Ahhh. I kind of feel as if you're reading my brain. Well, those DW feelings about S1 were me two years ago, but I do still sometimes feel nostalgic (and how weird/geeky is that, nostalgia for a fictional time) for that, because Ten is sometimes more brilliant but also more difficult, and Jack is certainly more tortured, and...yeah, sorry. I need to watch S1 again and relive happy times, clearly.
But what I really meant was about downplaying geekiness - I'm just starting college, and especially after taking a year off and being with friends of mine who at the very least accepted that part of me, it's daunting to try to make new friends with whom I'm not sure I can share that. I didn't realize how lucky I was before to have RL friends who understood fandom, were in similar fandoms, and would be willing to indulge me whenever I needed to obsess about some random thing, even if they had no idea what I was talking about. And now I just wish I could find someone who wouldn't shun me if I started being fannish, because so far I don't know people well enough to be like that around them without worrying about it.
Sorry, that was terribly rambly and incoherent. Incidentally, you're in DC, right? I'm not very quick on the uptake - but I just moved here as well (Georgetown), so though I don't know if you'd ever want to hang out with a lowly undergrad, well, hi!
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Date: 2008-09-01 05:28 am (UTC)But what I really meant was about downplaying geekiness - I'm just starting college, and especially after taking a year off and being with friends of mine who at the very least accepted that part of me, it's daunting to try to make new friends with whom I'm not sure I can share that. I didn't realize how lucky I was before to have RL friends who understood fandom, were in similar fandoms, and would be willing to indulge me whenever I needed to obsess about some random thing, even if they had no idea what I was talking about. And now I just wish I could find someone who wouldn't shun me if I started being fannish, because so far I don't know people well enough to be like that around them without worrying about it.
Sorry, that was terribly rambly and incoherent. Incidentally, you're in DC, right? I'm not very quick on the uptake - but I just moved here as well (Georgetown), so though I don't know if you'd ever want to hang out with a lowly undergrad, well, hi!