Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for April 03, 2024
April 02, 2024
April 04, 2024
Transcript:
"Nerds are in, Twig!" "Only in movies written by nerds that star nerds." "They get good reviews!" "Reviewers are nerds." "And super positive articles!" "Journalists are huge nerds." "Cool girls go to those movies, too." "So they know who to avoid in real life."
I was a nerd in high school—took the STEM classes, studied hard, got good grades. All my friends were nerds. We grew up to become engineer nerds and scientist nerds and computer nerds. We all had good jobs that were enjoyable and satisfying and paid well, and we all continued to hang out together and have good times. The cheerleaders got pregnant and got married (often in that order), the jocks quit playing, got fat, and went from one low-paying, mind-numbing job to another, I don’t know about the rest because I was too busy enjoying my computer nerddom.