I'm Just A Teenage Nerdbag, Baby

Into my teen years I started to become less awkward and geeky, it seemed. Though I believe I was still as geeky, it was the time starting to change toward the "geek chic" era that led to me seeming less geeky. I can say I wasn't as awkward as I used to be. I had "found" myself more and was much more comfortable with who I was by the age of sixteen. Part of that is most likely due to my losing my virginity very shortly before I turned sixteen. That is a HUGE help toward ridding yourself of awkwardness, and helping toward some cool points with high school peers. I still had phases that I look back at as embarrassing, as many people do, but fucking hell do my high school yearbook pictures send chills down my spine. One year I looked like a Mexican prostitute, with an asshair looking mustache and greasy hair; gold Mercedes charm dangling from my gold chain necklace. Another fashion I punished myself with was wearing gold rimmed Oakley sunglasses (fake ones bought from a Jamaican man with a briefcase in Manhattan on a school trip), Timberland boots, and baggy, saggy jeans. As for personality, I was starting to really love certain types of comedy, mostly British humour, and due to my endearing passion for science I became an atheist at about sixteen years old. I had a very loyal group of friends and loved all of them very much. I believe they were the most important factors allowing my geekiness to remain a major part of who I was, while never causing me to be ashamed of it. That in turn, once geek became all out chic, directly caused me to be pretty highly ranked in the geek chic world. I only had one girlfriend during my entire high school experience so that was another important factor toward allowing my geekiness to stay within myself without having to feel I couldn't express it if I had to. She was kind of a geek too so it all worked very well indeed.