of trust in other poeple. In order for the world to become a better place, humankind would have to completely reverse the way that it has been doing things since the beginning of time and go against human nature itself. People are lazy, stupid, and narcissistic, and because of this, they get things done by taking the shortest, easiest route that is the most convenient for them. This is why the world will always be run by those with money, power and influence, eg the people who couldn't give a damn for the environment, the poor, the weak, the sick and the repressed. This is because the very fact that the sick, poor and repressed exist is proof that some people (politicians, presidents, druglords, warmongers, military officials, actors, entertainers, CEOs, stockbrokers, dictators and oilcompanies) have too much money, power and influence. Ultimately, all that money and influence and power has been bought with the stolen lives, the ruined health and the slavery of those people that cannot defend themselves and do not have the resources to get what is rightfully theirs.

how depressing. im going to go listen to happy music. *dances to newsboys*