I’m pretty sure I was always a geek.

I was one of the “smart kids” in high school. I was wholly obsessed with musical theater. Instead of getting drunk on the weekends with the “cool kids,” I hung out at the local coffee shop with my also-geeky friends and played guitar and talked about books. I distinctly remember the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy back in 1997. My pals and I got in line super early for each film, ensuring that we’d be in the front row of the theater for the ultimate hard-core fan experience. It didn’t matter how many times we had seen the movies. We ALWAYS found some nuance to discuss or some wild theory to argue.