A lot of these I discovered when I started filming myself for my blog. Doesn't that sound horribly vain?

Non-text documentation at the bottom.

1. I am a worrier. This breaks down into several habits all linked to being tense almost all the time.
1a) I grit my teeth when reading, driving, or writing unless something else requires the use of my mouth or I have been drinking (never before driving!).
1b) I am paranoid about things like leaving the gas on and locking doors. If I walk away from the car and don't confirm that the car is locked by either asking you or wandering back to have a look you can be fairly confident there is a problem. Likewise confirming that "everything is off". If, within the span of a month, I haven't asked a close friend to confirm that my apartment is not going to burn down then something is amiss.

2. I sound unusually Canadian and say, "uhm", "ok" and "yea" a lot. Think aboot it.

3. I talk with my hands. If I'm describing something the hands will be involved in some way. Often when I'm very upset at someone I pantomime wringing their neck or doing something to their eyeballs.

4. I'm self-deprecating and do not respond well to compliments. If you are nice to me I will get squirmy 99 times out of 100. I might question your judgment, sanity, or motivation for such things.

5. I make faces and obscene gestures on a regular basis. When I had a corporate job I rolled my eyes so much it started to hurt. I actually got a repetitive stress injury to my middle finger from flipping the bird on my 40 minute commute. Dead serious. It probably didn't help that I went around offering to show my coworkers my repetitive stress injury the rest of the day.

6. I rarely eat meat. I will occasionally eat poultry but never anything sausage-like, with bones in it, or that lives in the water. I will gag uncontrollably if I consume things in those categories in more than microscopic amounts. So if you are trying to see if the pod people succeeded just offer me a chicken wing or slip a tentacle into my spaghetti (oh, god, yuck) and see what happens.

7. Unless the demands of society or activity wholly preclude it I will have my messenger bag on. I will always have a writing implement and paper of some kind. I do not carry a purse unless specifically required to dress like a girl and mean it. If you want to test this you should ask me where I got my "purse" (when wearing my messenger bag) to which I will respond, "it's a satchel!"

8. I will always have something interesting on hand. Emergency blanket, X-men playing cards, mini-glo sticks, glitter, zombie statuette....

9. I obsess about the fact that, despite a strict regimen of malnutrition, my fingernails continue to grow. I clip them to points multiple times a week and fidget with my cuticles whenever not engaged in anything else or when extremely agitated.

10. Sarcazm. I haz it. Let me show you. Oh, yea, like I'm going to make a macro for this task. ;P

See for yourself a vast swath of my habits filmed over the past 2.5 weeks:
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