5 Things You Didn’t Know

1. Like Cory I too have weird visualizations going on where all axises of surfaces and intersections connect for me into symmetrical shapes with imaginary red laser lines which I often try to step on while walking. Part of why it is often hard for me to concentrate. Reminds me of Han Qing-jao without the shame… or gods. May be related to why I am able to size things very well, like when arranging furniture. Yes, that couch and table will both fit on that wall. Those boxes will fit in that box if you put the first one on its side, long ways at the bottom and the other one on its end.

2. I like solid, heavy things. (I hate foam core or hollow doors, paper plates, folding chairs.) To me the size of an object dictates a certain density. If the size to weight ratio doesn’t match what I expect (which is calculated for me automatically), I don’t like it. (Is there a golden ratio for weight?) Like my MacBook, it is sleek and thin, yet when I pick it up it is heavier and more solid than I expected. Yeah! I can keep it. Red enameled, stainless steel dice would be a very cool density.

3. I have an economy of motion fetish especially when opening doors. I prefer to approach a door that opens in from the left, grab the knob, open it with my right hand with a jolt so that as I begin to pass through the door, twist my back to the left a few degrees, catch the knob on the opposite side behind my back with my left hand, so that just as my left foot crosses the threshold, the door is closed. I do a brief pause to make sure I can feel the latch click and am on my way.

4. I generally feel like an alien being. I constantly feel out of rhythm with the world and its people most often in conversation. Part of it has to due with my insatiable need for interesting topics and deeper levels (even if I do not contribute them). My brain is constantly working things out based on new information. But, it doesn’t tell me what it is doing or what it has decided so when asked how I got to some conclusion, I can’t replay the steps. This makes teaching or even explaining to somebody how I do whatever it is that I do, very difficult for me and them. It is also annoying because in meetings I am prone to ask questions too early. So I sit in a meeting listening to everyone while I guess my brain is putting together puzzle pieces and extrapolating outcomes as it goes until is runs out of pieces. So it tells me to ask a question but doesn’t tell me why. I get an answer from someone who generally looks confused about why the question was asked and I go back to listening. Twenty minutes later, somebody turns to me with some kind of discovery in their eye, and says “Aha! That’s why you asked that question” and they go away thinking I knew where the meeting was going the whole time. Greetings, Alien! Take me to your leader.

5. I never actually know what I’m doing, I’m making it all up as I go along. Yes, all of it.