Geek plus

[resonant]

This morning there was a guy in my coffee shop that I just could not take my eyes off of.

On the one hand, he had heavy glasses. He was dressed in baggy khaki pants, a baggy tweed jacket, and an orange T-shirt with something written on it. He was kind of large in the butt. He had an awkward forward-leaning walk. He was carrying a pile of about five library books. And he went out and came back in twice, as though he kept forgetting things.

On the other hand, he had that high-maintenance blond surfer haircut -- the one that makes you look as though you washed your hair, went out immediately without drying it, and spent twelve hours on the beach. And he had on one of those short leather necklaces with the shells, and a knotted hemp bracelet.

God, to my taste he was breathtaking.

See, I like pure geek; pure geek is attractive to me. Pure pretteh -- eh, I can take it or leave it. But geek mixed with pretteh? Irresistible.

There's a woman named Dixie in my writer's group who's a type you've seen a thousand times before -- a nurse, short and round, with close-cropped gray hair and one of those unbreakable watches, very matter-of-fact and plainspoken and practical. And then one day she showed up wearing flip-flops and a toe ring. I -- man.

Lucky for me, I married one of those. The spouse is a geek, but he's an Italian geek, which means that he's rumpled and bespectacled, but he has a fairly audacious fashion sense. So there he is, with his tie poking out the bottom of his jacket and highlighter marks on both hands, but he's wearing a soft shirt the color of raspberry sherbet and a tie with the text of the Rosetta Stone printed on it.

And, you know, unlike Dixie and the guy in the coffee shop, him I can kiss any time I want to.

Comments

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Hee! I can relate: my husband is a computer geek. One of the short, soft-skinned, big eyed puppyish geeks. When I met him he was 25 and looked around 14.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I don't suppose you could teleport the pretty geek boy to my local coffee shop?

[zoerayne]

OMG, so totally with you on that.

shadowowl = geeky fanboy. His office is filled with X-Men action figures and his clothing sense in general is pretty abysmal--he wears whatever is work-acceptable and (reasonably) unwrinkled--but he's got chocolate-brown eyes and long, black eyelashes and a sexy grin that just makes me melt, and his favorite tie features Jack Skellington. (Plus, red belt in Tae Kwon Do, which is yet another kind of sexeh.)

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

Completely there with you on this. I've been married to total geek boy for more than 20 years. I still look at him and think how cute he is. :-)

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on that.

jonbaker - interesting color (he likes greens and lavenders and greys and soft blues) shirts over soft khakis, and when he wears ties, they have Winnie-the-Pooh staring at stars or a library or the space shuttle or a starscape on them, but he has the glasses and the ponytail and a big bushy beard he trims when I remind him and he makes stupid puns and he lives for hugs and when he smiles...oh, when he smiles.

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

Mine defaults to brightly-colored polo shirts with blue jeans, glasses (of course), and running his hands through a shock of prematurely silver (I mean, seriously, he's 30) hair. When he cleans up, he cleans up very nice -- but when he's scruffy after a night spent hunched over the computer, I want to do things to him rarely envisioned on Usenet.

(We're getting married in three-plus weeks. Yee-ha!)

[neery.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you how much I love your writing style?
"So there he is, with his tie poking out the bottom of his jacket and highlighter marks on both hands, but he's wearing a soft shirt the color of raspberry sherbet and a tie with the text of the Rosetta Stone printed on it.

And, you know, unlike Dixie and the guy in the coffee shop, him I can kiss any time I want to.
"

I kind of feel about sentences like this like you feel about pretty geeks - I just have to keep looking back and rereading and enjoying the pure beauty. Mmm.
Not that I fangirl you, or anything. Of course not.

Um. To get back on topic - Mmm, geeks. Unfortunately, my boyfriend is about as un-geeky as they come, but as that's a relatively minor flaw when compared to all the ways he's just perfect for me, I can live without it. (Of course I can still discretely drool over Daniel Jackson and Blair Sandburg and that amazing math geek in my chemistry class.)

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I...this isn't really the same thing, but once in college I saw a girl--long blonde hair, tan, bare legs, lime green cotton sundress--swoop down a hill with her sockless, sneakered feet balanced easily on a skateboard. I was instantly smitten.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I've always adored geeks. My husband is a little taller than yours, but he still looks young, and when I met him he looked like those Nordic versions of Jesus Christ: you know, the high cheekbones, thick wavy blond hair, huge blue eyes. His eyelashes are so long they brush against his glasses, and that annoys him, so . . . he trims them. Yes, with a scissors.

GAH.

And there's nothing better in life than the In-Home Computer God. :)

[the-moonmoth.livejournal.com]

I used to think my boyfriend was geeky, but then I got into fandom and have since out-geeked him *g*

However, he's now got a job and has developed a liking for nice clothes (gender reversal max. omg), so he looks quite pretty these days, but I know he's still a big ole geek underneath, and I actually like that a lot. I think of it as the Sheppard effect...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Pure pretteh -- eh, I can take it or leave it. But geek mixed with pretteh? Irresistible.

*explodes with teh hot*

[overnighter.livejournal.com]

If you're not using him, could you send him my way? :)

I love the way you've woven this story -- a little interaction that we all have at one point or another during the day -- into something profound and a little sexy.

I envy your way with words, and your hot/geeky husband.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Loki and I are both geeks. I should take pictures. It's be like french postcards for you!

B

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

LOL! I love everyone's geek descriptions :D

My geek is a very precise geek - and he's got a zillion precise-geek habits that are *so cute.* Every crease on his pants must line up. Outfits must be monochrome. And when he gets going on some computer intricacy and can't stop..... *dies*

geeks. they're the best.

[undunoops.livejournal.com]

Ode to the Geek

Hyper is very tall
and very hairy
He is kind to children
but not a fairy
He likes Macs
and backpacks
and drinks too much dairy

... he's my erstwhile geek, and still a great friend.

I'd say...

[nyghtshayde.livejournal.com]

...that underdogs fall under a classification of "geeks" and that's one of my downfalls. The cute underdog that is usually overlooked for Gorgeous Football Guy or Cute Cheerleader. He's got a vulnerability that he hides so as not to get hurt again and again, and yet he always does get hurt. Yeah, that's what I'm a sucker for...and I married one. *grins* Good luck with your geeks! It never hurts to look. :)

Geek! The Other White Meat

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

This is a T Shirt I want to get my husband. He's an IT geek. Mixed with a large dose of heavy metal rock reject. Long pony tail, great with a guitar, even better with a recalcitrant Unix box. He bought me my own domain for a valentine's day present.

Pretty geek sounds just yummy!

Lucky you...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not getting a lot of use out of him, so why not.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know what you mean. It's the one trait that throws all the other traits into relief, somehow.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[beaming at you]

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

ellen_fremedon requested him first, but maybe he'd be willing to divide his hours between you.

And thanks!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes. See, if visual porn were made for me, there would be highlighter marks on the hands. Like that famous painting where the nude's feet are dirty.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I love that description!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yay for the underdog, definitely.

And when I fall for a musician, he's almost always a bass player.

I've been a Duckie Dale chick...

[nyghtshayde.livejournal.com]

...since reading the book back in junior high school. Movie-wise, I generally love the underdog, the goofy guy, the sidekick.

I think I've usually liked the drummers in most bands. I'm not sure though since I don't pay much attention aside from the music. Though I also like singers.

[100wordspermin.livejournal.com]

Yours sounds a lot like mine!

And I thought mine was the only one with the crazy polo shirts and the salt-and-pepper hair by age 25.

:)

[judas-river.livejournal.com]

Like that famous painting where the nude's feet are dirty.

Mmmmmmm... Now you've piqued my interest. Which painting is it?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I couldn't even begin to remember -- sorry! I don't even remember what era it was, except that I'm fairly certain it was before the 1920s. Sort of subdued colors, and possibly painted from the back looking flirtatiously over her shoulder? Sorry.