You know you’re a geek when…
1. A co-worker mentions craving a Twinkie after watching a movie and you say, “Oh, you watched Zombieland?”
2. You can’t name the seven dwarfs, but you can name the eight members of the fellowship of the ring.
3. People tell you (as an adult) that you should be princess Leia for Halloween.
4. You select your flatware because the pattern reminds you of LOTR.
5. You knew Juliet couldn’t possibly live on LOST because of V.
6. You can quote Patrick Stewart’s monologue introduction for TNG. “Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise…”
7. You enjoy conversations with your spouse about Star Trek’s errors with the Universal Translator. If it was really a universal translator, people wouldn’t have accents and Warf couldn’t say, “Kaplah!” because it would be translated. Don’t even get me started on the transporter.
8. Your husband’s supervisor declares you a Level 4 Geek. (Yes, that really happened to me. He asked me what LAN stood for, among other things.)
9. You know the date when the New Moon movie comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray.
10. You saw The Two Towers five times in theaters (Three of those were dollar movies! Don’t judge me!) and the midnight premiere of The Return of the King.
11. Someone says, “Hey my computer won’t-” and you cut them off with “Did you try rebooting it?”
12. You marry a guy who dressed like Darth Vader the night Episode III premiered and dueled Jedi friends in front of a theater audience (People took pictures with him and his “realistic” light saber).
Ah, ‘scuse me? #6 is NOT Patrick Stewart’s monologue, it’s Captain Kirk’s monologue. I was a charter member of the Star Trek club when I was in 4th grade–in the sixties, girl child, long before you were born–we used to run from the school building out to the playground in formation–’cause we were “beaming up” of course!
Now, some of the rest of it you have me on, but Star Trek–don’t be pulling the “Star Trek” card! Those guys were cute!
Oh my GOSH what a great list. (You WOULD make a great Princess Leia!) You are too funny girl.
I proudly fly my Geek Flag.
And there were nine members in the Fellowship, not eight.
Karen, you’re right! I can’t believe I miscounted. Guess I’m still just a level 4 Geek.
I didn’t know you were a geek too! Yayyy for geek girls. I’m a computer tech, a closet Star Trek (Next Gen is my fav) fan, and lover of all books/movies fantasy. Great list!! I think I just started loving your blog even more.