Geeky? or Nerdy?

("A vampire enacts vengeance on the entire world, claiming her debt two tiny pinpricks at a time." Child of Night)

According to "The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test" at OkCupid.com I am a total nerd (78% nerd, and also somehow also 35% geek and 30% dork). I tend to agree with their assessment. But this post is actually about the 35% of me that's a Geek.

It was Bear's birthday earlier this week. To celebrate, we partook of the scrumtrulescence that is In-N-Out Burger. As we were getting ready to leave, we gave one of our booths (we had two) to a family; the father, upon sitting down, promptly pulled out Magic: The Gathering cards, laid some out on the table and started explaining to his no-older-than-seven-year-old son how the game worked. My initial thought: they are going to get grease all over their cards; I hope they don't have anything good in that deck. My second thought was to be pissed at the man and his wife for justifying the stereotype Mike so clearly described last week when Andy and I told him he was going to play with us.

My final--and prolonged--thought was how much I love playing Magic, and how I wished that I had people to play with. I think it's slightly odd how much I like the game, since I only started playing around Christmas when Andy brought me The Adventurers starter pack and half a dozen booster packs. But I was totally hooked as soon as I saw the artwork. The white and green decks were my favorite because of the angels and elves, respectively. Until I saw that there was a vampire deck. I know vampires are huge in pop culture recently, and it kind of makes me want to not like them myself-but it cannot be helped. I wanted that deck. So when Andy came to visit this time, I got it.

Unfortunately, there weren't enough vampires to make a deck exclusively of vampires, so I made a blue, black and white deck with the vampires included. Unfortunately, the deck turned to be way too big to be even remotely functional. But, then, we talked Mike into playing with us; which gave us a convenient excuse to go to the game store, since Mike had to have a deck of his own. And it made it easy to buy some cards for us, too. Because I'm fat, and also have a mini addiction to Magic cards, I bought a Fat Pack (containing 120 cards plus 40 full art land cards). Best. Decision. Ever. (Ok, not ever. But in recent history, for sure.) I got a case which I badly needed, traded for a Zendikar and M10 pack, and some epic cards. The most stellar of which was Vampire Nocturnus, which was exactly the kind of card I needed to make a full vampire deck. Stoked.

Thanks to Mike's continual complaints of tiredness and his general disinterest in playing, instead of getting to make a vampire deck with all my awesome new cards like I wanted to, Andy and I played with the decks we had already made. And that was the last time I played Magic. And the last time I'll get to play until I hang out with Andy again, because, even after playing a couple of games, Mike maintained his disinterest. How it's possible that the biggest geek (and dork) I know (Mike) is not interested in playing the funnest game ever with me? Maybe I was wrong, and the game is actually too nerdy since it requires brain power to play and is therefore out of Mike's realm? In which case maybe I really need to find nerds, and not geeks in order to be able to play.