Speak Out With Your Geek Out

I am proud to consider myself a geek. While my junior high and high school years were the character-building years wherein I determined I'd rather be weird than normal (much to my mother's chagrin), it wasn't really until college and beyond that I finally got to the point where I could say 'fuck it' as to whether people liked me or not, and just be myself regardless - which included re-claiming the nerd, geek, and dork names I had been called growing up.

I share this reclaiming with a number of people, from Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day to Joss Whedon and Steven Moffat: people who are not ashamed to proudly proclaim that they are indeed geeks. In fact, I had heard about Speak Out With Your Geek Out via the online comic Dork Tower which I read because it's "funny because it's true" humor about geeks and geek life.

So, per the blog, I am writing to share my enthusiasm and love of some my various things I feel I am a geek about. I am not detailing everything - otherwise, this blog entry would be a novel (and Wheaton's already done that), but these are the ones that come to mind.

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