Dear geek,

"Do you mean geek as in the circus performer who eats the heads off of live chickens?"

Honestly, off all the random little pieces of information I know, this is not one that I would have anticipated coming in handy.  And, it came from sketch writing years ago, a scene about two home schooled students who find love despite the fact that they are socially awkward and don't get out very much.  (Believe me, it was hilarious.  And we called it 'Adventures Outside' because they only got let out every five years.  It was hilarious.)

I spent most of today in one of the local coffee shops, and there is a man who spends a lot of time there who has befriended my friends in the last four years.  Generally, I don't spend a lot of time there when I'm not with the rest of my friends, so I don't know this man too well.  But I was there long enough that he and I got to talking.  At some point he told me this story about spending time with some tennis greats, ending by saying "and that makes me a geek in the older sense, not as you guys know it, talking about skill with computers and stuff." 

"Well, I thought you were going to go back to the original definition of circus performers who eat the heads off of live chickens."  And then he just stared at me, "Hannah, I can't say that I've ever been bested in conversation quite like that before..."  At which point he wrote it down in his iPhone.  I felt so honored to be memorialized this way. 

Also, I applied for my first job today.  Here comes the end. 


love,
hannah