I have recently moved to a new place, and thus far have failed to properly acquire nerd friends.

When I was in college, I met all of my friends through the local anime club. These friends turned out to be all around nerds, so they introduced me to many other veins of nerddom, such as D&D, other boardgames, and dressing in funny clothing and speaking in funny accents and fighting with various weapons.

In an attempt to duplicate my past success, I went to the local anime club here. But no one talked to me and my attempts to make friends were sort of rebuffed. :( Part of the problem, I think, is that "break" involved omake. "Break" in the old anime club consisted of the lights coming on, people buying refreshments, and wandering around and talking to people. More stuff to watch is not conducive to socializing.

Anyway, having failed to make friends there, I sort of stayed home and watched lots of anime and sci-fi. My neighbor is pretty nerdy, but they didn't have access to droids I was looking for.

Anyway, this weekend I want to a party at a classmate's house. It was pretty funny because there were only 5 of us there; him and his girlfriend, me, and this other couple. And it was like the sun peaking up over the hillside; finally! TWUE GEEKS! Said folks were members of the SCA (not EXACTLY my crowd, but still good), excellent musicians (this is starting to sound familiar), a CS grad student and electrical engineering undergrad (a ha!), and they had brought Munchkin with them. DING DING DING DING.

So we played Munchkin. And I won. But only because I had the kneepads of allure, which forces other people to help you. I had no equipment, so I couldn't fight practically anything, but by forcing a really powerful friend to help me, we managed to take down 50+ points worth of monster. Totally sweet.

Anyway, I hope this is a start of continuing relationship. It has the most promise thus far. I am extremely excited. (Today the male half of the couple friended me on FB, and I friended the female half.) Yay!