Sick

I just deleted a very long and detailed post about how sick I am - YOU'RE WELCOME - but just know that involves a lot of what's known as "Double Jeopardy", where lots of things are happening all at once and you don't know which end to aim at the toilet. Some thirty-six hours of sleep interrupted by hourly dry heaves and my bowels doing a perfect imitation of a broken rootbeer tap, and now I'm feeling a bit better.

So as far as my diet is concerned, I've had half a sleeve of saltine crackers, a banana and a bottle of PowerAde Zero. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Stein or Pike?

I have a theory that pretty much all the females I know that are between 25 and 40 years old (not the Dudes though, for some reason) can be divided in to two categories: Those who loved R.L. Stein, and those who loved Christopher Pike. Seriously.

All the "Geek Girls" I know within that age bracket, those who I like to think of as the "First Wave Geek Girls" (the ones who ushered in the current age of Geek Girl acceptance and domination), got their start with those late-80's/early-90's horror novels in one way or another.

The followers of R.L. Stein tend to be the collectors, the completionists and the data-gatherering nit-pickers. Which episode of Next Gen did Data's cat, "Spot" first appear in? They know, and probably have it on their phone.

The followers of Christopher Pike are the ones more likely to get *in to* the things they geek out over. Cosplay, crafting, fan fic... they know that Data had a cat and can probably recite the poem that he wrote about his cat.

Am I right?