Geek vs Nerd

So obviously my attempts (more like non-attempts) to do BEDA failed completely. I'll admit now that there were plenty of reasons why BEDA simply did not happen for me though I needn't waste any time explaining them. Moving on shall we then?

Today I'm going to talk about a geek vs nerd. Now first of all, this whole thing started because my older brother has been bugging me to go watch Scott Pilgram ever since it came out in theaters. Now I have honestly just not had the time to go watch the movie. Again, not purposely trying to make excuses or anything. However, between the end of summer, moving, getting back to school, and having company, it's the way it's been. Anyway, my brother has been bugging me and bugging me. He thinks that because I'm a "geek" I should go watch the movie and that I will enjoy it. He's even gone so far as to say that until I watch the movie, that I turn in my "Geek Card". However, there is a problem I have with this. First off, I don't consider myself a "geek" at all. To me a "geek" is someone who is into more like video games and more science fiction stuff. Not saying that a "nerd" doesn't also like that stuff but still it's different when it comes to being a "geek" vs. being a "nerd". I honestly consider myself a "nerd". I AM a "nerd". From my personal opinion (and I'm sure I could find people who agree with me) I'm more "nerdy" than "geeky". Thanks to Hank and John Green of the vlogbrothers, I have embraced this about myself and proudly call myself a nerd (NERDFIGHTERS!!). But I still wonder. What is it exactly that defines if you are a "geek" or a "nerd"? I know that there's overlap there. Like I said though, I'm not a "geek". I can't even think of myself as being "geeky". Nerdy yes, geeky no. Reading online definitions don't help much either. Now basing the two on my brother and his family, I could definately say that my older brother is more "geek" than "nerd". Same with my nephew. However, my sister-in-law could almost be half and half. However I think she's more "nerd" (being mainly because she's really smart).

So this is my question to anyone who reads this (which isn't really anybody but me). How do you define a "geek" vs. a "nerd"? What do you define yourself as and why?

BEDA 1: Blog Every Day August... Day 1 FAIL!

So yeah. I completely forgot about the whole Blogging Every Day in August thing and so now I must catch up somehow. Possibly. Probably. I have no clue. Anyway, let's start off with today and see where this blog goes from there. First off, lets start off by saying that I've been pretty busy this summer and so it doesn't surprise me that I forgot about BEDA until like last week on Tuesday, 3 days after I should have been blogging already. So now I'm at least 8 blogs behind schedule. Although I also had a good reason that I couldn't blog too. I'm not trying to make excuses but this is a pretty legitamate reason. I didn't have my laptop at the time. My laptop was at a computer shop being checked out to make sure nothing was wrong with it or anything. I had to use my parents desktop computer in the meantime and while it would have been ok to use it to write my blogs, I really didn't want to do. I prefer my own more.

I don't really have anything too exciting to blog about tonight. Last week was my last week of volunteering with our Space Center Camps (more on that in a catch-up blog) and I haven't really done much else. I'll be leaving to start Grad School (more later on this too) next week and have already started getting things gathered back up and started packing. That's really about it as far as excitement goes today. Between doing some laundry, running some errands, looking up stuff online, and reading, that's it. I'm sorry that my first official post is so boring. I can only hope that my future posts will be more exciting.