{"id":910,"date":"2012-02-13T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/?p=910"},"modified":"2012-02-13T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:58:13","slug":"what-geology-did-to-me-2-flamingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/2012\/02\/what-geology-did-to-me-2-flamingo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Geology did to me #2 – flamingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have an odd habit. My wife mocks me for it, good-naturedly, but I am slightly\u00a0embarrassed about it.<\/p>\n

No, not that! What it is, I always stand on one leg while tying my shoelaces, like a mad boot-wearing flamingo. To be precise, I rest one ankle on the opposite knee, like a Buddhist monk frozen in the act of jumping\u00a0up to answer the phone. As if this wasn’t daft enough, I’m not very good at it so I sometimes fall sideways onto the wall, or hop around gracelessly.<\/p>\n

This is something Geology did to me, since I picked the habit up in the field. An Irish field, to be precise, which is always, always damp. I wore boots and the laces came undone. When I knelt down to do them up, in the traditional fashion, I got a wet knee. I didn’t like getting a wet knee and so developed my odd habit.<\/p>\n

Now I mostly tie the shoelaces of my shiny shoes by the front door, where the only risks to the dryness of my knee come from my potty-training son. Standing on one leg is therefore a kind of atavism, like calling CDs tapes, (or using CDs for that matter). I\u00a0still carry on doing it though, as it would take conscious effort to change and I rather like a bit of randomness in life.<\/p>\n

Do other field geologists do this, or is it just me?<\/p>\n

* Flamingo image from\u00a0yumievriwan<\/a>\u00a0on Flickr, found via eng.letscc.net<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have an odd habit. My wife mocks me for it, good-naturedly, but I am slightly\u00a0embarrassed about it. No, not that! What it is, I always stand on one leg while tying my shoelaces, like a mad boot-wearing flamingo. To … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-geology-did-to-me"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/metageologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}