Nov 16, 2006 09:31
So what's with all the geek confessions lately? Is this some kind of meme I'm just too stubborn to partake in? And what's worse is that most of the time it's just so endearingly cute... Argh! I can't even get up enough steam for a proper rant.
Hi. My name is John and I'm a geek.
It's like a twelve step program or something... worse. Because it's cute. It's popular. It's going to make my 80's-child geek brain explode. Revenge of the Nerds actually came true, and the geeks run the world. The irony! The poetic justice!
Damn. I'm really full of shit today. Had breakfast with the usual crop of old men at the cafe this morning. Everyone was a target. Too easy, really, but at least I finally let off a little bit of the pressure that's been building. It's a really small town. I mean a really, really small town. I love the lifestyle, but I could do without the racism. It's not like they're a bunch of White Supremicists or anything... they're just country folk with their own individual country folk biases. Most of 'em are actually fairly tolerant, it's just that the things that come out of their mouths sometimes make me cringe.
I honestly don't know why I continue to hang out there.
Actually, I do. It's decent coffee (doesn't taste like reheated motor oil) and the cheapest breakfast there is to be had in the county. Most of the time the food's acutally decent, too.
If they only knew they'd been infiltrated by a geek...