Ercassesanwi - August 23rd, 2005
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An Interactive Post
I know I have no right to ask others to interact with my journal, as I have gone for two months without updating or checking on theirs. I plan to ask anyway, but I find confessing that I am in the wrong alleviates some of my feeling of guilt. That said . . .
Holly presents You Might Be a Nerd If . . .
Rules for Interaction:
1) Read my list first.
2) Refrain from using profanity, vulgarity, or obscenity in replying to my journal, please.
3) Make your additions autobiographical (or perhaps biographical if you have a friend whose exploits would make good additions). It's much funnier that way.
4) Although my list is confined to my areas of nerdiness, all areas are welcome.
5) Please make your additions a reply to my post here. Then feel free to post this list, along with any additions you choose, in your journal or elsewhere.
You Might Be a Nerd If . . .
. . . if you didn't know who Brad Pitt was until your junior year of college.
. . . if you find good grammar in the opposite sex a turn-on.
. . . if you have more crushes on fictitious people than real people.
. . . if the only place you are ever fashionably dressed is a Renaissance faire.
. . . if you keep an issue of Modern Fiction Studies as bathroom reading.
. . . if you have a William Shakespeare action figure on your desk.
. . . if next to the Shakespeare action figure you have two fully-decked-out plastic medieval knights.
. . . if you have ever purchased an Oxford English Dictionary as an impulse buy.
. . . if you spend more than two months reading the unabridged Les Miserables purely for your pride.
. . . if you must restrict yourself to reading Jane Eyre only once a year.
. . . if after your annual reading of Jane Eyre, you begin unconsciously to speak Victorian English.
. . . if you can speak a dead language.
. . . if you have to tell yourself that knowing Quenya isn't quite as nerdy as knowing Klingon.
. . . if you still have a secret desire to learn Klingon.
. . . if your roommate, who hasn't read the book, knows more about the Keirsey temperament sorter than most people who have.
. . . if you cannot forgive yourself for not buying that medieval-folklore encyclopedia when you had the chance.
. . . if you never have enough bookshelves.
. . . if you attempt to organize a Beowulf reading primarily as an excuse to drink mead.
. . . if it's a toss-up between going to a movie or discussing predestination (again).
. . . if you take Keira Knightly's playing Elizabeth Bennett as a personal insult.
. . . if you reminisce about homework.
. . . if your dream job includes access to a university library as a "perk."
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) queserasarah may object to my use of the general second person. To her I reply that I chose this format to call to mind the Jeff Foxworthy redneck jokes, to which my list owes a significant debt.
I had planned to post something more, but I promised myself I would sort through my paperwork tonight. Also, I am more likely to post again soon if I wait on this one.
I can't wait to read your replies.
Current Mood: nerdy
Tags: nerd
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