i am neurotic.

I will sit there, even on a time-crunched test, and circle every one of my answers. If the circle does not touch and form a completely connected figure, I will draw additional lines to close the circle, even if it takes twenty tries.

When traveling by car (usually in the passengers seat) I name the make and model of every car that passes me by. I even name how many generations back that particular generation was released, of if it’s the current generation. If it was within the past three or four years I can usually tell the year it was released, too. I’ve also learned to ID the make/model/generation just by looking at it’s lights in the dark. When I’m the one driving, I do this about the same, except I’ll only glance at the car for a split second and still be able to tell. If I don’t do this, I feel like a ferrari is going to pass me by and I’ll miss it.

When ever i see some thing really tiny, like tiny thread patterns in the couch, small mark on a wood, tiny permanent stain on something, small dents, tiny curves on rocks.. I always say on my mind “Hi there little fellow”.. it’s as if I was the first one to see it and it deserves recognition.

If I am writing and I dot an i, if it’s not obviously visible, I HAVE to go back and re-dot it. Even if I am in the middle of a class lecture, and the professor talks really fast, I still find the time to go back and re-dot it. And I HATE it when my professors write on the board and either forget to dot the i, or you can barely see the dot, or the dot is too far away. I end up looking at it until it gets erased.

If I ask someone to repeat something back to me, I have to speak in unison with their words to make sure I understand it correctly. If I don’t do it, I have to ask them to repeat it again.

If I drive in the rain, then park and turn the engine off, and my windshield wipers are frozen halfway across my windshield, I must restart my car again just to put them where they belong.

I can’t fall asleep unless the open end up my pillowcase faces the left side of the bed. It does not matter if I’m in a hotel, on a couch, or at home. I have tried many times to fall asleep with it facing the other side and after one or two hours of tossing and turning finally give up and flip the pillow over.

The present I’m most excited to get for my birthday is a label maker, so I can label everything!

I cannot stand when someone is walking directly behind me. I have to slow down and wait until they pass me or i feel like i’m being stalked. It is a lot worse when walking up the stairs.

I always try to have at least $1.55 in change in my left pants pocket and always in four quarters, four dimes, two nickel and five pennies. I’ll regularly empty my pocket of anty extra change and take whichever of the aforementioned coins I may be missing from my change jar.