I have calluses from card shuffling.

Writing Territories
Fears – My grandmother’s health
Annoyances – Computer Illiteracy
Accomplishments – Schoolwork (?)
Confusions – Where all my time goes
Sorrows – Mistakes (Hello, conformity)
Dreams – Becoming a Polymath, getting a 100% on the physics web homework
Idiosyncrasies – Fidgeting with things in my hands, popping joints
Risks – Straws and pointy objects near my eyes
Beloved Possessions, Now and Then – My computer, a stuffed shark
Problems – trying to focus on learning one subject at once

Right now, as I’m typing this, I’m also shuffling a deck of cards. I don’t know why, but it’s one of the various things that I do with my hands constantly. It’s not something that I do whenever I feel like it, I just do it randomly. It started a few months ago, when I learned how to shuffle cards (yes, I know, it’s a bit late). Since then, it had essentially devolved from practicing to a bad habit. On a scale of one to ten on the annoyance factor, my family has pretty much agreed that it’s about an eight or nine. Even without any decks of cards to shuffle, anything that happens to be in my hand – a pencil, calculator, or phone – I’m either constantly messing with it or just spinning it around in my hands.

I also compulsively “pop” my joints. It originally started with popping the right side of my jaw, but that was bad for my teeth’s alignment, so I stopped that while getting braces. It’s not as annoying as card shuffling, but some people are less tolerant of the sounds that popping joints make. I don’t know why, but popping joints relieves the stiffness in my body. It was almost a process, starting from popping my fingers to popping my sternum. I know there are studies showing that it’s potentially harmful in the long run, but I’ll just have to deal with it later.

…I really should stop shuffling these cards.