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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2178778" data-attributes="member: 5143">Naa, it works the other way around.  I wear the shirt because that is what I like and who I see myself as.  The shirt is not me, I am the shirt.  If I didn't like that stuff or I cared about what other people thought of me much, I wouldn't wear it.  To me, not wearing it is like pretending that I'm someone else. Besides, right now I have a sweater and dress pants on.I fit the stereotype, as I pointed out, not because I'm trying to be that stereotype, but that it happens to fit who I already am so well.  I find that I have the most in common with geeks because I don't have to go through an explaination process to explain what I'm interested in.  I can say "Hey, don't you think that part is cool in Return of the Jedi where the emperor is using lightning on Luke?" and expect an answer back like "ya, but wasn't it cooler when the death star was destroyed" instead of "Umm, I don't remember that, I haven't seen Star Wars in years."More than willing to admit this.  If there's anything that describes me well, it's lazy.  Heck, if I was less lazy, I might take up swimming as a hobby or go to the gym.  But, well, I AM lazy.  It's been me for as long as I can remember.No, actually, I talked to her just fine.  And I enjoyed it.  I probably will try to talk to her again, but it's unlikely I'll get to do anything with her.  Most of my coworkers have the attitude that work is work and we don't do anything outside of it.  I hinted at doing things with them and I pretty much got the "whoa, I spend as much time NOT thinking about this place as possible, I don't want to be hanging around with coworkers outside of work".  Nor do I really like any of them enough to want to spend more time with them then required.I agree that I do sit around waiting for things to happen to me too much and I should be more proactive.  I'm perfectly aware of that.  However, I have talked to all sorts of people, I go out of my way to listen to stories people tell and what I find more often than not is...they don't really interest me.  A large amount of the real world is just really boring to me.  I deal with it when I have to and no more.  I do like music and can talk about the music industry, current times, some politics, the movie industry, philosophy.  I like talking about these things.  However, I have no interest in sitting around hearing about this time that one of my friends got so drunk they could barely walk and then when they passed out, they woke up at someone's house they had never met before and got out of there before the other person woke up.  To me that just reads "ok, you did something stupid...why do I need to know about it?"  I also have no interest in spending multiple hours each week doing exercises whose only purpose is to make me look better to other people.  As it is now, I barely manage to fit sleeping, work, eating, and some time for myself into each day.  I dress in nice clothes for nice occasions.  I shower as often as I have time for and is required by society.  If I'm going somewhere with people around, I will shower and get dressed up, unless I know it's mostly geeks.Just no real interest in most non-fantasy books.  I don't have much time to read anymore anyways.  I have at least 3 or 4 D&D books that I've been meaning to actually read for the last 6 months or so and haven't gotten around to it yet.But also, that extra hour of Knights of the Old Republic is a lot more fun than the hour of exercise.  Also, depending on what type of exercise I'm doing, I have to go somewhere to have that exercise.  That meanst 30 minutes there, 30 minutes back.   So, I've now wasted one hour of my time travelling in order to spend 1 hour doing something that I don't like doing so OTHER people can like what they see in me.  I hate wasting time and try to optimize the use of it.  If something is fun and makes me happy, it's a good use of time, if it doesn't, it gets scrapped.</blockquote>

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