Secret Confessions of a Smart Girl

1010) Tendency to nom the brains of people who are beating me.
1001) When told to count down from 10, do so in binary (from first principles, since I don’t use binary all that often.)
1000) Excessive kibitzing.
111) Pestering for the things I want.
110) Inappropriate biting.
101) A habit of intentional misinterpretation (see 1001).
100) The giggling.
11) Either appropriate use of capitalization or capitalization in the e.e. cummings style - no role oriented middle ground.
10) Creation of irreverent honorifics.
1) Maintenance of my enlightened self interest.

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A brief thought on that last one: It has taken a long time for me to become comfortable admitting what I want - to myself and to my partners - and I still can’t do it all the time. Therefore when I can ask for what I want, or at least say it out loud, I pretty much always count it as a win. I often am not terribly invested in whether I get it, and in sub space I can usually make being denied the things I want into as big a win as getting them, but being able to ask at all is a sign of personal growth that I consider priceless.