So, yah dahling, been traveling internationally yah?

I just came back from Portugal the other day... on business. I really didn't want to go and I had been annoying everyone with "oh God dahling, one doesn't rally want to go away to the continent when one has sooo much work to do" but oh MAN! I had such a brilliant time! We worked our socks off and we partied like it was going out of fashion and coming back in again and it. was. AWESOME! I really don't know why I even try. I am so not cool enough to pull off the bored with the travelling routine scenario at all... I am a geek, and an excitable one at that.
*Geek alert*
Here's a really cool thing - we were having dinner (for those of you who haven't tried it, Portugese food is awesome!) on the first day with the a whole bunch of people and one of the guys at our table worked for R&D division of our company. I was trying to have a conversation with him about biological technology and quantum chip technology and it was mostly amazing - mostly, because we were both fairly, erm, "inebriated"... and then the next day we looked at the future of the technology that we were going to offer and that completely wired me - despite the fact that I had only had about four and half hours of sleep, I was definitely no wilting moonflower!
*End of geek alert*
I might as well just face facts. I am (urgh) bubbly, excitable and enthusiastic. I am Betty Boo rather than Grace Kelly. I love technology and science and I was THAT person that called and told EVERYONE she knew that last year two students had managed to "transport" the image of a molecule by about 10 yards at a university in Australia. I'm waiting to take my first vacation through a transporter room... yes I know. All this time I tried so hard to be all cool and humanities sophisticated but *sigh* there's no hope.
- The contact lenses will hide the "four eyes" but not remove it
- I try to read glamorous chic magazines but Wired or the New Scientist wins (alongside Runner's World - I try to be a running geek. Like Forest Gump) more often than not. I mean seriously, HOW MUCH MAKE-UP CAN YOU TALK ABOUT FOR CHRISSAKE?!
- I tried to grow my hair into a nice feminine look but dude, do you have any idea how much maintenance mid/long length hair takes? Tchuh. What a waste of my life with all those tools. I have a nice streamlined (read: short. very), low maintenance (5 minutes) barnet that allows me to get dressed in 20 minutes from shower to ready-to-rock
- My career has been software house, teaching and back to software house. No trendy publishing job or PR stuff in there
You see? I am a bona fide, 100%, no-doubt-about-it, geek. And I am going to stand up and be proud.
My name is Moonflower and I am a geek!
Ladies and gentlemen, she has left the building... and forgotten her bloody laptop, again.