When I am busy…
You remind me
When I have questions…
You enlighten me
When I am lonely…
You connect me
When I am bored…
You let me play
When I am stressed…
You distract me
When I feel sexy…
You hook me up
Dingle, dingle
I love the sound
that comes around
when gmail’s abound
dingle, dingle
Hi. My name is Jen and I’m a geek.
As a software developer, one would think that I would have realized this long ago. But it has only been recently that I’ve begun to accept my geekness. For YEARS I have claimed to be a non-geek. I thought I was too cool. That being a geek was such a horrible thing. But, my friends (or myself since I’m the only one to read this), I’m here to claim that I’m actually quite proud to be a geek.
I believe my initial negative reaction to “geek” was that I had it completely confused with “nerd”. I know… I know… I’m not going to go into some long dissertation on the differences between a nerd and a geek. If you’re interested in that… you can look it up on the internets. 
My quick definition is simply this: A geek is someone who is into computers (sofware… hardware… whateva), blogging, memorizing movie lines (I’ve debated this one and given in), waiting in lines at midnight for the latest <insert craze here>, and so on and so forth. A nerd… again in MY definition… is simply a geek that is socially inept.
So, by that definition, I’m totally geekalicious. As a part of coming into my geekness I’ve decided to try new things… allow myself to fully embrace my geeknocity (I know, bare with me, I enjoy making up words… GEEK!).
I played World of Warcraft with my co-workers for couple months. They made fun of me becuase I had never really played any games like that before and had no idea how to move my character around. I also got more excited when I learned how to make my character dance (she did the Macarena!) and flirt than I did actually moving up in levels. I finally decided that WoW really wasn’t my cup of tea, however I’m happy that I gave it a shot! Now at least when they make references to WoW on “Big Bang Theory” I totally know what they’re talking about!
I have also recently become more engaged and interested in SEO and how as a developer I can actually accomplish the recommendations by our in-house SEO. It’s one thing to know the WHAT… but it’s completely different to know the HOW. A couple weeks ago I went to the SMX Advanced Developer’s day. I met some geek rock stars (I’m not a name dropper so I won’t go into specifics). I met the Google guy, a couple Microsoft guys, the SEOmoz guy… and mom and a bunch of other very cool, highly knowledable people. I really look forward to continuing to gain more and more knowledge and helping to “spread the word” to the rest of my team.
Ok. This is enough “geek” for tonight. Eva is with Rudy so I’ve stayed up much later than I normally would. Time to get some rest though, that sweet little smile will be here firs thing tomorrow morning.
-J
