I have a crush on Getchen Grundler. Something about girls with overlarge, oblong heads really gets my blood pumping.

Actually, I think it's her overwhelming nerdiness. Her enormous glasses and front teeth... I love nerd-girls. I especially love nerd-girls that are unsure of themselves. There's just something about power before it's realized that amazes me. Presence, I guess you'd call it. That invisible knowledge of a mighty soul - the type of person that stands out to those that are aware. Not everyone has it.

I'm not talking about become rich or famous - or even smart, per se. I'm talking about having the raw material, the guts and the grist, to reform yourself. You can tell a person who will never stop becoming greater from a long way off if you're looking. I don't care whether someone's awesome at Football. I don't care whether someone can do cartwheels for a mile. Some of those people have it, yes. Most don't.

Nerd-girls have it in a higher concentration than most any other group. I've found that just about any nerd-girl you'll encounter has the proclivity toward being a Presence. Why? I think our society weeds them out. Nerd-girls that persist in being nerd-girls have to resist the incredible societal pressure toward priss and pout. It takes a girl that's strong in herself. More importantly, it takes a girl that's strong in who she can become. So many girls are trained out of their potential since... a long time ago.

That isn't to say, of course, that men aren't trained out of it as well. Too many are content to reach a certain point in their lives and then cease bettering themselves - or even believing that they still can become better. Yes, they might keep accruing more and more stuff, but stuff can't counteract endless nights of watching crap-TV with a beer in your fist.

Oh well. I'm whining.

Believe in yourselves people. You have so much more to offer than you can even guess at. Never stop learning!