Freaky behaviour
I barely spoke at all last week. I never left the house except to go to the doctor and other than that only spoke when my mother called.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Some days i don't leave my lab and i don't talk to one person at work all day. Those are the best days around here.
At times when I have a job, I don't need to do any of this, but to transition from work-mode --where I have to fake smile and pretend to care about things while dealing with people I can't stand-- I'll come home, turn all the lights off, turn the shower on cold, and sit outside of it on the bathroom floor, on my housecoat, for ten or fifteen minutes, the idea being to empty the mind by way of concentrating on something that doesn't have enough substance to enthrall you: the sound of water running.
I think a lot of people, especially those who care about their jobs, can benefit from some variation of the second thing. If you find you can't get particulars about your job off your mind, and it's annoying your spouse or cat or whatever, at least just change your clothes, have a shower. Especially if you're still dressed for work; you're gonna get home and work will stay with you, you will reek of the coal mine nigga.
Do you ever eat in front of a mirror?
No.
I go every week day without talking to anyone most of the day, unless someone calls, or I must make a call.
I just had to make a call, an unpleasant one for more reasons than it being to a stranger, I have several more to make. Today of off to a shaky start.
The space between "photos" and the exclamation mark in the February photos thread title bugs the crap out of me.
Xenophobe.
better now
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I still feel empty inside.
I'm sorry. The freaky behavior is mine not yours.
better now
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This post , in combination with your avatar , is pure perfection .
Fucking Scerpica, making Mike feel empty and shit.
MWAH A HA H A H AAA AA A!
Evil genius!
lol
I don't like tomatoes, its a textural thing. I like pasta sauce (without stewed tomatoes) and ketsup and all that but not RAW tomato. My wife makes Pico de Gallo special for me. She cuts up the tomatoes just to the meat of it gets in and no seedy squishy weird shit.
Also when I was 8-12 I used to believe that witches could see me through mirrors and were spying on me. So I would avoid mirrors at all costs especially naked. Sometimes I would not take showers at all. Also when I use the restroom and there is a shower with a curtain I always have to check behind the curtain... just in case. I would hate to have an ax murderer in the shower catch me with my pants down.....again.
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Someone I know told me they found out someone else had been watching them via their webcam for over a week. Put some spy program on their computer so the camera was always on.
Your witches seeing you through mirrors thing reminded me.
I've never liked tomatoes but I saw a King of the Hill episode where they start eating organic and Luane is all, "These are tomatoes? I thought they were HEAVEN BALLS."
So I bought like four after that. Really pretty vine ripened tomatoes. I wanted to lick them they looked so good.
They I chopped one up and put it on my sandwich and gagged the whole way through because tomatoes are gross and they'll always be gross. And fuck them for looking so delicious.
Sometimes, I feel like a mod can look at what I'm typing, while I'm typing it whether it posts or not. But it helps me be more articulate about what getting typed. And you guys thought I did too much editing, as it is.
That's kinda like the mirror, webcam thing, I guess.
I don't really like being wet. Especially on my back. Getting in the shower is weird for me, until I'm drenched. Then it's different. It's really hard to explain.
And after I get out of the shower, you know how you dry off and you're never completely 100% dry? I don't feel right until I'm 100% dry.
It's weird too because during my workouts, I don't think about it. But as soon as my workout is over, I can't stop thinking about the sweat on me and how I just want to strip all my clothes off and dry off.
There's a lounge in my head with a door that will open only during theta; in this place there are people from all over the world. I've met some of you, too.
It doesn't last very long, maybe 10min but it's long enough for me to learn your/their secrets, and the beauty of this exp. is you're none the wiser as you guys never seem to remember it. 
And after I get out of the shower, you know how you dry off and you're never completely 100% dry? I don't feel right until I'm 100% dry.
It's weird too because during my workouts, I don't think about it. But as soon as my workout is over, I can't stop thinking about the sweat on me and how I just want to strip all my clothes off and dry off.
I know this feeling. That's why I take showers every other day. Unless I get completely filthy and have to go somewhere then I jump in the shower. I hate taking showers but once I'm in I don't want to get out, probably for the same reason of wanting to just feel dry right away.
I can't stand when people touch me with wet hands, especially on my face. I completely flip out (inside now because I've learned to control my reaction) because it feels gross and alien. I hate it.
And here I thought I was weird for that.
You are weird.
Yeah, what of it?
You're both bizarre. Being wet is awesome. I'd remain wet all the time if it didn't make everyday tasks so difficult.
You can quote me out of context on that.
On the other hand, this is disgusting. My sister used to come out of the bathroom and her hands would be dripping wet because she's an animal and doesn't use a fucking towel. When she found out how grossed out I was by that (even though she had obviously just washed her hands) she'd always try to dry them on my shirt or face. Sick.
I don't think I do anything too freaky.
You post here.
Ah. True.
And I love you freaks.
You can quote me out of context on that.
On the other hand, this is disgusting. My sister used to come out of the bathroom and her hands would be dripping wet because she's an animal and doesn't use a fucking towel. When she found out how grossed out I was by that (even though she had obviously just washed her hands) she'd always try to dry them on my shirt or face. Sick.
I hate when people have clammy hands. It's so freaky when they want me to shake them.
I don't think this is freaky, but it makes me really uncomfortable when I meet people for the first time and they want to shake hands. And the kiss on the cheek thing? I'm not cool with that either.
Well, when I meet you for the first time I will straight hug you and that's that. At least we're on the same level, no awkward hugging someone's chest.
Hugs between friends are fine. 
Oh no, I am a shaking hands person. I think it makes me look a bit square though.
And I hate air kisses and kisses on the cheek, unless we're tight, yo!
I hug and kiss most erryybody if they initiate it. And they pretty much always do. Except people I only hang out with at school or work.
I'm a cheek kisser with kids and family, but the Germans are not used to it.

Touching at all makes me uncomfortable unless it is someone I am close with and something compels me suddenly. It usually surprises me and them, because it is rare. I don't often shake hands even unless it seems formally necessary.
My sister will cuddle with me on the couch sometimes, more like lean into me, when she needs hugs over things. I've had her tell me to deal with it, and also had her thank me for just letting her lean on me for a while without pulling away.
James' family, on his dads side, are huggers. They hug to greet and to part. No matter even if there are twenty people there everyone must embrace everyone, not matter if those twenty people only were in each others presence for even just five minutes. Greeting and parting is made with an embrace. I accept it and am used to it as it is pretty much ritual. I know to expect it.
I love touching. Huggin' and cheek-kissin' is what I'm all about. But I understand most are not comfortable, so hand-shakin' be okay.
I was hanging out with a friend of mine, who's this really hippie-ish guy whose pretty damn logical and aware of reality, despite the negative connotations that come with the label. He and his roommates (a couple) are very friendly and open people, and last night we had a giant cuddle session with these girls that came over. I sincerely just wanted to cuddle, wasn't up for anything sexual, and that's just how this guy is all the time. Yeah, he'll sleep with the occasional girl or two, but he's pretty sincere when he says that all he wants is some human contact, sleeping in a pile. But never with a guy, of course. lulz
Everytime we go to a bar, he'll complain and laugh about how he can't just go up to a girl and say, "Hey, I don't plan on trying to sleep with you, but I would love to just cuddle tonight."
Si vis pacem, para bellum
I can't imagine cuddling with anyone but my husband. I'm affectionate with my kids of course, but they're too big to want to cuddle. I tell them I love them several times a day and will hug/kiss them, but they don't want to cuddle with me when we're watching movies and stuff. Giancarlo does like to claim the seat next to me so I'll scratch his back, though.
Side hugging and air kissing is big in my extended family. Also Drew's family. When/if I meet any/all of you I would probably hug you in greeting because I feel like I know all of you. Or at least I'd hug you in parting. That probably be more like it.
I miss real hippies, like that.
When I was in police school, this girl walked up to me (no greeting) Got right up in my personal space, inches from my face. She grinned and said, "You used to be a hippie, didn't you."
Me- *stutter* Why?
girl- We've been watching how you act. It's okay.
me- *stutter/blinking in disbelief* Y-yes. I mean I guess I was... YES. Yeah, yes I was.
girl- Mmhm.
That girl flunked out, and changed schools. I passed. But she was really nice, weird sense of humor.
Don't touch me. Period.
Also. When I'm seated at a restaurant I can't have my back to the door. Ever.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Oh god. Not the door, not the room.
I was hanging out with a friend of mine, who's this really hippie-ish guy whose pretty damn logical and aware of reality, despite the negative connotations that come with the label. He and his roommates (a couple) are very friendly and open people, and last night we had a giant cuddle session with these girls that came over. I sincerely just wanted to cuddle, wasn't up for anything sexual, and that's just how this guy is all the time. Yeah, he'll sleep with the occasional girl or two, but he's pretty sincere when he says that all he wants is some human contact, sleeping in a pile. But never with a guy, of course. lulz
Everytime we go to a bar, he'll complain and laugh about how he can't just go up to a girl and say, "Hey, I don't plan on trying to sleep with you, but I would love to just cuddle tonight."
I've cuddled with friends before. But I still think y'all are a buncha weirdos. I think the "giant cuddle session" is throwing me off. Did you know the women you cuddled with? Would you say you were involved in a cuddle orgy?
That's just being prepared for anything.
Sometimes though, I find myself sitting with someone who I wouldn't want to be seen with, in those situations, I face away from the door.
I think having someone to cuddle with would go a long way to solving many problems for lots of people.
I don't like cuddling. Not even pre- or post-sex.
Everyone just needs a teddy bear.
Cuddling is one of my favorite things ever, but only with that one person. Cuddling with friends is just weird to me.
One of my best friends is one of those people who just craves human contact all the time. Not because she's lonely or anything, she's constantly surrounded by people and is always in a relationship or two. When we were kids, she'd also ask me to play with her hair or cuddle or whatever. Alllll the time. She was like those cats that just rubs itself against your leg until you touch it and it bites you when you try to stop.
Or this one that Melody posted.

I'm the only person in the house that our younger kitty cuddles with. If I take her in my arms she'll rub her head against my neck, she tumbles in my bed and curls against me. With anyone else she just sits or sleeps next to them.
Also, when she wasn't yet spayed, she only rubbed against me. All THE TIME. I think she's a lesbian cat.



I have days when I only talk to my family and interact with people online. Those are the days I fight with the only friend I talk to every day.