A couple of weeks ago Sam Bowling over at SingleHop asked me (and a bunch of other
bloggers) to join them in celebrating Embrace Your Geekness Day on July 13. It’s
also Gruntled Workers Day, which is celebrated by complimenting fast food
workers.
If you’ve been following along at home, you’ll know that
around this time last year I blogged about how I’m not sure I’m a geek at all,
even though my grandmother was an honorary crew member of the USS Enterprise. I agreed to blog for Embrace
Your Geekness Day anyway, because even though I don’t feel like much of a geek,
I do have a cat whose confirmation name is Admiral James T. Kirk, so there’s
that.
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| Shoe Fatty FatFat Admiral James T. Kirk Pocket Von Fittington III. Catholics have such long names. |
I’m not really into video games or techy stuff, but I’ve
been given to understand that my fondness for BBC programming is geeky. I don’t
think it’s geeky at all, but I’ve probably just internalized the opinions of all
the British people I know. I like to pretend that my love of the BBC stems from
living in Chamonix around British people for all those years, but I loved to watch
Dr. Who and Are You Being Served? and Keeping
Up Appearances on PBS when I was a kid. I don’t watch Dr. Who anymore because no Doctor can replace the fourth Doctor in
my heart.
As I’ve discussed before, I come from a Star Trek family, and I don’t speak Klingon or anything, but the
object of my first awkward childhood crush was Mr. Spock. Even as a girl, you see,
I was into emotionally unavailable men.
Other things that probably make me a geek include:
- I have read all of Terry Pratchett’s books, most multiple times. Terry Pratchett is the source of my all-time favorite quote, “Rules are there to make you think before you break them.”
- As a teen, I was a big fan of the Beat Generation and Jack Kerouac in particular. His first language was French so, in order to really understand his frame of mind, man, I decided to start taking high school French when I was 16. That bizarrely-thought-out decision led to a French degree and a profoundly altered life. In retrospect I’m glad I decided to take up French instead of alcoholism. Good call, Proto-Marge.
- I have been to the Louvre more than two dozen times. I still haven’t seen it all. Fucking thing is huge. I kept getting lost.
- I have read The Hobbit over a dozen times. You’d think I’d have just bought another book, but no.
- I read books about daily life in Europe during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period for fun.
- I have a zombie apocalypse preparedness plan. It involves getting torn to pieces because who am I fucking kidding.
