Summer.
Nothing interesting going on to write about? Nay! My recent lack of posting is primarily due to an ABUNDANCE of interesting things going on. I've started working @ my summer job, but only part-time for the time being. I'll move in soon though. I'm getting good pay for basic maintenance work with fun and hilarious company. But tonight, I have no plans and no car. So I'm slowing down a bit from my roller-coaster-ride lifestyle to check my email, read some webcomics and update my blog. Being a geek is the life, man.
In speaking of Geekdom, I'm sorting of having some kind of relapse to it. I used to be as nerdy as they came, back in my day. The Days of Elementary/Middle/most-of-High School(s). I sort of phased out of it when I became more of a hippie-hipster theater major at college. I still did some geeky things, but it wasn't like "Hey, I'm not popular at all because of these loser-like habits." Now, I'm not talking down about losers. I've been one, for a long long time, and part of me still is one. I've never been very popular and I do things the popular kids think is geeky. Besides getting picked on, harassed, and never having female attention, I thought being a "loser" was a pretty rad thing. In fact, my transition wasn't too radical, the hipster-theater-guy genre of personality being in the same spectrum as the geek-nerd-dork-loser. More chicks though, definitely more chicks.
Anyways, the point I'm getting at is I've noticed some cycling back to the nerd and out of the hipster. I found myself reading comic books for at least an hour yesterday. I had some hard-core video-gameage with my brother a couple nights ago too. I even picked up and read an obscure novel set in the Star Wars universe before I went to sleep this past week. These are just the physical symptoms, while mentally I've been sensing a weakness in my self-esteem, -confidence, -image, and other self- stuff too...like feeling self-conscious even. I even got a bit angsty when thinking about how I can't figure out women. That's not entirely true though, I pretty much have both women and men figured out, but that's a rant for another day. I was just feeling a bit sour and depressed about the results. It was brief. I did not cry.
This isn't a bad thing. My Inner Geek reawakening. It's good, a flux in my personality. Perhaps it's like the recipe of character traits that composes me are being altered, mixing and mashing and possibly, by the end of the summer, I might have grown some. As a person.
By the way, it is absolutely so beautiful out right now it BLOWS MY MIND,
so stop sitting at your computer reading this right now, get the hell outside, and breath for a while. It's quite... ... it's not quite anything... It is just Quite.
That is all,
Sincerely,
Travis H. Curran. Supreme Chancellor of Rad. HCF4L.
(P.S. I will do my best to update more before vanishing from the face of the Earth for nine weeks. This happens to me every summer, and it is kinda sad, but it is definitely worth it to me and is a very important part of my life. Thanks for understanding.)
In speaking of Geekdom, I'm sorting of having some kind of relapse to it. I used to be as nerdy as they came, back in my day. The Days of Elementary/Middle/most-of-High School(s). I sort of phased out of it when I became more of a hippie-hipster theater major at college. I still did some geeky things, but it wasn't like "Hey, I'm not popular at all because of these loser-like habits." Now, I'm not talking down about losers. I've been one, for a long long time, and part of me still is one. I've never been very popular and I do things the popular kids think is geeky. Besides getting picked on, harassed, and never having female attention, I thought being a "loser" was a pretty rad thing. In fact, my transition wasn't too radical, the hipster-theater-guy genre of personality being in the same spectrum as the geek-nerd-dork-loser. More chicks though, definitely more chicks.
Anyways, the point I'm getting at is I've noticed some cycling back to the nerd and out of the hipster. I found myself reading comic books for at least an hour yesterday. I had some hard-core video-gameage with my brother a couple nights ago too. I even picked up and read an obscure novel set in the Star Wars universe before I went to sleep this past week. These are just the physical symptoms, while mentally I've been sensing a weakness in my self-esteem, -confidence, -image, and other self- stuff too...like feeling self-conscious even. I even got a bit angsty when thinking about how I can't figure out women. That's not entirely true though, I pretty much have both women and men figured out, but that's a rant for another day. I was just feeling a bit sour and depressed about the results. It was brief. I did not cry.
This isn't a bad thing. My Inner Geek reawakening. It's good, a flux in my personality. Perhaps it's like the recipe of character traits that composes me are being altered, mixing and mashing and possibly, by the end of the summer, I might have grown some. As a person.
By the way, it is absolutely so beautiful out right now it BLOWS MY MIND,
so stop sitting at your computer reading this right now, get the hell outside, and breath for a while. It's quite... ... it's not quite anything... It is just Quite.
That is all,
Sincerely,
Travis H. Curran. Supreme Chancellor of Rad. HCF4L.
(P.S. I will do my best to update more before vanishing from the face of the Earth for nine weeks. This happens to me every summer, and it is kinda sad, but it is definitely worth it to me and is a very important part of my life. Thanks for understanding.)
posted by Travis H. Curran at 6/03/2005 01:47:00 PM
2 Comments:
travis: you are not and never have you been a hipster. you may be up to date on cool shit, but you ain't no hipster.
p.s. neither am i.
I used the term very loosely. It's just been brought to my attention that upon first impressions I give the appearance of a typical highly-opinionated intellectual college student who will get into an open debate on any number of issues at the drop of a hat. That may not be my, your, or anyone's definition of a "HIPSTER" but it's just an observation I've made.
Apologies about the semantics riff.
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