Are Nerd Girls the Future?   Apr 2, 2012 at 2:00pm | Leave a
comment  Marissa Mayer is probably the perfect woman. Which is
bad news for me, because we're nothing alike.  She's tall,
blonde and perky, with a bubbling laugh and impeccably sharp
outfits. But more to the point: She's really nerdy. And because
she has always been really nerdy, she is now a billionaire, and
she can buy lots and lots of sharp outfits. That's what happens
when you're like the eighth person hired by the founders of
Google.  Being tall and blond and striking aren't really enough,
anymore, in the world I live in. You have to be nerdy, too. It's
the nerdiness that pulls it all together. That gives it a
certain...oomph! A certain bite. A certain respectable,
adorable, infinite potential.  Which I don't have.   I studied a
lot in college and grad school, and I didn't party. Nerdy right?
Wrong. See, I was misinformed, studying the wrong things.
Sociology of religion. Ethnography. I wanted all of my projects
to involve interviewing people a