The reasons I am starting this blog are my own and the thoughts that I put here are my own, but I am inviting you, the anonymous user, to share them. If you want to know who I am read the about me section but to give you a brief synopsis I am a girl, I live in the UK and I am a nerd. I like computers, computer games on a variety of platforms, books, TV, maths, science, history, LARPing, kinky sex, make up and a lot more.
I chose the name of this blog without really thinking to in depth about it. It felt right. I did consider for a while whether my posts should begin with the ‘Dear diary’ that was so common in my youth before blogs took off and people still wrote their private and personal thoughts in a book hidden away from the eyes of everyone, instead of nowadays where people want blogs to be read.
There are several sites telling you how to increase your audience etc. Diaries are no longer hidden in the backs of drawers or under floorboards. What does that mean for society as a whole? Is there a underlying urge to be accepted, wanted, approved? Or is it something as simple as being a celebrity in your own little corner of the internet?
The internet changed the way we all think. There are social bloggers whose blogs become a community of like minded thinkers leading to conversation, like minded individuals and from there.. happiness.
There are those who use it as a creative outlet. I think a lot of people use it as a tool for finding the self. I don’t think it has ever been mentioned in any self help book but blogging can be a journey, starting at one point and ending in a deeper realisation of the self through the distance and mapping of the human psyche and our own inner thoughts given free rein on a page, in a window.
Why am I blogging? In answer to my own question… All of the above reasons maybe but mostly the last. The discovery of the self. Myself.
Why Nerdgirl?
The dictionary definition of the word nerd from the Oxford English Dictionary online is:
nerd
Pronunciation: /nəːd/
(also nurd)
noun
informal
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a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: I was a serious nerd until I discovered girls and cars
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a single-minded expert in a particular technical field: a computer nerd
but I think the urban dictionary provides a more apt version, and certainly a more relevant definition :
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An ‘individual’, i.e. a person who does not conform to society’s beliefs that all people should follow trends and do what their peers do. Often highly intelligent but socially rejected because of their obesssion with a given subject, usually computers.
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Girl is probably easier to explain.. I am a girl, I am of the female gender, I have a womb, a vagina ( I hate that word), I like baking, and make up, jewelery and many other girly pastimes. Put the 2 together and that is me. Nerdgirl.
And this is my diary.
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