my inner geek

Then we took the commuter train down to Fredericksburg and had a visit with good friends from College, Dan and Hannah. Well, Hannah was more my friend and Dan was more my brother's friend, but since they were already dating at the time it all mixed together pretty well... We were all part of a club called Pooh Corner, aka the Wheaton College Children's Literature Oral Interpretation Society. We met every Tuesday might at 9:58 to read children's books out loud, doing the voices & everything. (My brother made an excellent Gurgi, from Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. "Crunchings and munchings!") Ah, those were the days... And Hannah and I cross-stitched our way through D & D sessions, and she read Pilgrim's Progress (for our Modern Mythology class) to me out loud while I sewed a sword belt. Yeah. We were geeks, and proud of it.

I'd been looking forward to seeing them for awhile (though in typical Heather fashion I hadn't let them know we'd be coming through as early as I started looking forward to it!); somehow I kept remembering little things our friend-group was into, like the Dr. Demento CDs (funny songs; kind of wacked-out funny songs) and little humorous sketches my brother used to play us from MP3 files (like the side-splitting "Internet Help-desk" sketch.) Hannah says I was feeling nostalgic for my inner geek.

And it was a lovely visit; my inner geek was satisfied to the full. I turned off my inner novelist (who'd worked very hard on chapters 7 and 8 in D.C.), since there was less computer availability, and had some blessed free time reading the latest book by Lois McMaster Bujold, a favorite author of Hannah's and mine. (She used to write science fiction and has lately gotten into fantasy... imagine that!) I hadn't been expecting it to be out yet, let alone available to me (Bujold's popular, and I wasn't expecting to find the book in library after library); I finished it in two days. After Dan and Hannah's toddler, Titus, went to bed, we watched a couple episodes of Firefly (a truly good sci-fi show) and the next day during his afternoon nap we watched Unbreakable--about what superheroes would be like if they existed in the real world, fascinating.

And Paul got to listen to my favorite Dr. Demento CD...