The Four-Eyed Prejudice

It's soooo quiet in the office today. For some weird reason i have an image of an out-of-the-way rural western town with delapidated salons and a lone ranger wondering about in this ghost of a town....

Yes, i'm rambling and my imagination is running crazy wild. I think almost absolute silence tends to do that to you.

Everyone (with the exception of a handful of people) is gone for the Raya break. I know this sounds funny but i kinda enjoy the quiet. It's almost unheard of to be in the office and not have any emails and phone calls (unless you're one of those who come in at weekends). I find that i can focus better with the lack of interruptions, get more work done and more importantly, no stress.

I wonder if that makes me a nerd. What's your idea of a nerd?? (geek, four-eyes, dweeb..whatever you want to call it). A typical picture would be of course, someone who wears those HUGE 80's thick-rimmed glasses (which is too big for him that he has to push them up his nose every 5 seconds or so), wears trousers which the tailor had too much fun with, and..heaven forbid...suspenders.

I guess they also think that PCs are man's greatest creation and Microsoft is God.

So, for "normal" people like us (".." because normal is soooo subjective...if you don't believe me, ask any crazy person if he thinks he's normal...saying that, "crazy" is pretty subjective as well...hmmm...), who like gadgets, love our PS2s and probably can't live without a PC, are we considered nerds??

I've been called a nerd before and apparently i've got nerdy friends cos we have the same interests. Half the time i'm not sure if i should be insulted!! :)

But then again (and i'm being extremely shallow here) if you don't LOOK like a nerd, it's ok right? You can always pretend to be cool to the outside world...haha.