thescruffypiratedotorg

Following suit I am going to attempt to post a list of things I am OCD about.

1. Books. I don't like them to get dirty, beat up, or hurt at all.

2. Who uses my computer. I pretty much hate it when someone else uses my computer. I could be sitting next to someone who owns a 12.1" Powerbook G4 and be perfectly fine, (what my laptop, Hank, is) but if they borrow my computer it would look weird. Feel weird. I hate it when people ask me if they can use my computer.

   Now, if you need to ask and you realize how hard this is for me it is okay. But if you act like it is no big deal then you don't know me at all and it is.

3. When things are not aligned on my desk. I like everything to match a vertical and horizontal grid. This gets away from me though once a certain level of clutter is reached.
4. If I am ever out to eat and the restaurant gives me a coaster for my pint of root beer, the glass has to be centered on the coaster and I want to fix everyone else's drinks.

5. Cataloging things like music and movies and relatives. It started my first year of college when I decided I wanted to have the correct artist and album name for all the songs in my music library.

   Junior year I neglected my reading for Operating Systems (probably one of the hardest classes I took at CC) to make sure every song was tagged with the original album it came out on and also its composer.

   It got worse my senior year when I wanted every single photo I had taken to have the correct location and participants and lots of tags.

   Last year I started tagging movies and TV shows. I wanted each show to have the correct number of seasons and episodes marked, the writer and the original air date. And then eventually the cast.

   This summer I decided all songs should have lyrics, too.

   Just recently I found Geni which is for keeping track of your family tree. And now I am working my way back to Adam and Eve. I'll get there eventually!

That's all I can think of for now. Can you guys think of any others I have? Disagree anywhere? Have any things you are OCD about?

I am certainly not OCD about

1. Bathing
2. Brushing
3. Flossing
4. Laundry
5. Putting things away
6. Eating
7. Sleeping
8. Pooing
9. Grammar

9 April 2008 06:54am UTC • 442 views • 2 comments

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2 comments

1. Cabin Boy Farluffo

   12 April 2008 01:26pm UTC

   you like to keep your playing cards unbent and perfectly shaped. no cupping them in your hands what-so-ever. ;)

2. First Mate Beca

   13 April 2008 05:11am UTC

   You certainly are OCD about eating, don't even pretend that eating only watermelon jelly bellies or a hamburger PLAIN and DRY is not OCD. At least you don't turn the light switch on and off a certain number of times when entering/leaving a room....or do you?

   What am I OCD about? I know I am but I can't really pinpoint anything. My stuff I guess, I don't like when people touch my things...or when people come over and aimlessly wander around my room and touch everything. Ugh, I hate it. Or MOVE things. Don't move my stuff.

   Hey, when are you gonna be here? And by here I mean actually hang out with me and not call me the day you are leaving?

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