Obsessions

I have a confession to make...I have an obsessive personality. Wow...The first step to recovery is admitting it, not that I want to recover from being obsessed about the things I'm obsessed about, but hey for future reference its good...
When I did Neuropsychology in my third year of uni, we took this personality test to see if we have any pathological traits (like for example, we are delusional and thus categorised as schizotypes - something I luckily didn't get called!). My personality appears to be anything but normal - which I and everyone that knows me would have long suspected! So I was officially categorised as having an obsessive personality. Now, you may all wonder why I would ever tell such personal things on the internet where anyone can read it...Well, I do it because its true and I don't really care if people know I had cancer and am a controlling obsessing science geek. Hey, those who know me knew it already, those who don't won't care!
So back to the post...
I am really obsessed about certain things, and the obsessing for each thing individually fluctuates so that at one time I'm not obsessing about all things, but rather 3 or 4 things. I should mention the most obvious two first; Books and Sarah Mclachlan - not in that order necessarily! Books, books, books...I'm really obsessed with buying them, borrowing them, having them next to my bed, in my bags, on my desk at work, in my car, sometimes in my VCR... Ok the last one was silly and not entirely true... I really love books, and if I had an infinite amount of time and eyes that didn't get blood shot so easily, I would read instead of sleep. Write now I'm completely obsessed with Isobelle Carmody. She is an amazing Australian fantasy writer who is very slow at getting new books out. A procrastinator to the core - I suspect.
My second mentioned obsession - Sarah Mclachlan, I should clarify is an amazing Canadian singer who I am not obsessed with personally, rather all her music is a passion/obsession of mine. Her CDs are everywhere in my place, I suspect part of the reason I want to move to Canada is so I can see her in concert more often. I saw her sing in person once this year in May and loved it. I was second row (near the amps which hurt my heart a little when the bass guitar was doing its thing) and she looked at me twice. Her voice is gorgeous and reckon it will be a life-long obsession of mine!
Other obsessions I have include thinking about moving out (so I collect fantastic furniture and freedom catalogs), going to uni really early just so I can tell myself that I'm an idiot, checking my friends blog for any new posts (which friend is that, I wonder?), Gilmore girls (too many episodes on tape for me! I must watch them), Immunology - especially all things Charles A. Janeway (in loving memory!), my brother's wedding (a hard thing to resist getting obsessed about), Canberra and all things PhD-related, Triple J and getting new CDs, and bitching about where I'm working!
I'm positive there are more - but at present they are the things I'm most obsessed about. To me they are things that I like being obsessed about - it saves me obsessing about the 'war on terrorism' and John Howard back in office or whether I'll ever marry Colin Firth, or if a certain someone will be living in Canberra with me, or if someone else will stop giving me hints about suicide, or that my cat will one day bring a snake inside instead of a lizard and get bitten and die!
So, that is all for today, I hope that satisfied the desire of someone who is a lovely person but such a NAG! (hehe - just kidding, sort of)...here endeth my insane rambling. I hope you all understand now why my blog is called 'insane' ramblings!