Every week Rachel and I attend a nerd gathering in Sydney that we call Mid Week Geek; at some point she ranted lyrical on her wish for an all female geek community and eventually Nerd Girl Army was born.

I'm a pretty hardcore geek, but I'm a goth, so I get to wear sexy boots, drink too much and play the bad grrl and no one notices just how much of a nerd I am until we start talking about software design and Sims legacies. 

By day I work in the IT projects division of a large Australian telecommunications company mostly doing enterprise applications technical management and software implementations. I believe in software quality and formal methodologies with a religious fervour and have worked in pretty much every part of the SDLC from programming to business analysis. These days I spend most of my time screaming at Indian and Singaporean engineers for a living. 

I don't really read Western comics unless they're pushed on me by friends but I'm a pretty tragic otaku and there's  no maid themed harem ecchi that I haven't seen... and have the collectables for. I'm also a giant TV nerd and spend most of my days with anything and everything playing on my home MythTV network. 

I grew up roleplaying but I don't really play much any more unless I'm at conventions. I've long since given up on CCGs and wargames because I refuse to pay for endless collectables just to play a game. I do have a fairly nice "classic" games collection though and I like to buy traditionally made games when I travel.

On my personal blog I write a semi frequent movie review segment called Non Spoilerific Movie Round Up that I will be continuing on the Nerd Girl Army and I follow up my interest in movies with a somewhat sick fascination with Awards Shows. 

I'm here at the direction of General Rachel and because yes, I am fed up of being treated like my thoughts and opinions and existence don't actually matter because I happen to not have a Y chromosome in a nerdy world.

 I roleplay a lot, mostly D&D and World of Darkness. I also sew, bead, do fencing and archery (or at least, I used to before my body started serially hating me), play console and computer games, as well as Magic the Gathering, shoot people with NERF guns, screw around with various wikis and occasionally enjoy comics.

I can't wait for the upcoming release of Diablo 3, and I'm not afraid to admit it, because that's how I roll.

 I may not be as nerdy as some, but I'm at least as nerdy as you :D

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