Three Bad Habits

Posted Sat May 10, 2008 in

As part of the me-me-meme I’ll continue with what I think are my three bad habits. Well, check that — there are probably more bad habits, but I’ll focus on the three I think are my worst.

My first is waking too early in the morning. I posses an over-active mind. I often wake between 0300 and 0400. If I’m able, I roll over or plug in the iPod and go back to sleep. Too often, however, like this morning I don’t return to sleep and find myself in my workroom. Sometimes I putter, browsing the ‘net a little or researching something that interests me. Other times I’m at work on a project and often have a half-day done before I even hit the office.

My second bad habit is trichotillomania. If my beard grows too long, I pull at it, particularly when thinking really hard. So, I keep it short because I hate the regular shave but don’t like to pull at my beard.

Hmm… Now for the third… I suppose I have a bad habit for interrupting someone when they’re talking. Sometimes my thoughts start working and I can move really fast from idea to idea and a discussion can become highly dynamic. I am something of a free-associator and my thoughts can take on a random appearance as one idea leads to a synaptic jump to something else, where the relation between the two may not be apparent.

Whether I do that or not seems to depend on the situation. For example, a friend was here this week to do a training class for us. He’s an expert in geospatial applications. After work we went to supper and I went into “hyper-mode.” We were talking shop (Wife is quite patient with me) and the talk turned to something I’ve thought about for a long time. It was fun, but I’m afraid I was not very polite. However, my friend is patient and we still had a good time.

So, there you go — three bad habits.