how nerdy am I?

After I discovered that I am 43% gay, I figured, hey why not? Let’s find out how nerdy I am. I took the test and scored in at 47%. In many ways, I was a little surprised. First of all, the test seems to be geared towards those of the physics/math ilk. I find that rather limiting. While not particularly knowledgeable in physics nor math (despite my 47% score - that was one of the ways of my surprise), I have in-depth knowledge about a bunch of other things. Embarrassingly more than the average bird. I think that makes me a nerd. Ask me a question about linguistics, about sewing or knitting, about graphic design. My husband, also lacking in physics and math skills is what I call a sports nerd. Ask him who had the highest batting average in Major League Baseball, the oldest quarterback to win a championship, which team has the most national championship titles and he will regale you with stat after stat, tale after tale, minutae after minutae…

Now just because we don’t own a graphing calculator between the two of us (I tried to get my parents to buy me one when I was in high school, but could only get away with a scientific calculator from Texas Instruments which we use to this day) and because we can’t rattle off the periodic table of elements, does that mean we don’t qualify as nerds?

I mean, doesn’t that fact that I am even writing a post on this subject qualify me in there somewhere (test score not-withstanding)??