“Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get
thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is. But
to me and more and more people I know, being a nerd or a geek means
having passion, power, intelligence. Being a nerd just means there is
something in the world that you care deeply about—be it twelve-sided
dice, a favorite sports team, your new laptop or Night Rider.”
“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah
right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a
presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the
grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does
she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her
dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a
meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the
terminally geeky.”
