I’m just a geek and I know it and I like it

I was always short and everything. I didn’t grow until I got out of high school. I was shy in my early years and I found out if you don’t stand up no one is going to see you. I’ve learned through playing sports to stand out. I was 5’5″ in my senior year. My football friends used to call me munchkin or mushroom because I was always the small one. There are a lot of nicknames being short, but you laugh it off and make jokes. When you’re small and you’re on a sports team they always stick you in the front. They always put you on the front line sitting down. You always want to be in the back with the cool kids are but you’re always stuck in the front. So when you start getting stuck in the front a lot you kind of get used to it, I guess. Now I’m more comfortable in the front. 

I’ve done everything from the Renaissance Faire to Wasteland, Comic-Con stuff. If you do anything like that you know you pretty much stand out so you have to be somewhat hopeful in what you are and it’s become much easier. I don’t think you call me special or anything different, I’m just a geek and I know it and I like it. 

Today I’m dressed in my Scarecrow outfit from Batman. It’s my own little mix on it. I don’t like taking someone else’s character and copying it. I always like to add a little twist to it. I think it opens up a whole different world. It’s kind of a Mad Max meets DC.

I still have my teddy bear to this day. My little Ewok doll. My mom brought it for me when I was in the fifth grade or six grade. I used to stick a little bandanna on his head. When I went to college it had a beer can sitting next to him. I can’t get rid of the darn doll because I love the doll. That thing has been everywhere with me. To this day it still sits up on my desk. It brings back memories, happy moments when you’re a kid. When things were easier, when you weren’t paying bills, you were just busy trying to fit in at school. It was a simpler time for me. I look at the doll and it goes back in time for me.