The Beginning of Almost-Geek Girl.

The other day I saw a bag that said "Geek is the new Black." It made me laugh, I admit, and it also made me think. For a couple of years I've been classifying myself as a geek girl. I did this because I had played some video games, I had watched some anime, and I knew a bit of the lingo (i.e. "frag", Star Wars jokes, etc). It helped me meet my husband, a pretty large geek, and it allowed me to fit in with his friends and earn nerd street cred.

I'm not really a geek, though. Just because I have some World of Warcraft t-shirts does not mean I can fix my computer if it needs fixing. Not that WoW provides IT skills, but it shows that I am not universal in my geekage. I'm actually fairly computer illiterate. My anime knowledge is restricted to popular names, my manga collection weak, and I can count the video games I've played and won on one hand.

This blog is something of an opportunity for me; I want to be a better geek. See, it isn't that I want to gain even more of the "cool factor." I'm over that. I snagged the husband, I'm already in the "scene" (or whatever it is called), and I'm pretty comfortable with myself as a person. No, my goal is to not just know the lingo, but what it means. It would be nice to build my own computer and be able to fix it. I want to know why I should be excited about upcoming tech gear, games, music, toys, conventions...you name it.

My plans are to talk about my learning progress as well as review products and games from the point of view of an almost-geek. For other almost geeks like me, or even to help out those other ladies who agree with that bag that geek is the new black and wish to fit in, I will be discussing how noob-friendly the things I try out are--after all, not all of us are born with an innate understanding of science, computers, or even which buttons to push on an XBox controller.