{"id":24,"date":"2011-02-04T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homiegfunk.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-11-28T23:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T07:52:24","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.readlikeanerd.com\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Me\"Once upon a time..<\/strong><\/p>

When I was in the 2nd grade, my teacher held a contest to encourage her students to read.\u00a0 Whenever one of us completed a book, she would put a marble into the mason jar that was on our desks.\u00a0 At the end of the year, the marbles would be tallied and the winner with the most would get a pizza party for their desk group on the last day of school.<\/p>

There was a girl in my class who was always boasting about her reading accomplishments.\u00a0 She would proudly count her marbles out loud and comment on our meager collections, predicting her future victory.\u00a0 I didn’t like her because she had always picked on me for being awkward and dorky, so I decided that I was going to win just to spite her.<\/p>

Over the next few months, I went to the library nearly every weekend and checked out the maximum books they’d let me have – ten.\u00a0 I read everything I could get my hands on, including the entire series of both Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys.\u00a0 I diligently filled out the required ditto worksheet and got my mother to sign them, compiling them in a carefully guarded, secret stack.\u00a0 I let the girl continue to brag about her jar having the largest volume of marbles; I let her think she was going to win.\u00a0 Then, on the last week of school when the deadline hit for reading credit, I turned in my pile of book reports and collected my enormous bounty of marbles.<\/p>

I beat her by almost 200 books.\u00a0 She was so upset that she cried.<\/p>

The moral of the story is: if you pick on the nerd for being a nerd, she is going to outnerd you.\u00a0 (Actually, the moral of the story is probably that I’m a terrible person for relishing the time I made a seven year old girl cry, but after that…)<\/p>

I feel that story is a very good representation of who I am today: nerdy, hungry, and pathologically spiteful.\u00a0 And — more relevant to the site I suppose — that I\u00a0 am an enthusiastic reader with an unquenchable thirst for non-fiction.\u00a0 In addition to my small personal library, I also have a Kindle<\/a> that I carry around everywhere<\/em> so I always have reading at my fingertips.<\/p>

…Plus I’ve been conditioned to believe that nerdery leads to delicious pizza, so now I’m like Pavlov’s dog for books.<\/p>

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