Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Alexandria Nobiling

Once a madame of glam, now a Transcendentalist content with jam and Spam. Her transformation is quite incredible really; an intelligent young lass attached to her cell phone and hair straightener with a fancy for selfies and fetching fingernails initially worried about abandoning these advantageous artifacts for four twenty-four. Yet, the story ends dramatically...well, not really. The story ends without makeup, tangled blonde hair, in sweat pants and happy for a week long tech-break. With pages of written, reflective data on self through the eyes of Emerson, Thoreau, and McCandless do not be surprised if Miss Nobiling becomes anticonformity and antisociety -- dare say Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Clarisse McClellan, or Lizzie Bennet -- and begins commonly citing philosophical verbiage regardless of situational appropriateness. So congrats Alexandria Nobiling, transcendental hoi polloi in heels and English Geek of the Week.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Brooke “L” Roes

Diligent in progress, accepting of defeats, highbrow in error insight. True life-long educational practices teachers hope to instill in their students, but intrinsically know are innate qualities. I hired ‘L’ to an internship as my personal assistant, offering her some experience into the career she wishes to one day attain (as a personal assistant). What I noticed was exceptional. ‘L’ is strikingly consistent in growth, largely because she asks questions of substance. Even more uncommon was her ownership of mistakes, academic or otherwise; no excuses or blame but acknowledgement. Totes Cray-Cray, but as my intern she even took ownership of my mistakes, which I felt quite benevolent of her. Defying the undesirable humanistic quality of falling into the same hole twice, moreover, solidified her Geek of the Week status. Once conscious of expectation and pitfall ‘L’ exercises a pragmatic approach towards accomplishment. So congrats to ‘L’ and her Geek of the Week status, but now she needs to get back to work...for me.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Justice (League) Flick

Courage-Honor-Fate-Fame-Glory-JUSTICE. All Anglo-Saxon lifestyle virtues and themes in the epic tale of Beowulf. I equally admired each desirable trait, until recently...when I learned that JUSTICE was unequivocally, indisputably, explicitly, unmistakably, obviously the most valuable and applicable Anglo-Saxon trait. How does one come to such a prophetic and defined sense of life altering clarity. The overpowering dominance of JUSTICE. The only epic warrior of greater cosmic importance to the Anglo-Saxons than Beowulf was JUSTICE. In fact, flash forward roughly 1600 years and an entire JUSTICE League, heros reflecting each of the above traits, is formed to protect humanity from influentially dark forces. So Congrats JUSTICE...master of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Geek of the Week.

Geek of the Week

(An unconventionally sweet and awesome honor!)

Alex Eisenbarth-Matt Kerner-Chandler Hageman

After reading, reflecting, digesting, and assimilating the three above names, you may say to yourself “Self, what commonality do these three individuals share uniting them gloriously forever in Geek of Week lore and legend...survival videocasts, modeling contracts, ranch rodeo titles, Bush's Baked Beans secret family recipe? ” Well, here is a clue: Moose, Nacho, #Tractors. Still turbid, another clue: Piggy and Fishy’s Epic Adventure. For those still stumped, the three above individuals are authors of the award winning children’s book Piggy and Fishy’s Epic Adventure, co-authors being Banana, Ace Jaws, and Dragon [three second grade elementary students]. While writing a riveting children’s tale full of verbiage which sports beautifully descriptive linguistics, not just narrative, Moose, Nacho, #Tractors became elementary school heros believed capable of altering the universe...or at least introducing young-ins to some cool new highfalutin ways-a-write’n. Congrats Geeks of the Week Alex Eisenbarth, Matt Kerner, and Chandler Hageman.