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foresthouse tagged me as one of the 5 biggest dorks she knows for the dork meme! I'm flattered...I think.

The meme: List 5 reasons why you are a dork/geek. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme.

Oh, geez, where to start.

1. At the age of 11, I became the youngest member of the New England Tolkien Society. I took the name Bergil, that being the only human child mentioned by name in the LOTR, and immediately began bombarding the poor editor of the NETS newsletter with my fiction. God-AWFUL fiction. I finally wore him down enough that my story about, coincidentally enough, a 12-year-old Gondorian stumbling upon orcs and bravely killing them all got published. It was the first story to ever get...well, 'hate mail' is the wrong term, more like 'OMGWTF? mail'. Copies might still exist somewhere. I recommend burning them.

2. The first two cassettes I ever bought were Mr. Roboto by Styx, and Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D. I still have every lyric of each of these albums memorized.

3. At one point in my life, I have seriously considered getting a tattoo of a Fianna glyph. (Fianna are a tribe of werewolves from a roleplaying game, for folks not in the know. My username is taken from the Fianna character I played, so extra points there. And despite the fact that this character came back to life as an earring at one point, had several OMG forbidd3n! romances, and was about as authentically Irish as a bottle of teriyaki sauce, he was the least twinky of any character I'd played up to that point. Just ask me about Ice, my 17th/8th/23rd level fighter/thief/bard. Better yet, don't.)

4. Let's just take a look at my closet. From left to right there is: a boffer sword from NERO, a tiger suit, two of the pairs of tights I wear when performing at ren faires (I have four, total), a clown suit, Chicken-Dance Elmo, some Electroluminescent wire, and a photo of a cute bunny sitting on his hind legs with his eyes squinted shut.
4a. I got the photo as a thank you after helping a vendor load her stuff into the hotel for a sci-fi con.
4b. I cannot actually GET to any of the things in my closet because of all the comic books in the way.
4c. Sometimes Chicken-Dance Elmo goes off for no apparent reason and starts singing and dancing in the dark. SPOOKY.

5. I am physically unable to play a game of tag with Toby (my chihuahua) in the park without flapping my arms about and yelling "Yee yee yee yee yee!"

Another reason I'm a dork is that I thought about mentioning my various anime and SF addictions and decided they weren't dorky enough.

And now, who to tag, who to tag....hmm. malterre, ldyfyrefly, alyndria, huzzahuzzah, khep, you're up!


EDIT: Argh, I keep thinking of new things! I started trying to style my hair at the age of 4 to look just like Superman! I own a ukelele! I've named thugs from City of Heroes after annoying LJ trolls!