Nerd Herd Thursday

Remember back when I was waaaayyy more organized and I would have theme days? Like Space Camp Thursday? Well eventually I ran out of embarrassing photos from my tween years as a wannabe astronaut, but the geek doesn’t stop there. So in an attempt to try and make this site more interesting (as if anything could be more interesting, ha!), I’m going to try and keep my new theme going. Thursday is henceforth named Nerd Herd Thursday, and I’ll be telling you stories of dork-ness that only a good friend could appreciate. See, I just called you all my “good friends.” Don’t you feel special?! I think this theme day is going along swimmingly.

I got the idea for Nerd Herd Thursday theme day last week when I was spending some much needed alone time in my room. I flipped through my stolen cable TV channels and eventually settled on a movie of love and loss, family and enemies, giant oozing globs of fat that talk and extremely tall hairballs with legs. Yes, the old classic, Star Wars. In particular, The Return of the Jedi.

As I watched my dear Han Solo almost burn to death because the Ewoks thought he was a bad guy, but then C3P0 convinced them he was a God, well actually Luke made him levitate in a chair with his powers of the Force…..anyway……as I watched that, I realized I was probably the only 25-year-old female on the planet sitting in her bed watching Star Wars at 10:30 on a Tuesday night. I headed out to the living room to see if my husband was doing anything less dorky.

Um. No.

He was watching a two-hour special report on the Large Hadron Collider that was just started up last week in Geneva.

The what?!

Yeah, that’s what I said too. So he sent me the following video to explain it. Note, please turn your speakers up for this one, lest the true nerdiness not absorb into your soul.

Yes, a rap about colliding particles. Thus the conclusion of the first ever Nerd Herd Thursday….you’re welcome.