Geek Like Me
About 4:30 My mom is freaking out about me leaving.
She wants to know if I will make it here okay and I have to call her as soon as
I get there. She is very nervous about me spending a whole night with just
guys.
5:10 I arrive with out having to
stop and ask for directions (which being a woman I would have done). I am not
sure which way to go exactly but I guess and I am right. As soon as I pull up
David gets out of the barn (not knowing I had arrived) and said hi. He went
into the house and came out and asked if I needed any help, I don’t I am an
independent woman. His mother also comes out and I introduce myself. She seems
very nice and she raises birds (a little loud). I get into the barn and
everyone is sitting around with what seems like twenty screens. David clears me
a spot next to him but at this moment I don’t quite want to play. It was very
sweet of him to take care of me. Another thing to note is that I am the only
one with a laptop, everyone else has literally taken
their home study and transported it to the middle of no where. Everyone yells “Feminem” to greet me because that is my nickname. I wave
and take a seat. I don’t know everyone but I know enough to feel comfortable.
One of my old crushes is here, but that is for me to know and everyone else to
wonder. Everyone plays on (A bloody game
called –Unreal Tournment.) and dinner will be ready
in about an hour or so. I am not hungry because I had so much pizza for lunch,
when I was “with the girls”.
5:30 Someone has to use the bathroom,
since there isn’t one in the barn they were told to go out back. Thank goodness
they went in the house.
5:40 A college guy named Chris (I
think) is here. He seems nice but kinda needy.
Everyone yells across the table because everyone is plugged in and can’t here
anything but the game. I feel weird here, comfortable but like a minority. I am
totally and completely the only person missing a Y chromosome. It is strange
but atleast they don’t make me feel like sex symbol.
They all want to see what I am typing but I think it would ruin the
documentation.
6:00 A
new person shows up. He is very excited. I guess this is a very large LAN party
for a neighborhood gathering. Alex is very sweet because he treats me like one
of the guys but yet not. Jason drives me crazy he is so… Jason and it is so
intriguing. I am tired already, how am I ever supposed to make it through the
night. I should probably get hooked up now.
6:20 Still watching. I want some
help setting up but should I ask and look like a total dork? I know I can do
it, but what if I mess up… I will look like an idiot.
6:34 Well I have plugged my power in
about 1/4th of the way finished.
6:46 I am connected thanks to Joe
Bass. What a nice guy. I now just need some games and then I am good to go.
7:10 I am ready to roll. I am
totally and completely hooked up for action, I even have one whole game!
7:25 How hilarious everyone makes fun of
Alex saying that he is gay when their favorite thing
to hilarious everyone makes fun of Alex saying that he is gay when their
favorite thing to do is spend 24 boring hours in front of a computer in a room
of only guys. How homosexual is that? I am beginning to feel really bored, it
is only 7:30 and I am bored. Maybe
tonight will pick up. I
guess I expected to get a little bit more attention, kind of like
some attention but alas. I think Jason has this thing about him, he is so ….
Like Rupert Evert only not gay. That is exactly who
he is like, and he looks like the guy who plays Wolverien
in the new X-Men movie. UHHHH!
8:09 My computer is completely and
utterly retarded! It wont read the server, I hate my
computer. Why is it being so stupid? I am now re installing this stupid game
that the only reason I want to play is because everyone else is playing. Boys
are so strange, this really isn’t that fun. How fun can staring
at a screen be?
10:30 Well, it finally started. I guess
I brought it upon myself naming my character “SexyMama”.
Alex started to ask, “Jessica
10 something, want it in the butt?” Over and over and over again. It really doesn’t bother me
though, I like the attention and I am used to it from Alex. Sometimes I think
that Alex likes me but at other times I just think he is gay. He is a very
strange kid. Everyone is starting to catch on to my notes. Oh yeah and all the
guys (minus Alex and the ones I don’t know) are defending me. How nice, I feel
very safe. Also once you start to understand the games and the controls to the
games it is actually a lot of fun. I probably only killed a total of 3 people
when everyone else was killing thousands but I enjoyed my “kills”. Even if I do
loose every single round, I can totally understand why people enjoy doing this.
11:00 Very
tired. Need sleep. UHHHH Well I really liked that game but they all seem the
same to me…kill or be killed. I have to go to the bathroom again but such a
walk in the dark, cold and I don’t want to disturb anyone.
11:50 Still very tired. Not much
left for me to do because David’s computer is down. He is putting a new mother
board in at this very moment. Want sleep don’t understand how people can be
night owls. Jason is hot! I hope no one reads this. I am getting extremely
bored. Yawn, maybe I will leave early (11 more hours to go).
1:30ish Alex
played my computer for me, it was really nice. He had his arms around me and I
felt so safe and so….butterflyie. Some of these guys
are really weird, but nice. He said that my hair smelt good and he made me feel
so safe. I have been sitting next to Jason for a while. I think he is getting
really comfortable with me. Not the way it used to be. I wonder how David is? Oh yeah and Jordan
came and covered me up with his blanket. How kind and generous. These guys
aren’t used to being “with” girls, if you know what I mean, and so I think I
mean something to them. How nerdy am I? I mean I am spending a Friday day,
night, and Sat morning with 15 guys playing computer games. What would happen
if I kissed him? Not Jordan.
I wont, because guys are going to have to kiss me from
now on. I am really cold. I don’t understand how guys (only guys) enjoy this.
They really don’t do anything social. I don’t get it. They barely even talked
for the first few hours or more. I don’t get it.
