Eight Random Facts About Me...

Okay, so April has tagged me. Eight random facts about me...

1. I am obsessed with being early. To me, if I am on time, I'm late. I get to work fifteen minutes early every day and when I'm in school, I'm always to class at least 10 minutes early.

2. I am very picky about the silverware I will eat off. We have a few different sets, but I will only eat off one of the sets. If someone sets the table and gives me silverware from one of the other sets, I will get up and switch it out.

3. I love getting down to the nitty-gritty when I clean. My favorite cleaning tool is a toothpick. I love getting all the gross gunk out of little hard-to-reach cracks and crevices.

4. I require a lot of sleep and sometimes my sleep schedule is whacky. Sometimes I go to bed at 7:00 PM and sometimes I don't go to bed until 1:00 AM. Last week, I slept from 7:00 PM until 8:00 AM. I sometimes even take a 2 hour nap a few hours before I go to bed.

5. I love getting sore after a work out. If I don't get sore, I don't feel I accomplished anything. And it's fun to be sore because it feels so good to stretch my muscles.

6. I am a perfectionist when it comes to my school work. If I get a 99 on a test, I will be disappointed that it's not a 100. In fact, this past semester in my anatomy class, I got a 113 out of 115 with everything above 100 being extra credit. I was still disappointed that I missed two extra credit points.

7. My pet peeve is when people walk slowly in the grocery store and I get stuck behind them. When I enter the grocery store, I am a woman on a mission and I speed-walk. I guess this applies to other realms too. I also walk really fast around the campus at college. One time, one of my friends was trying to catch me so we could talk for a minute and when he finally got my attention, he said, "Man, you are on a mission!"

8. I drive my family crazy talking about anatomy and physiology. When my grandma had a fever, I started telling her how fevers are a part of the body's nonspecific defenses and I told her about interleukin 1 being the main pyrogen in the body. I talked about fevers intensifying the actions of the interferons, etc. When I went swimming, I was all excited to tell my mom, upon noticing my fingers being wrinkled like raisins, that the sebum had come off my skin and it was absorbing water, hence the water pockets between my dermis and my epidermis. My brother gets so annoyed at me and one time, he swallowed some water and choked on it and said to me, "Tell me what was going on in my body that caused me to choke." So I started in on how the epiglottis covers the glottis when you swallow so you don't aspirate food or water into the trachea, etc. His response was, "Oh my gosh, shut up!" It's so exciting to me though.