I attended my first real LAN party not long ago on a Saturday night. What is LAN, you ask? LAN stands for "Local Area Network" : basically, we set up our computers in the same room and plug into the internet and play computer games together. Seven straight hours of StarCraft II, from 6 pm to 1 in the morning...it was fantastic. On top of the fact that I was nearly the only female present. Yes, guys are so much more fun to hang out with than girls. Definitely. Except for the yo-mama jokes. And the swearing. But otherwise it was great.
I am very open with my nerdiness, much to my mother's chagrin. She DOES NOT approve of my interests. I tried, for a long time, to reconcil the two. I won't play if she was present. I hid it from her, tried to avoid her disapproval. After a while, I realized that I was never going to stop playing video games, and she was never going to accept it. I won't apologize for who I am. She's taken it very well, though. She won't buy me games, but she did buy me an Optimus Prime Transformers blanket that I am currently wrapped up in. :)
I love my mother to pieces. She doesn't like that I'm into something she considers inappropiate for girls, but she loves me anyway. We've reached an understanding, I think. She rolls her eyes, I ignore her. And do little things around the house to make up for it. Like the dishes.
Stay the way you are!
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