My little sister tagged me for this. So I am writing about 5 guilty pleasures in my life and then tagging some others to do the same.
Right…
Ground Rules: The first player of this “game” starts with the topic “5 Guilty Pleasures” and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.
1. Picking and squishing: Maybe I’m latently obsessive or something, but there’s a satisfaction to the instant visceral experience of picking and squishing. My two favorites are zits and fleas. Especially fleas, catching the little buggers as they try to scamper away and then crushing them between my nails and tearing off their tiny little heads. Very guilty, but very pleasurable. And it does help make the cats less itchy or am I rationalizing?
2. Little kids books: I can call it “research for work”, but I honestly just love children’s picture books. I read most of the new ones when they come into the library and also at the bookstore. I vary mainly between the very silly ones, like the Dumb Bunnies and beautifully illustrated stuff like Jan Brett and Grahame Base. It takes up more of a proportion of my time than it really should given the size of our collection and the other things I should be doing.
3. Being quicker on the uptake than most of my staff: This is a mean one, I shouldn’t be happy at other people’s frustration and confusion, but in a way, I feel it justifies my salary that I’m a quick study. There are things I still don’t get, but I’m much faster at assimilating new information than most of the people who work for me. I think it can lead to a dangerous tendency to be smug, so I try to at least appear humble, but I expect I’m still pretty smug nonetheless.
4. Sleeping in: I’d usually rather be sleeping, enough said.
5. Schadenfreude: or is that a tautology?
OK, I tag tiernen, deza, ari_griffin, zenfencer, j_alan_b
Confess.
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