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No, despite being basically an introvert. My teacher-nature overrides that, and I've taught many classes.TPBM enjoys writing letters to people.
Yes. It saddens me that the letter is widely considered obsolete in favor of email. I personally believe that letters are more thoughtful.TPBM is often confused by popular culture.
Hmmm. Not confused, I don't think. Puzzled, I would say, more than confused. But I am someone who reads Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and Chinese and Greek philosophers, so I am quite sure popular culture would find me at least equally puzzling or confusing.TPBM enjoys reading the letters of significant historical figures.
Yes, I feel like you can learn a lot about them that way TPBM wonders how people who live in high rises get their furniture up so many floors.
Hopefully, they have an elevator in their building. If not, they're screwed.TPBM enjoys listening to the Death Angel song “Volcanic”.
I've not heard of the song or the band. So no for now. TPBM has a love-hate relationship with YouTube.
Lol! Not at all. I consider it another human invention used to communicate and as such will be inherently and naturally ambivalent. TPBM loves that they can find instruction videos tondo anything on YouTube.
I've learned from diy and cooking videos that watching someone do something doesn't give you the ability to do it, but it's still nice.TPBM has learned this the hard way as well.
Yeah, fixing my friend's laptop didn't go exactly as planned. TPBM has finished an entire bag of potato chips in one day.
I've done that before. Hell, I've eaten entire large pizzas before.TPBM wants to be a demonic clown for Halloween sometime in the future.
Yes. It was a half ounce bag of Herr's. ;)
And Deepak about the "love/hate" relationship I can relate. I hate the problems that YouTube is having now. From channels getting their content flagged because ultimately there were movie companies upset at the criticism to their film and they found a loophole in the Content ID rule, to the whole controversy of the Fine Bros thing, I have been feeling like my relationship with YT is to quote Facebook "Complicated." hehe.
But I do still love it and try my best to keep supporting the Youtubers that I love even when they are struggling now.
Okay off my tangent...
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TPBM needs their coffee desperately today.
I needed it. So the answer was yes and now it isn't. I need tea now. TPBM wants to discover new music.
I've been hooked on only listening to The Killers for about a year, so I probably SHOULD discover new music TPBM loves the smell of old books
Usually, but the moldy smelling ones are the exception. TPBM is sorting through his/her library to let go of the books that no longer give her/him joy.
The only books that qualified were from the Fifty Shades trilogy. I gave the first installment to my now ex-girlfriend as a Valentine's Day gift back in 2014 and the other two are going in a future yard sale.TPBM is scheduled for a visit to the chiropractor’s office.
I wish! My chiropractor is so good I see him only every 5 or 7 years at .ost.TPBM likes to juggle.
I can't even catch a single moving object let alone juggle. TPBM is craving cake.
I'm more of a cookie person, so not really TPBM loses all hope for humanity when they pass the romance novel shelf in a bookstore?
No kidding. Ugh!TPBM thinks listening to an hour-long CD of people screaming in pain is sadistic.
Hmmm. If you have chosen to do it, then it is masochistic.TPBM is thinking about reducing or eliminating sugar from their diet.
I've already done so and my face looks a lot thinner than it used to.TPBM enjoys a nice long nap after a day at the gym.
A 'day' at the gym? I haven't spent a day at one. The most was about three hours and did not feel like napping.TPBM is thinking it's time to get back to a gym to do weight training.
I'd love to do weight training, but my left shoulder is hypermobile and I don't want my arm to pop out in the middle of a lift.TPBM wants to watch “Django Unchained” if he or she hasn’t already.
Not at this time, although I really enjoyed it. I am too busy, these days, to watch movies.TPBM is puzzled how one can be too busy to watch movies.
I personally can watch movies anytime I want since I don't have a day job. The only reason why I don't is because most of my free time is used trying to wake up from mental tiredness. Thankfully, it hasn't been much of a factor these days due to my exercise and diet regimen.TPBM wants to see “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.
Not super interested.TPBM is starting the weekly shopping routine.
Nope. I usually shop once a month and so the stuff usually lasts for a month.TPBM thinks sunflowers are pretty,even if yellow isn't their colour.
I do. And I like eating their babies, too.TPBM enjoys eating nuts.
Hell no. TPBM gets angry when someone makes a lovely batch of brownies and decides to fill them with nuts
And not just with brownies! >< So annoying!TPBM is not so proud to be a night person.
Yes. I want to change my sleep schedule as soon as possible. And I'm embarrassed to tell people that I lately am a night person too.TPBM wishes Pop-Tarts didn't come in tempting twos.
I don't eat Pop Tarts anymore, so I don't have to worry about being tempted.TPBM has a hyena laugh.
Nope, but a silly one nonetheless.TPBM finds it rather wonderful that laughter is perhaps even more unique to each of us than even our finger prints.
I agree! Laughter is very beautiful. TPBM loves that handwriting is unique though we're all taught to write the same way.
I had never thought of that. Thank you, Angie. I find that very beautiful. TPBM has a favourite blend of tea.
I haven't acquired a taste for tea yet, actually. TPBM likes the overacting in old movies?
Not really.TPBM has at least sixty pens in his or her house so that there won’t be a shortage.
I wish. I have a few in my backpack and that's it. [I HAD to add this, I love the overacting :D]
TPBM found the story/poem that he/she wrote for this week to be very dark.
My story contained transphobic bullying, so yes, that's about as dark as one could get.When choosing a story topic, TPBM always tries to find one that’s underrated.
Not always, but I do like to look at the underside of the topic.TPBM finds that when s/he gets interested in a foreign language author after reading his/her books in English, that TPBM would like to learn that writer's native language.
After taking two years of Spanish in high school and barely remembering it today, learning a foreign language isn't on my list of priorities right now.TPBM thinks it’s amusing that the main character in A Clockwork Orange is named Alex (which translates from Latin to “without law”).
I haven't read or watched it. TPBM thinks astrophysics is cool.
Yes, although not as cool as metaphysicsTPBM is curious about the paranormal.
(Nice). I do get curious about it sometimes.
TPBM gets annoyed by children.
Not at all. I find them full of wonder. Even when they're being "obnoxious", they're really just searching for knowledge. TPBM finds the cognitive research of Piaget interesting.
Piaget has never attracted my curiosity, although I have read snippets of his ideas and references to him.TPBM has read Alice Miller's criticism of most conventional psychology as it pertains to children's experiences.
No, I haven't, but I'll be sure to check her out. TPBM finds that they're best at solving puzzles when mentally exhausted.
I haven't found that to be the case, although my being a schoolwork procrastinator lead me to too many last minute saves.TPBM tends to underestimate how long projects will take, perhaps because s/he overestimates how easy it will be for him/her to do it.
I've done that before with a coloring assignment in high school. The coloring was just menial labor, but the number of pages...UGH!TPBM thinks the Puppy-Monkey-Baby from the Mountain Dew energy drink commercials is cute.
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As a socially awkward introvert, I'd definitely say that's the case. I'm not into small talk at all as the barbers at Hair Masters will probably attest to.
TPBM has a fear of public speaking.