![]() ![]() Did that mean I’d been living in a bubble? The immediate evidence suggested yes. In addition, we tended to hang out together. It was just that we also happened to be athletic and didn’t wear our brains on the outside. Hell, I hadn’t made Dean’s List and Summa Cum Laude on my looks, plus some of my fraternity brothers, the Alpha Lambda Alphas, were damned smart. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand or appreciate intelligence. Taking a breath, I plunged into the flow of humans and let the river take me. ![]() ![]() Rand Charles, jock stranger in a strange geek land. He glanced up at me like I came from another planet. One guy in a blue knit beanie, who automatically made me tense because he reminded me of my least favorite person, sported a T-shirt that said, I could explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you. To the final Quiz Bowl matchup between Harvard and U of W, Madison. ![]() They carried books, tablets, and every variety of super-tech phone invented, and all of them surged in one direction-exactly where I needed to go. I took a step into the hotel lobby, dodging a flow of people, most at least a head shorter than me, sporting khakis, plaid shirts, Star Wars and Marvel T-shirts, glasses… Jesus, there was even a Darth Vader costume. ![]()
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