The Sheila Variations

The "Geek" Preface

I have noticed that many of us preface many of our posts with: "I am a geek." Or "Geek alert coming at you..." or "I hate to be such a geek". I do this, too. Repetitively.

Well, I say: LET US STOP APOLOGIZING.

We are cool. We are geeks.

What "geek" seems to mean in this context is "I am incredibly passionate about something rather trivial, and I can tell you every teeny detail about that subject, and I'm kind of embarrassed at how much I know ... and yet ... here goes..."

I feel like a geek when someone asks me a random question about L.M. Montgomery (author of the Anne of Green Gables series) - and I can answer whatever question it is within 1 to 2 seconds. Literally.

I feel like a geek when discussing the Charlie Manson case, and I suddenly start talking about blood-type analysis as though I am an expert.

I feel like a geek when someone asks me a question about Marilyn Monroe. I actually don't even find group conversations about Marilyn Monroe fun at all, because I am HOLDING BACK the Geek-impulse. Everybody else is just saying, "Oh God, she was so beautiful" or "I loved Some like it hot..." and all I want to do is leap in and say, "Well, you know that when Marilyn was 2 ... " or "Josh Logan had a ton of things to say about that aspect of Marilyn..."

Geek-knowlege. One of the primary reasons to get yourself a blog.

So - "geek preface" out of the way, here is one of those posts. It is entitled "I am such a geek". The first phrase of the post is: "In lieu of having a life..."

Ah, the humanity.

But I wanted to point you over to the post, because it is QUITE interesting (all of his posts are, actually.)

Geeks usually are interesting, actually. I love it when people know random things, and are really passionate about these random things. And that's all I'm saying.

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