Beth Tagged Me...

List 5 reasons you are a geek. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a geek you are! Then pick the 5 biggest geeks you know and have them do the meme. (Not in any particular order.)

1. When I first came to BU I was a linguistics major and a chemistry minor; now I'm a chemistry major and a German minor; at one point I contemplated some type of astrophysics major. I couldn't be happier with what I've chosen. No need to elaborate.

2. When I was younger, the three things I did the most were READ, fly kites, and build model castles. I'm talking serious model castles. I turned toilet paper boxes into large, sectional castles like a mott & bailey, a keep, an English tudor-like castle, a fortified barracks, complete with working drawbridges, cut-away sections for easy access, real hay in the stables, stained-glass windows for the chapels etc.

3. Let's say that the aforementioned things were all I did until I joined band. I was in the Catholic grade-school band, the little kids' orchestra, pep band, marching band, concert band, the Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony, countless Christmas quartets, every IESA, IHSA, and IMEA event imaginable and I even worked for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra for a certain amount of time. At one point I was playing cornet, french horn, clarinet (almost all of them), piano, and saxophone (almost all of them). I was ashamed I could never get good at any double reed instrument. Tchaikowsky's 4th Symphony will always and forever be my favorite piece of music.

4. The longest job I ever held in high school was working for a library. With the summer I worked there after freshman year of college, I had been there 2 years and 6 months in which I devoured almost any book they'd let me get my hands on while I wasn't working. I knew the place forwards and backwards with my eyes closed; consequently, my reading tastes are very eclectic with my latest book being popular science about space and relativity.

5. Both Diana Zaleski and myself co-founded the "LEGOchess Society of Greater Springfield," in which we've played LEGOchess at: the top of a 400ft building, at every Panera in the city, outside of every Borders in the city, in both Washington and Lincoln park, in a Gazebo where a Scottish man played bagpipes for us, at TGI Friday's, at D'arcy's Pint, and numerous other places drawing crowds and even allowing us to be part of a student's photography portfolio at the University of Illinois. Geek, indeed.

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