My name is Irma and nobody calls me that.

Irm, Irms, Tubes, Tubie.  Doesn’t really matter.

I went to school (K-12) in Caruthers, California, college at the University of Toledo, Ohio, and now I live here,  in Fresno.

I don’t really know what I’m doing with a blog, except that I feel it’s a good idea to have one.  Plus, it makes it easy to update the interested on the medical saga.

I have goals to get another degree, be debt-free by the time I’m thirty, and to learn to play children’s songs on the guitar to entertain my neice and unborn nephew.

I have a best friend that is smarter than anybody I’ve ever met; though she has no idea how smart she is. And I have a mom who is much cuter than moms are supposed to be.

I freelance for a number of companies, non-profits, individuals, and work on side-projects with my friends.  Writing code, writing specs, designing things, fixing things… the usual nerd stuff.  I like being a geek.  I get to learn a lot, and when my friends go through their address books and start deleting people, they remember how useful I am, and I get to stay  I wish more of them would blog, though, so I’d have someone to link to.

Here are bunch of things about me that might tickle your fancy:

1. I’m bad at sleeping. The same way some people are bad at sports or trivia, I’m a bad sleeper. It’s a skill I could never master.
2. I don’t like my food to touch. If there are two items on a plate that were not prepared together, I will spend time separating them. This is mostly an unconscious habit, but that doesn’t mean people don’t make fun of me for it.
3. I don’t have any irrational fears. It’s not like things don’t scare me, but I can’t say stuff like, “I’m afraid of heights, ” because I’m not.
4. I don’t like to sleep with pants on. It’s not dirty, I just don’t like it.
5. Smell is very important to me. Like a pregnant lady, I can smell things a mile away. I even sniff my glasses before I pour a beverage.
6. I have very strong jealous tendencies.
7. My sister is the funniest person I know and I am not jealous of that quality.
8. My brain is anatomically different from your brain which puts me at a greater risk for stroke, but I match none of the usual criteria that normally makes someone a stroke risk.
9. I move my feet at all times. Even in my sleep.
10. I love candy and I brush my teeth >4 times a day.
11. I avoid lying because I am a bad at it and not necessarily because it’s wrong to lie.
12. I quit my job and moved to the Caribbean for several months — on a whim.
13. I lived in New York for two months on a very tight budget. During the day I would walk around Manhattan for hours and hours. I never got to the top of the Empire State building because I never had $18 bucks to spare.
14. Talking on the phone makes me feel awkward. I have no “phone rhythm”.
15. I dread the moment the waitress comes to our table when it’s time to order. Ordering also makes me feel awkward. I would much prefer someone do the ordering for me.
16. I believe in prayer.
17. Politics, in general, are a huge turn off. I don’t enjoy political discussions because I don’t believe most of the words being spoken.
18. I don’t believe I’ll ever work at the same job for more than five years, and I don’t have a problem with that.
19. Ever since I was little, I’ve felt pretty certain that I would die young. I don’t have a problem with that either.
20. People that don’t have strong feelings bother me.
21. I’ve had gray hairs since I was eleven years old.
22. I’ve been told I was “freakishly strong” by over a dozen people. Not all of them know each other.
23. I’ve never had a single drink of an alcoholic beverage, or intake of any kind of illegal drug.
24. I have long eyelashes. Sometimes I like to pull them out when I’m working. I have to stop doing that.
25. I am irked when people say, “If there’s anything I can do, let me know.” Even when they mean it.