Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me

I don’t normally do memes, but I’ve been too busy to write much original material this week, so here goes. (Tom at Doors of Deception tagged me with this one.)

Five things people who know me might be surprised to hear:

1. Floater. I have a permanent floater in my left eye that’s right near the center of my vision. When it drifts in to the exact center, I tend to reflexively glance at solid colors around me—the sky is best if I can see it—trying to get a better look at it. Then, when I realize what I’m doing, I try to shake it out of my vision by glancing sharply left and right several times. If you’ve seen me doing this in the middle of a conversation, now you know what was going on.
2. Ignorance of Professional Sports. If you know me, you know I don’t follow sports, but you probably don’t realize the full scope of my ignorance. For instance, two of the sports headlines on Yahoo right now are “Pacers, Warriors make eight-player deal” and “Schottenheimer to return to Chargers.” I don’t know who Schottenheimer is, I don’t know where those teams play, and if the headlines weren’t labeled, I couldn’t even tell you which sports we’re talking about.
3. Peanut Butter and Ketchup Sandwich. Sometimes, I just gotta have one.
4. Prosopagnosia. I think I have a little bit of it. Prosopagnosia is difficulty recognizing faces. Some people with severe forms of it—often caused by brain damage—are completely incapable of recognizing even close friends and family by their face. They have to rely on clothing, voice, behavior, and context. I just have a little trouble learning to recognize people until I’ve met them several times, especially if I see them out of context, and I’m easily thrown by a change of makeup, hair style, or sometimes clothing. I also have trouble matching faces and names. There are whole groups of people where I recognize everyone and I know all their names, but I can’t match the names to the faces.
5. I Like More Rap Music Than You’d Think. Well, not much of the gangsta stuff…or maybe I’m confusing rap and hip-hop…if there’s even a difference between rap and hip-hop…maybe I shoud say I like some music that’s rap-ish. Obviously, I don’t know much about rap, but from time to time I do enjoy the work of Eminem, Everlast, Black Eyed Peas, Gnarls Barkley, with maybe a little bit of Kanye, Nelly, Twista, and Will Smith. I never said I was hard core. Blogga 4 Life.

Now I’m supposed to pass this on to five other people. I don’t really know who’s going to read this, but I guess I’ll pass this on to Leslie, John, Libby, Pete, and Philipp. I don’t think any of them except Leslie do memes, and she probably did this one months ago, but now I’ve done my duty.