Urgent Prayer Request

Posted by Jen | Filed under Family

I have recently learned of some very bad news concerning my husband. As it turns out, despite my efforts over the last 3 years to keep him on some level of coolness, Chris has plunged face first into nerdom. One of you nerds out there have managed to seduce him into your little world and I am the one that will suffer.

Tonight I discovered that Chris is involved in some sort of online game whereby he is the master of his own planet or continent or something like that. (I didn’t want too many details for obvious reasons) Anyway, I questioned him on the nature of this game in order to assess the damage. Apparently Chris, or “Caspian X” as he is refered to in this game (I know, this is bad), is in charge of creating his own little world with creatures and a millitary and nerds only know what else. In a conversation with one of his friends, they used words like, fortification, wormhole, nanomolecular path, and nanowire barrier defense when talking about the game. I can only assume that this game is on the same level as Star Trek convetions and action figure collections.

When I first got the news I went into shock. It has now been about 30 min and I am starting to deal with the reality of what is. Chris is a nerd. The diagnosis is uncontested (except by Chris) and the prognosis is not good. This can only get worse. I am writing this knowing full well that there may in fact only be one or two people who sympathize with me (Julie, Mom) and the rest of you are probably captains of your own planets as well.

I just want to close by addressing my nerdy husband. Chris, I love you so very very much. Only love as strong as mine can overcome this canyon that separates the cool from the planet lords. I just want you to know that while I can’t possible understand nanotech weapons, I support you in whatever extra-curricular activities you choose. I sincerely hope your planet is awesome and successful.

resigned,
Jen

Permalink | February 20th, 2006

5 Responses to “Urgent Prayer Request”

  1. Chris Says:
    February 20th, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    see! this is what happens when you tell your wife EVERYTHING!!!

    in my defense, i never said i wasn’t a nerd. i’ve never really claimed to be cool.

    thanks for loving me despite myself.

  2. Willie Says:
    February 21st, 2006 at 10:52 am

    Well jen, you should join in! Be a nerd, it’s fun. Come on, you know you want to.

  3. Wp Says:
    February 23rd, 2006 at 10:30 am

    See, fellas - I think she’s just jealous.

    I’d be a planet lord, myself, if I wasn’t too busy being a comic / superhero nerd and galavanting around as my alter ego, The Imperial

    :: cue dramatic music ::

  4. julie Says:
    February 26th, 2006 at 5:19 pm

    nerdy adj.

    Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerda square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits…. An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerdsDr. Seuss’s small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mailare the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”

    Oh, Chris, the places you will go…

  5. julie Says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 6:04 pm

    For goodness’ sake, write a new blog. I live for this, you know. Throw me a bone…

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