Geeks @ MindSay

Today's a lazy day.  I've been lounging around watching a Beauty and the Geek marathon on MTV.  It's addicting!  Who knew I could get roped into a show like this?

Dixie currently feels:

Jealous

 

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This blog is for my fellow bespectacled counterparts.

All of the specky, visually impaired, short-sighted, blind-as-a-bat, four-eyed geeks like myself.

 

All of those with 20/20 vision, or contact lenses - you won't understand.

 

Of course, wearing glasses gives you the impression that you're intelligent.

The nerds of the world spend their time sat at computers, reading books, playing video games - our eyes are damaged, so we're forced to wear these discs of refracting glass on our faces.

 

And, there's the bonus of being able to look straight ahead in a blizzard or gale - and not having to squint.

 

But then, there's the walking in the rain.

- Glasses don't come with windscreen wipers, and they SHOULD.

 

There's the swimming.

- It's pretty damn impossible to see the other side of the pool without them, for most, so stay out of our lane.

 

There's the general rough and tumble of the day.

- I've had mine knocked off my face by about four different clumsy people now.

The first one happened the day after I got them!

 

And of course, you'd have to remove them in a mosh pit.

I've knocked mine off myself many a time by forgetting to take them off before I slammed on a bit of Rammstein.

 

 

But don't forget - the worst possible thing about glasses...

 

LOSING THEM ON YOUR HEAD.

 

Seriously!

The world all laugh - when we're looking for them, they're balanced on our head.

 

"Where are they?" - we wail.

"I can't see without them!" - we panic.

 

Eventually, we're told that they're on our head.

And that's when you feel like an idiot - and you may even blush.

 

Mine steam up when I blush.

As well as coming in from the cold weather outside - there! Another downside! Steaming up!

 

 

For all of you non-bespectacled people...

When they're on our head... We don't feel them!

 

They're very light. They're designed to be.

They're comfortable too - they get fitted to the shape of our heads.

 

It's just like when you're wearing a cap, or a hairband. You don't realise it's there after a while.

 

Spare us the humiliation and the panic, two-eyed people of the world.

 

Just tell us where they are, please.

 

 

 

"Hmmm... I don't know! Where DID I put them...?"

I love geeks. They just turn me on. My new crush is someone I don't know and will never meet...which is unusual for me. His name is Wayne Lee and he is the Chief Engineer on the EDL project for NASA. You too can find information on Wayne and the EDL project by googling his name with NASA or by going to PBS's site and searching for EDL.

Maybe he'll be your new crush too.

Has anyone read Paul Feigs book Superstud?

I found the first book to be great.

However the rest was kind of a let down. I mean this guy isn't really geeky at all.

Compared to me anyways.