Playing it Cool

It's true that everybody can be kind of dork sometimes. We all have tendencies to like certain things that are not necessarily "hip," and it's okay because it usually makes us more interesting than the masses. For me, my dork side comes out to play from 3:10-4:40 every Tuesday and Thursday during my New Religious Movements class. A religious studies class that is centered around the study of new age "cult" religions. We have studied religions as well known as The Nation of Islam, as taboo as the Church of Scientology and as completely boonkers as the Unarius Academy of Science ( A UFO religion whose founder is believed to be the Angel Gabriel sent from Heaven to tell the world of the coming of the aliens) It's absolutely fascinating. However I usually have to hide my excited panting from my friend Sheila who I have the class with. Sheila does not share my passion for crazy cultish religions. Rather she thinks the class is weird and boring and pointless. She spends most of her time in class planning parties for the weekend or sending S.O.S. texts messages to her friends. I simply tolerate her complaints as we ride the train together back home, not really listening, but rather anxiously awaiting the new and exciting things I have yet to learn.