A Scary Realisation

[baratron]

Excluding a one-night stand (with a wonderful person who just lived too far away for a relationship :( ), everyone I've ever been involved with has been a sysadmin or programmer or electronic engineer. (Those ORs are not exclusive). What does this say about me?

Answers on a postcard please, and interested geeks of non-computing disciplines please line up at the right ;)

Comments

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

It says, of course, that you're a thoughtful, intelligent and discriminating woman who appreciates a man who can stimulate you in many ways, and doesn't care if you eat pizza at 5 AM or forget to shave your legs. Duh :>.
At least I hope that's what it means, since I've been similarly afflicted^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wblessed.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Y'see, it doesn't surprise me that they're all geeks, because I don't date outside my ...species ;) (That sounds rude, but I just don't have anything in common with non-geeks: I need people to be engineers or scientists or games players or science fiction fans so I have something to talk about). The thing that surprises me is that they've all been geeks of computers specifically. Even my girlfriends have been computer geeks!

I use computers extensively - I wouldn't know what to do with myself without the internet - but I'm not a computer geek. I don't ever want to be a sysadmin or programmer - my brain doesn't really work the right way for that sort of thing to be fun. So it surprises me to find I haven't dated any pure science people. The only thing I can think of is that the line at the end of the geek test I did the other day (http://baratron.livejournal.com/172326.html) is applying: I snipped it from my post, but it said something about "Dating tip. Don't try to date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll just try to out-geek each other." Am I doing this unconsiously? 'Cos I'm certainly not doing it on purpose!

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

It means programmers, sysadmins, and electronic engineers are clearly very sexy :)

definitely!

[vampwillow]

Have to agree with that...

vampwillow: programmer, sysadmin, radio/sound/electronics engineer, etc...

[gerwinium.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Not quite the same for me. They were almost all doing exact sciences though.

[chrismoose.livejournal.com]

Ditto - All the men I've been involved with are electrical engineers, computing or physics....
I have had a couple one night stands with more arty women though...

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Clearly you are possessed of excellent taste. :-)

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Sounds familiar (excluding 1 biology student and 1 cunning linguist...)
No comment, only that there's a lot of sysadmin/prog/eng people out there.

My 96-year-old ungodmother has come to the conclusion that nowadays all women are biologists and all men work 'in computers', as it fits 100% of her godchildren and similar (5 of us).

[lindsical.livejournal.com]

**takes off her glasses**

I'm NOT a geek!
LOL