Mary Robinette Kowal tagged me to do this meme, though IIRC, she violated one of the rules by not leaving a comment on my blog to inform me of this tagging.  Thus my delay in participating.  But then again I’ve been insanely busy lately, so I wouldn’t have had time anyway, and I’ve been so inundated with blog comment spam, perhaps she did comment and I just missed it. 

Here are the rules of the meme:

Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

There are probably at least six weird things about me that are apparently obvious to everyone who knows me or reads this blog, so I’ll attempt to list six weird things that might not be immediately apparent.

1. I have titanium rods attached to my spine.
2. I don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs. (This doesn’t seem weird to me, but enough people have expressed surprise at this trifecta that I have come to think of it as an unusual quirk of mine.)
3. I’m a dietary creature of habit: I eat the same thing for dinner almost every day (and will usually eat that same thing for lunch if I’m not working); at work, I eat at the same Chinese place every day for lunch, and I order the same thing every time (I don’t even have to say anything when I enter the place; they just start making my order).
4. I lost 190 lbs.
5. I have to make notes to do things all the time or else I’ll completely forget; sometimes I still forget, even with the notes.
6. I almost never take my contacts out, even though the instructions say to take them out once a week (and to dispose of them after a month).  Instead, I just wear them until they start bothering me, then I take them out and throw them away.

I’m not going to bother tagging anyone since I’m coming to this meme late, and a lot of people have probably done it already.  Well, no, I’ll tag The Slushmaster; I don’t think he’s done it yet.  Speaking of which, I find it incredibly amusing that when you google “Slushmaster” (to grab the URL), google asks “Did you mean: flushmaster“.  But I guess that works too: he takes the hopes and dreams of the writers submitting stories and flushes them right down the toilet…