I am a Geek groupie!

What can I say I love geeks, there is just something about them, their sense of humor, their cute innocence, their unparalleled intelligence and in Norway – believe it or not – they are seriously cute too!  I want to also point out that I am always amazed at the amount of hot developers there are at every conference I have attended all over the world!  So not just in Norway, but Norwegians – being Vikings – got it goin’ ON!

I have just spent the weekend skiing with 13 male geeks and 1 female geek, you would think that that could be kinda dangerous, you know everyone gets squiffy and strange things are afoot in the Jacuzzi…

But no, no chance, they discussed geeky things (being a wannabe I could only understand the periphery of what the hell they were talking about), drank inhuman amounts of alcohol, skied like Gods (Geeky Gods) and spent time discussing at what temperature water boils in the mountains in order to figure out how long to boil the eggs (there were SEVEN of them discussing this over an empty pot), I said “Dudes for F**Ks sake at least fill the pot with water and discuss it!! – MULTITASK!!”

It has been a great weekend, I was challenged to Snowboard, and as it is sports year I said yes, it took like 2,5 hours to get down the mountain, but there are no limits to how proud I am, towards the end my body actually figured it out – AND I WAS SNOWBOARDING without falling and actually being able to steer right and left and even stop!! WHOHOOO! Mind you this was an excruciating experience, I fell and fell and fell, hurting my ass, elbows and pride in equal measure and am indescribably sore.  I am sore in places I didn’t know existed and am actually sore in about a foots circumference around my body, I feel like I have a bubble of pain around my whole body – wow, is that my gizzard, I didn’t know I had one but duuude it hurts! And if this is day one, WTF will day two be like.

I am definitely going to go snowboarding again (actually in a couple weeks at our kick-off).

But my point is that these wonderful Geeks took such good care of me, holding my hand, helping me up, cheering me on, showing what I am convinced is genuine pride in my achievements.  I felt so lucky to be with these people, lucky to work with this group of talented, committed, engaged, intelligent and hilarious Geeks.

I wish there was more I could contribute to this group of people, I feel on the periphery, included (absolutely) but not quite being able to add value.

I could not imagine working in any other field; I love this environment and am so impressed with the contribution that tasty, lovely Geeks make to the world.

Now, all I have to do is find out how to contribute, so I can stay forever in the realm of Geekitude :)