My weird habits

• I am addicted to information. I go into a mini-panic whenever I don't have my phone on me, or perish the thought, I don't have internet. it's part of why i got a laptop - because I constantly have stupid little questions that will irk me until i get an answer. having portable search is way better. for example, I can't watch a movie on TV without checking imdb at least once. so instead of jumping up and missing something, I would just bring the laptop in. Learned that trick at Yellow House.
• Along with this addiction to information, I love learning new things. I can easily spend the better part of an hour clicking through links that lead me to MPIs and the awesomeness of St. Vitus (patron saint of dance because of of the apraxia not the other way around, also performers and oversleepers and Prague).
• So in that sense, it's great to be in grad school. on the other, it makes it so hard to commit to a topic or have the attention span to focus on it. that's the real reason it takes me so damn long to do anything - because I am constantly interrupted with random queries.
• Also - I hate the look people give me when I try to explain my interest in weird diseases. I hate apologizing for being interested in something entirely unrelated to theatre-dance, and something most of the people I talk to know nothing about. grr.