Are you fidgety?

Even as I read this thread I found myself chewing on the wet washcloth I have for my forehead. I can't even stop fidgeting when I'm sick.

 

Wait. Biting nails makes one fidgity? Damnit!

 

Agreed. I don't click pens, tap my foot or rearrange stuff on my desk, but I can't sit still for very long. I spin my chair around at work, or if I'm on the couch watching TV I get up and check e-mail during commercials.

I'm also stressed out almost all the time. I think the two tendencies are related.

 

I've gotten into the bad habit of being a computer fidgeter. I've got at least two Internet windows open, my messenger, iTunes and sometimes a word doc.

 

I'm very similar to Headbutt. (Step away from the ledge, sir.) I chew my nails, play with my hair; it's the Italian grease, I'd tell my ex-girlfriend. I used to bite my pen tops before I bought clicky-top pens. Sometimes the only exercise I get is when I bounce my feet while working or walk around the house while on the phone. I love to pace, too.

 

So Headbutt's not Italian. I get it.

Shit. I don't know how I forgot this. I am a constant drummer. I've never really played the drums, though it doesn't stop me from belting out the occasional solo on my steering wheel, computer, desk, legs, chair, head, counter, stomach, phone. You name it, and I'll wrap out a decent beat on it.

 

I think I drive my coworkers crazy because I tap on the desk all the time and if I am up and not tapping the desk I probably have a pen in my hand and I am taking the cap on and off, on and off, on and off.

I am a fidgeter, but only when sitting at a desk or reading. If I am watching a movie or laying on the couch, I am pretty still, as long as I am interested in what I am watching.

 

That describes me pretty well, too.

 

Not sure if I'm a fidgeter, but I hate sitting still for more than 5 minutes at a time. And I'm a world-class pacer. I LOVE buildings with long hallways.