A Nerdy Birdie Confession: Life As A Poor Nerd

11:08:00 AM Ariel Bloomfield 2 Comments

     Sorry I haven't posted anything that is not a weekly post in a while. I have been busy with school which has basically kept off on writing on anything I actually want to say.

 Truth be told, being a poor nerd kind of sucks.
       
     Don't get me wrong I love posting about my nerdy life, but when I see post like geek space where people like to show off their geeky areas with all these amazing  figures and comic books  and games. I have nothing that compares to that. Seriously.
   While everybody around me talking about comic books, I am one of those girls who sits quietly because I have no idea what they are talking about half the time because I do not have any of the issues of the latest comic or game. game consoles leave me confused because my family could never afford one. Except when I started playing Call of Duty: Ghosts recently like the rest of my family.
     I do not own any Funko figures, though I want to get some but I can't because I can't afford it. 
     The one thing that irritates me is when I introduce friends of mine that have never seen Doctor Who and they watch it. They end up buying merchandise, and I'm left to sulk.

      I have been to one convention in my life time, it was only a day long but a great day at that. Seeing everybody else go to conventions makes me feel like more of a noob, no matter how hard I try not to be.
    I would love to cosplay, I would love to wear a period costume when I volunteer. I even create my own costumes that have yet come off the page.

    It's not about the nerdy stuff, but it is about where I am in life that makes me feel like this. I can't afford french textbook this semester because it's nearly $200. I don't have financial aid where I get a check to pay for these books, and my own parents won't help pay for it. I have tried every possibility get financial aid only to find myself waiting until my birthday 23rd in October because of the rules that they had. 

     As long as I can remember I have lived a geeky life but I have never been able to show it around others.

    What I have been doing to catch up on being a poor nerd:

• Check out comic volumes from the library. (particularly Buffy)
• Make lists of shirts I would like to get. 
• Work on Last Girl of Gallifrey (coming in late November!)
• Setting up shop, (need to work on products)
• trying to get out more (this I really want to do.)

     One of my dreams is to go my city's first Comic Convention in my birthday month.  I would love to go to that, as start for conventions. I'm crossing my fingers on hoping I can save enough. But chances are I won't.