ANOTHER NERD CONVENTION? Did it go well this time?

Yes another one! And do they ever go well? That would be an absolute ye… NO! What do you think, that being with a bunch of nerds is a happy time? Never, because each and every time something weird happens and something bad that then makes me sad happens!  It just so happens that today, was by far on of the worst ones of all time, and that’s saying something.

Today our school’s nerd crew(s) all made their willy nilly way down to (a top secret location), and “competed”, doesn’t quite fit because it’s not a sport (but I’ll go with it anyway), in a “battle of knowledge” (seems fitting enough). We’d all (everyone except my anatomy partner) studied really hard, made our notes, gone to practice, listened and done our research. Most of the events went easily for (said school), and we all felt pretty confident about our scores, and so after our events most of us just chilled out in our homeroom. My events were both the first two hours, so I had a lot of time on my hands, thus leading to me chilling. I just sat there listening to music, searching Pinetrest, studying my anatomy, and laughing at the nerds outside playing, and failing miserably, at ultimate frisbee. It was all going fine and dandy, and I was actually expecting this year to be kind of normal, but then some creep had to go and ruin it for me!

One of the girls on our team is obsessed with moose, and so she brought a giant 5’5 stuffed moose, as a team mascot; not really fitting, but hey, she’s obsessed.  At the “battle of knowledge/completion”, there was of course other people there, and one of them, the creeper he’ll be “Stanley” for now, decided that he was infatuated with the gigantic moose. Stanley left his team’s homeroom, and came to ours to see the moose, but he did a lot more than just “see” the moose. This Stanley kid started kissing the moose, hugging the moose, and doing a ton of other creepy stuff to it. I ended up having to leave my bystander position, and having to take action, thus also leaving my hipster state, as the cool nerd. I had to use my grown-up voice, the one that earned me the title of “mother”, and tell him to leave the room and not come back, he being greatly intimidated, didn’t leave. That’s when I got really mad, I don’t like it when people ignore me, so I got up and pushed Stanley off the moose, grabbed his arm(with great force), and pushed him out of the room. He made me so mad, because I don’t like losing my cool and having to be mean, but the owner of the moose just looked so sad, I had to do something. Still we laughed it off a bit, and then just waited for a little more until the awards ceremony.

I was feeling really good about the whole day, and at first I thought I rocked it. When we were called up to get our awards, the announcer said that I’d gotten 1^st in both my events, so I was beaming; I’d never done so well before. This was unfortunately short lived, because afterwards our “coach”, gathered us around and told us there’d been a mix up; apparently I didn’t get 1^st place on both, but instead 2^nd and our other team had gotten 1^st. Come on I knew there was something wrong when I placed before Moogle Kid, and I am okay with that, but what came next is what really set me off.  Said coach’s son, the one in partnership with Moogle Kid, looked over at me and said “Eat that, (insert my name here)!”, and to my partner he said “(her name here), give it to me!” he was talking about the medal around her neck. And.The. Coach. Didn’t. Even. Say. Anything. And it was all said right in front of him. Yet our “coach” is always talking about team unity, team unity my right eye (that eye means a lot to me, because it’s the one with the best eye sight)! If he even cared about team unity then he’d probably enforce it on his kids, but no his kids are just jerks. The other one said something similar to one of my other friends, Pretty Pony, it went along the lines of “In your face!” yup they’re major jerks if they can set me off.

I’m used to taking people’s crap, but when people are cocky, rude, arrogant, and hypocrites, I just can’t take it. I was just so mad, but I’m good at not getting mad at people in public, thus not making a scene, so I held it in. I killed em’ with kindness, I said all the right things like “Good job”, “congratulations to you too”, and what not, but in my head I’d already killed them a hundred times over. The way I see it they’re already suffering enough with their personality, and attitude. So I just made my way through the good byes and made my way to my parents car, and then I broke out, not with anger, but with tears. I just felt so bad about myself, until my dad told me something.

“(insert my name here), they just couldn’t stand the thought that you are better than them It’s not a might, but you are better, and he knows it too, in life there are just people that will want to tear you down, but you did well, by what you did, you held together, and didn’t give them the satisfaction of letting their words get to you. Because actions speak louder than words, and no matter what I’m always going to be proud of you.”

Drop of Water.