The first indication that one might have that I am a complete and total nerd comes from simply walking into my house and looking at the kitchen counter. Right now, it’s in its natural state and I don’t wish to take a picture because there are empty crystal light packets sitting on it, so allow me to paint one with words.

Let’s begin with the end that you see when you walk into my house. Currently there is a purse with keys hanging off of it sitting there, next to it is the torx socket set that my husband bought me for Christmas and a Harvey Two Face pez dispenser. Beyond that, moving further from the door, we find a small can of air and a couple of bottles of water. This is followed by my winter hat, upon which sits my iPhone. Next to the iPhone are a pair of apple headphones, followed by my external hard drive, all of which are connected to my macbook.… [Read More]

The Soft Underpinnings of a Nerd.

I started working on a list of books a while back that I was going to place on a page on this blog for all of my readers to see. It was to be a list of the greatest books I have ever read and it was taking a very long time to compile it because these books all impacted me on a very personal and very deep level. The biggest problem is that a lot of the works that really influenced the way I think aren’t full length novels at all. They’re short stories. These are harder to come by in terms of purchase but I still think it is worth it for you to read them, and for me to talk about them, especially because I really cannot make a list of works that changed the way I think and merely limit that list to novels. And in order to do the list justice, I needed to give the ideas that I had about each individual work time to percolate.… [Read More]

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