Ravenclaw and geekish solidarity

[owl]

ataniell93 has been posting about the Hogwarts houses. Now I am a Ravenclaw with a touch of Gryffindor (which makes me purplish-blue, a shade which causes me some synaesthesic distress as I see myself as green), and I was going, 'Check, check, spot on!' to Ravenclaw traits such as messiness, borrowing others' belongings non-maliciously and living in one's one universe inside one's head.

Then someone pointed out that Ravenclaws would enjoy jokes similar to, say, ones carried out at MIT. While I was laughing at these, I had a sudden realisation. If I don't go back into academia and stay there for the next 40 years, I had better get a job with a high concentration of fellow-geeks.
I miss doyle_sb4 and my housemates, living in Belfast and learning new stuff,a social life, the university library (it's not even the physics. It's being able to go and look for information on fleet actions of the Napoleonic wars/mineralogy of asteroids/English witch trials and have a good chance of finding it. Guess the fandoms!).
But even more I miss being around flesh-and-blood geeks. People who get my jokes, who understand obsessiveness and that piles of paper on the floor are a perfectly good filing system, random interjections of,'But why is it like this...?' and the joy of usless knowledge. Also, most geeks are fannish or at least understand the fan mindset. I mightn't admit to my housemates that I write fanfiction, but at least I could have a good discussion of Harry Potter shipping or manifestations of the Hero's Journey.

It's the mindset I miss, not any particular aspect of it. Knowing other people are like me and I'm not as freaky as I might seem.

ETA: Gakked from connielane's userinfo:



What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.


Seemed appropriate.

Comments

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a Ravenclaw... I know exactly what you mean.

[owl]

It's so useful to have these handy ready-made definitions, isn't it?

[yubsie]

Blast, someone ELSE less nerdy than me. :p

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I am so. very. Ravenclaw. Hee. I knew that, but it's even more amusing to have it all laid out and explained so well and so accurately.

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. *smiles*

[owl]

Oh, me too. So Ravenclaw, baby. How's yours doing, btw (and nice icon, while I'm on that topic)?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, all right -- making me pretty ill in the afternoons and evenings these days, but I hope that will pass in another few weeks. Thanks for asking.