Uber Geek

Okay, I have a confession to make.

I'm a Geek.

I know, I know you're saying to yourself. Of course you're a geek, you're an Organic Chemist. But, my geekdom does not end there oh no.

You see, ever since I was a young lass back in the day, I've always enjoyed playing games of all sorts, boardgames of all types, strategy games, war games, video games and even role-playing games.

Now even though I had pretty bad asthma as a child I wasn't a shut in, I still went outside very often as a child and played at the park, or played street hockey (I'm Canadian Eh!) and other sports. As I got older I graduated from team sports to more opponent bases sports and played things like Tennis and Squash. I really took a shinning to Squash, and I'm not sure why, but I still play that to this day.

Anyway, back to my geekiness. So, my idea of fun back in high school was hanging out with 4-5 guys in someones basement and playing all sorts of games. It was a blast, we had a lot of fun. We destroyed each others civilizations, we blew up their battleships, we delved into dungeons and discovered riches, we did all sorts of things.

This continued on through University, while most University students were drinking, partying and having wild sex with multiple partners. I was hanging out with my few close friends, drinking soda, eating nacho's and playing games. Every Saturday we would get together and play something, and for me it didn't really matter what that something was, but whatever it was I always had fun, because I was hanging out with people I liked.

I even met my wife through geeking activities. She so doesn't look like you're typical geek. But she likes to get her geek on as well, probably not quite as much as I do, but we definately have a commonality there.

To this day, I'm still a geek and I love playing games. I own tons and tons of games, most you've probably never heard of or even cared to play. But ever since I've moved into the states and lost my group of regular friends, it's always been difficult to get my geek on. In California for the last 6 months we did hang out with a bunch of Marines and geek out, which was kind of cool. They were the buffest geeks I've ever seen. :)

So, now that we're here in New Jersey, we've found a few people that we can get our geek on with. Our hunt here has been pretty successful, and we've definately met some very nice people through our geeking activities.

So what does that make me, a grown man who plays boardgames and role-playing games?

An Uber-geek of course.