Last week was rather crazy. This week is also crazy. Because my brain cannot seem to handle anything other than numbers lately, here are some random thoughts:
Geek versus nerd – I know they are different but how? No one can seem to tell me without looking it up online. Do you know?
I was featured last week by Bree at The Things We Read. Go on over and check it out!
I signed up to work backstage during Holly’s two ballet recitals. It sounded like a good idea at the time.
I got my bookmarks from craft’ed, and I am thoroughly in love! Seriously, they make me happy just looking at them.
Why are track meets so long? More importantly, why must my son run in the first and the last event of each meet? I love watching him run, but it is insane how you can lose so many hours to one meet. This makes homework quite the challenge. And pretty much anything else you hoped to do that evening or day.
Holly announced to me two weeks ago that she wanted to attend Juilliard for ballet and tap. To which I said to her, “Wow! We will definitely work to make that happen!” Internally, I was tallying up the bills for private dance lessons and tuition and crying.
I want to read all the books. I do not want to review all the books. Are my super-mini reviews a total cop-out? They feel like it, but I got nothing these days.
It is not even close to summer yet, and our summer schedule is rapidly filling up. Not to mention that we have something every weekend from now until July. No wonder I am so flipping tired all the time.
The HVAC unit at work has been shut down for the past eight weeks.There is no heat, no air conditioning, and absolutely no ventilation. Now that the weather is beautiful outside, the temperatures inside are unbearable – as in 90 degrees by the end of the day. Tempers are short. People are miserable. I can only hope that they figure out what the problem is before we hit 80 degrees outside. I shudder to think how hot it will be inside.
With that, I am out of here, off to cool off from today’s roasting to prepare for tomorrow’s. Such fun!
Have a great week, everyone!
They need to get the HVAC unit working! I’m not exactly sure what the difference between Geek and Nerd is. But I guess I think of Nerd in terms of an intellectual nerd at school or whatnot and perhaps Geek as a style fool. Hmm. But I could be totally wrong
They finally got the HVAC functional on Wednesday, and not a minute too soon as our temps crept into the 80s by the end of the week. Whew. I don’t want to experience that again any time soon!
I love everyone’s take on these two terms. It seems we all instinctively know what they are but can’t define them very clearly.
Geek and Nerd are technically the same but in my mind, Nerd is not something you want to be called whereas Geek is somehow cool.
Interesting. My son and his girlfriend told me the exact opposite. Nerds are cool, but geeks are not. Go figure!
I can’t believe they still haven’t fixed the air problem! That’s insane!
You are so busy, I don’t know how you do it! And the long track meets…ugh. Any way you get to read while you wait in between?
I thought geek and nerd meant the same thing. Clearly I’m out of the loop…
I get in review slumps and have to do short ones or I’ll go crazy. Don’t feel bad about it, or reading becomes a chore instead of for enjoyment! There’s nothing wrong with short reviews. I trust your judgement and if you say it’s worth reading, I know it is!
I hope you have a good week (and they get the air fixed!!).
I know. They finally turned on the system on Wednesday. It was wonderful.
I actually don’t attend the track meets because they usually start too early and are too far away for me to get there before he runs. I do read in between sessions on those I do attend but with the gun and announcements, it can be very distracting.
You should Google to two terms and see what it says. Quite interesting.
I need to get better about not playing games on my phone. If I didn’t do that, I would have more time to get everything else done. Unfortunately, lately, that is the only thing my brain seems capable of handling. Hopefully that will change soon.
I’ve always thought of nerd as being more…mainstream? Into comics, movies, books, etc. And geeks as being more into numbers, words…the stuff behind the mainstream. Does that make sense?
Reading vs. reviewing…the story of my blogging life. Ugh.
Hope that air gets working soon! That sounds terrible!
Interesting. I think the opposite. I think of geeks being into pop culture – Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, gaming, etc. Nerds, to me, are the bookish ones who are so socially awkward that they isolate themselves behind numbers and books.
They finally got the air working on Wednesday, and people immediately started complaining about how cold it was in there. To which I wanted to slap them all and say they needed to get over themselves.