Why I am a dork

[brigdh]

Got tagged by squirrelarmy.

List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme.

1. My ultimate "I'm dorkier than you" qualifier that I use whenever this topic happens to come up in coversation (which is surprisingly often) is that I was voted 'most unique' in my high school. Out of 126 people (which, alright, is actually a very small graduating class), including several who talked to themselves in public, two who were dating fifty-year-old married men, and one who stole old band uniforms from the basement (my school hadn't had a band in decades) and wore them to class, I was 'most unique'. As my best friend at the time told me when I tried to laugh it off, "It isn't funny. It means they think you're weird."

I hate everyone I went to high school with so very much. But I did get an extra picture in the yearbook for it.

2. Speaking of high school, I drove my junior year religion teacher (I went to a private Catholic school) into giving up on my class halfway through the year. We watched movies every day for the next five months. That woman must have hated me passionately. I'm sure the last thing any religion teacher wants in their class is a pissy, self-righteous, teenage atheist who's been in Catholic school for fourteen years and can quote chapter and verse better than most priests. I feel that getting into daily debates about obscure points of Catholic theology, practice and history and proving the teacher wrong most definitely qualifies me for dorkdom.

The other people in my class appreciated it when she finally gave up on me, though. Erin Brockovich was so much more entertaining than Pontius Pilate.

3. I have Titanic on DVD. I know, I know, I'm so ashamed of myself. But... tragic! historical! love story! I cannot resist.

4. I own so, so many books. When I started college three years ago, I did a thorough cleaning of my room, and ended up donating multiple large trash-bags entirely full of books to charity. That cleared up just about enough space that I no longer had to stack books on the floor, but could fit them all on my bookcases (of which I owned four at the time). Currently, I have five bookcases- all completely full- as well as two waist-high piles and one knee-high pile on the floor. The piles are divided into "read", "not yet read", and "manga" (which is the shorter one). I saw one of my aunts this afternoon, and she happened to ask me how I knew what books I wanted to read. I contemplated this for a few moments before making up some polite answer ('recommendations and review columns', I think I said), but really, for me the question is more like "how do you convince yourself that Barnes&Nobles does not need all the cash you're currently carrying, because for the love of God, that "not yet read" pile is going to be taller than you".


5. I don't have a driver's license. I'm 21, and I do not know how to drive. Well, I know enough that if there were some terrible emergency and I had to drive, I wouldn't crash, but there's no way I could pass the test. I'm not afraid of it, I'm just lazy and not particularly motivated to learn because I'm holding out hope that I will spend the majority of my life in major metropolitan areas where it's not a necessary skill.

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Comments

[rubyd.livejournal.com]

lol, no #2 just means you rock. Score one for knowledge!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Word!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Knowledge is power. And power should always be used to get the chance to watch cheesy movies in school. ^^

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I prefer the term geek. ;-P

[weirdquark]

I'm fond of nerd, myself.

In my high school the girl who was voted 'most unique' the year before I graduated wore tinfoil mini skirts and big cloaks. And the boy wore skirts all the time. Not drag, just skirts. He was the one we said would get voted in as homecoming queen, if my high school was the type that did such things.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Really, tinfoil miniskirts? Wouldn't that hurt? Although now I'm wondering if she made them herself or if you could buy them from somewhere, and obviously I'm thinking about the whole thing too hard. *grins*

There was a girl in the year below me who wore a duct-tape skirt once. I'm fairly certain she was Most Unique for her grade.

[weirdquark]

I don't think it would hurt -- she always wore tights or leggings under them. And I think she made them.

The guy in the tinfoil thong in the Pride parade last weekend? I can't imagine that being terribly comfortable.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

...even the thought of a tinfoil thong is uncomfortable.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Geek does sound so very much cooler than dork.

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

yay!!! another person that doesnt know how to drive, not because they're afraid to, but because they just DONT WANT TO! YAY!

Booklovers are more fun anyway! ^_^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, you too? There's not very many of us; most people seem shocked when they find out I don't know how.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Not to worry. When you get out of there, people will just think you're from New York, and brace themselves for your superior smile and inevitable lecture about the value of decent urban mass transit.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I forgot to say: I hate your friends from high school. I think I may have said it before, but I hate them enough to repeat it. What kind of a friend goes out of her way to tell you that people are being unpleasant about you? When it might not even be true??

Also, "most unique"? What do they teach them in these schools?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. She was right; I just would have preferred to pretend to be oblivious.

*snerks* You'd think the yearbook staff would have all the grammarnazis...

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

i know the feeling. after all, its better for the environment anyway, right? ^_^

[squirrelarmy.livejournal.com]

1) Your best friend reminds me of my best friend. When I was bemoaning that people didn't like me one day, she looked at me and said, "Don't worry, not everybody hates you. Just the vast majority." And hey, at least you got a picture in the yearbook!
2) OMG YOU ROCK. [totally argued herself hoarse during Theology class last semester]
3) Well, I'm not one for love stories, myself, but I can understand where you're coming from. I enjoy historical movies~~.
4) I don't own as many books as you, but I totally want to.
5) [didn't get her driver's liscense until she was 17, and then only because her father made her] If you live in a place where you can walk/ride bike to most important places, being able to drive is a moot point.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

1. *laughs* And I thought best friends were supposed to be comforting!

4. Try not to become addicted. I could so easily just go to the library instead, but I'm lured by the appeal of keeping my own copy. Crack addiction would be cheaper.

5. Exactly! When I'm on campus- which is the majority of the time- it doesn't really matter, because there's public transportation in the city. It's only when I'm at home, far out in the distant suburbs, that I feel the lack of a liscense.

[rinoared.livejournal.com]

#2 and #5 only make you ubercool. Well, a big geeky one, but still :D I like Titanic too.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins*

And here I thought I was revealing my shameful secrets. If I'd known people would think they were cool, I'd have talked about them a lot sooner. And more often. XD