I’m publishing old drafts:
I’ve always suspected I was a geek.
Even as well-meaning non-geek friends with more style in their pinky fingers than I could ever aspire to told me it was nonsense, I knew. Come on. I earned three letters in high school…none in sports. (Friend-points to who can guess what they were!) I have the classic hallmarks, namely being enthusiastic about niche interests to the point where it could be called obsession.
Really, I’m okay with it. I often think that journalism is the perfect place for geeks because you can specialize in anything, like getting a PhD in Life. And it’s a good time to be one, quite frankly.
Forget Revenge of the Nerds. The Aughts are the Golden Age of Geekdom.
