and actually finished it last night, curled up in bed with Big Guy. I imagine by the time the weekend comes, I'll have finished the second book. I just need to prepare myself not to complain or else Big Guy will mock me. As it is, he's very insistent that I am a nerd like him. He uses my reading against me. Of course he also uses the fact that he dragged me into the gaming world against me. He tried to use my video gaming against me, but I was able to point out that gaming is actually a pretty cool thing to do. He then had to point out that most of the video games I enjoyed were pretty nerdy.
He said even my movies were nerdy. This is not true. He tried to say that since many of the movies I greatly enjoy are based on books, it made me a nerd. I disagree. I think it means I know what I like going in. Yes, I have watched more than one movie based on Shakespeare. And I have done so of my own volition. Yes, I enjoy movies based on Jane Austin novels. That is not nerdy. He then tried to use my love for the English language against me.
He said the simple fact that I teach courses in Lit and writing makes me a nerd. He said no one but a nerd would harbor the deep emotions I hold for literature and grammar. When I protested that English was cool, he said my arguments to the contrary (and my correction of his word choice) only served to enhance my nerdiness. I'm sorry, but you can't use odorous when you mean onerous.
I disagree most strongly with his views. English and the study of grammar and literature is not nerdy but "muy awesome". We even watch the TV show Castle
where the main character (played by the sexy and also awesome Nathan Fillion) tends to make me squeal like the grammar fan girl I am. If discussion on proper word usage and how to properly define "irony" are so nerdy, then why are they discussed by such an awesome character? And if loving English is wrong, then I don't wanna be right. Of course, in a world where the average American reads at a sixth-grade level, maybe being an English nerd is not such a bad thing. In the long run, it doesn't matter how nerdy others think I am, I know I'm cool and I know what I enjoy. And, besides, I will never be as nerdy as Big Guy.
OK, maybe I'm wrong.
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I LOVED the first two books in the Song and Ice series (isn't that its name? Oh, you know what I mean!). I need to get #3.
I hear you about the nerdy stuff... we have friends who are the Baron and Baroness of ... something. I don't remember.
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