i am neurotic.

every day i must take a shower to start the day. with rare exception, my showers consist of me standing there and daydreaming for 30-150 minutes with an average somewhere around 100. paint is ruined, neighbors and roommates are annoyed, i’m late to work/class, but i still do it.

If I’m stuck somewhere I don’t want to be, I always start figuring out how much time is left before I can leave. Once I know that, I always have to figure out what percentage of time has passed and how much is left, down to the second. Once that’s done, I start figuring out how much of my life has passed while I was stuck there, as a percentage of course.

I am obsessed with digital clocks showing time that ‘adds up’. For example: 1:23 is 1+2=3. 5:49 is 5+4=9. 5:32 is 5-3=2. I am literally giddy right now as I type this, thinking about all of the number combinations there are!

I have to wait at least 4 hours after dinner to go to bed, otherwise I freak out that the food won’t digest and won’t be used.

I associate a colour to every day of the week. Also, every day is an island in my mind and has a shape. Monday – Royal Blue – Average sized, round, island shape. Tuesday – Grey – Long thin island shape, kind of like Italy’s shape. Wednesday – Yellow – Huge Round island Thursday – Black – Smaller than Monday, round island with very jagged edges. Friday – Reddish Orange – Small almost square shaped island. Saturday – Golden – Big, round, smooth shape. Sunday – Navy Blue – Has a width, double the width of Tuesday but has no beginning or end. Not a complete shape.

If I ever turn on a murder show even a minute too late (like CSI), I can’t finish it because I feel like I missed the best part and I will be confused they whole time, then I get really dissapointed and check for the next time it comes on. I then have to turn on the channel a good 2 minutes before it come on (at least) to make sure I don’t miss it again.

whenever i pee, i have to count how long it takes. if it’s more than 10 seconds, i silently reprimand myself because i think i’ve raised my risk of urinary tract infections.

i always waste cereal because if the package has been open for longer than 5 days, i would say, i find it inedible. like the air has affected it somehow and without the freshness it’ll make me sick. the same with cookies that have been out, even things in the fridge. it makes it virtually impossible to eat leftovers.

I always show up at least twenty minutes early for everything. If I’m ten minutes early, I consider myself late. If I’m on time, I’m very late, and if I’m late, I just call and reschedule because I just can’t stand the embarrassment of showing up late. (I don’t mind being 20 minutes early though)

When I’m at work and it gets to the final hour, the song lyric “it’s the final countdown!” pops into my head. It does this on the last hour, the last 30 mins, the last 15 minutes and the last 5 minutes.