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My admission to the world that I hadn't vacuumed my apartment in almost 6 months horrified me (I hadn't realized it was that long until I did the math) so I broke down and pulled the vacuum out of storage. Actually, it was kind of blocking my pathway between my bedroom and the living room so it wasn't really being stored. Just ignored.

The last time I used it I noticed it had totally lost suction - another reason I hadn't used it in awhile - so I had to jigger with it's rusty innards for awhile. (They aren't actually rusty, but being a Star Wars fan, the word "innards" can't help but be preceded by "rusty" As in C3PO saying "What message? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!" when R2D2 won't play Leah's message for Luke. Yes, I am a geek. I just hide it well more often than not. )

You don't know this about me but I'm really good at fixing stuff. Mechanical stuff. Usually I don't know exactly what the hell I'm looking at or doing but I just "get" the way the pieces fit together and can see when they aren't right. (I also have the way of the Fonz about me. I kind of smack things and they start to work.) The vacuum was a no brainer though because when I pulled a piece out part of it said "this end up" and that wasn't the end that was up. No offense to my X but it was probably something he did. I'm just better at that stuff than he is. I always scored in the 99th percentile for spatial relations on whatever the hell tests we took back in the day. You know the ones where there is an unfolded box with symbols on it and you have to figure out what it would look like folded up again?

I still know nothing about cars though. I'd really like to know more about them. I've looked for courses before but haven't found one close enough. Oh well. At least my rugs are clean.

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Anonymous said…
I have a professor who's like that with cities. He can drive into a city, and just sort of figure out where they'd put the highway entrances and exits, the main strip, the gas stations, and the mall.

The one exception is Denver, which while it's set up in a grid, is rotated 45 degrees (so that it's like a diamond), and the highways all come in on the points, not on the sides.
8:09 AM
Anonymous said…
I got 99th on that test too! And 99th on the one where they show you a giant page of gears, and tell you one gear is moving clockwise, you're supposed to tell them which way is this other gear way the hell over here is turning. I have a knack for boxes and gears. And nearly nothing else.
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