{"id":863,"date":"2004-05-02T02:38:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/freak-or-geek\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:08:17","slug":"freak-or-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/freak-or-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Freak or Geek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Friday, I got the special box set of Freaks and Geeks, possibly one of the best shows ever on TV.  I know every girl who loved the show totally thought the same way, but I was totally a Lindsay in high school (with, possibly, a little bit of Millie thrown in).  I was an overachiever that really, really, wanted to be a slacker.  I couldn&#8217;t really pull it off though &#8211; I was too obsessive-compulsive, so I just settled for hanging out with them (and dating one or two).<\/p>\n<p>But I was totally a geek too &#8211; looking back, I realize that being on my school&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enter.net\/%7Enjscil\/\">science league<\/a> team might have actually pushed me over the edge on that one.  I actually participated in a group that travelled from high school to high school voluntarily taking extra tests!  competitively!  (I was Chemistry II, by the way).  Every F&amp;G episode that mentions the mathletes and the academic decathlon actually makes me shudder.  And I can&#8217;t even think about the history competition that I rode a bus to Albany to participate in.  on a weekend.  oh man.  I&#8217;m sometimes amazed that I managed to survive high school with any sort of actual social skills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I got the special box set of Freaks and Geeks, possibly one of the best shows ever on TV. I know every girl who loved the show totally thought the same way, but I was totally a Lindsay in high school (with, possibly, a little bit of Millie thrown in). I was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-dV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}