I'm supposed to be working on a paper right now. .

let's see just how effectively i can procrastinate. .

but i was thinking last night, after reflecting on my earlier conversation with sam about the self-proclaimed geeky-ness of someone's blog, and the general geeky tendancies of his extended family, that i must be a nerd.

as opposed to a geek. now, bear with me. . but it does seem that geek connotates someone who is very technically inclined - fascinated by numbers and programming and generally math/logic heavy.

whereas your nerd is kind of more well-rounded in general. your average nerd will have a general appreciation for things mathematical and logical, and can appreciate a number that is equally divisable by two consequtive prime numbers just as much as the next guy, but at the same time, will also have a rather unhealthy fascination with books and with totally useless facts about surrealist art, and will have watched an alarming number of art house films, and probably listens to NPR.

At the same time, your average nerd probably does NOT know how to reprogram their laptop to beam sattelite images into space, nor can they calculate the exact probability that when they get to the next stop light, it will be green. So there ARE some serious limitations to being a nerd. On the other hand, your garden variety geek often doesn't know who Haruki Murakami is.

ANYHOW, that said, I definitely fall more into the nerd catagory than the geek catagory, though i suspect they are not always mutually exclusive.

Anyone wanna go hang out at Border's with me, and then catch a show at the Lemmle???