Geek? What Geek?

*Glup* I really am a geek. I'm definitely not a party animal -- even just a thought of attending makes me sick. :-(

Sometimes, I'm thinking what's the characteristic of a geek. I have tried to type it in my dictionary, and here is the result:
1. An unfashionable or socially inept person.
2. A person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest.
3. A carnival performer who does wild or disgusting acts.

Well, I suppose (or I hope) I don't fit with the third definition, but I definitely am the first and the second. I hate it when I have to buy fashionable clothes. I always wear the same clothes for what feels like ages -- more, if possible. I won't buy anything except my family protests. I don't know why, but I just don't like it.

But, ladies and gentlemen, if a geek is always unfashionable, it clearly doesn't fit with the second definition: "A person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest". So, the second definition says that people who love shopping (notice that I sayid "people", not "women") are also shopping geeks. They're fashionable, aren't they? But are they called geeks? Nope.

So what is geek? Er, actually, there's nothing called a geek. That's just a word, you know, made of alphabets G, double-E and K. Words are just codes, as someone said (Barthes, I suppose, or Fiske. I forget), and these codes have no meaning except if a society gives them a meaning. It's a result of relationship between codes and conventions in a society, where a code consists of words connotes a specific meaning. And this meaning, sadly, is defined as "an unfashionable or socially inept person".

In conclusion... do you need any other proof I'm a geek? Heck, what kind of person will talk philosophy in his just-for-fun blog, except if he's a geek? I even started this post without any idea it will end up this way. Well, here goes my holiday...

Rats, I really hate going to parties... >:-(