Nerdy and Loving it

Lets get something straight: I don't consider myself the nerdiest person I know. I would however put myself in the upper echelons of nerd-dom though. I have a very broad, yet random taste in everything. I love 80s music, I love watching Food Network, I love reading fantasy novels, watching epic fantasy movies (I just saw Chronicles of Narnia tonight), I'm a tech geek, and lets not forget my over-arching obsession with video games. Pirates, Ninjas, Bounty Hunters, Space Cowboys, Hot Shot Rogues, Assassins, all personal favorites of mine.

I've also recently developed a taste for things in the vein of the finer arts. I can't see myself going to a stuffy museum to ponder some kind of disfigured artwork any time soon, but I don't mind doing the whole broadway musical/classy theater/opera show thing either now. There's a student group here at MSU called "Culture through the Arts" that provides financially-challenged college students such as myself free tickets to culturally educational and/or charged programs at both the Wharton Center and Fairchild Auditorium, two of MSU's larger theater-type settings, so I've gone to an event or two through that, and had an enjoyable time.

The point of all this though is, that no matter how off-the-wall my choice of interests seems, I love it, and take pride in it. I closely treasure my nerdiness, it's my seperation from the mindless drones that surround me, and their interests in what I consider to be much more superficial things, like jean sales at Express, and conversations about how hawt Bipasha Basu is. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, I indulge in all of them from time to time too, but it gets old fast. Is that all you're really concerned with?

Now if only I could find more people that had similar tastes in life as I did. Maybe it's better that I don't though, so that I can preserve that sense of unique identity that this characteristic of my life provides for me. Off to find something random I go!