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Profiles in Nerdery: Jodi Chromey, Blogger

1. Astrological Sign: Gemini
2. Time at the Nerdery: 9 days
3. When people ask you what you do, how do you respond: I’m a blogger. No. Really. I am. A professional blogger. [note: I'm having a really hard time not putting ironic air-quotes around professional]
4. Favorite kinds of projects to work on: So far, all of them. Come on, I’m only on day nine. So far my projects have included getting to know my fellow nerds and starting a blog.
5. What one thing about The Nerdery surprises people the most when you tell them about it: That it actually exists. I’m a writer and prone to what I like to call acts of imagination. My friends, however, have much more colorful names for it, the most family-friendly of which would be, um, lying. So when I tell people that there’s this magical place in Bloomington that has free pop, friendly dogs that roam the halls, Guitar Hero, and that they actually pay people to go there and make cool stuff for the web, they don’t believe it at all.
6. Seven dream Jeopardy Categories: The music of Paul Westerberg; Contemporary American Literature; The First Amendment; Rock & Roll Memoirs; Pixar movies; Bravo Reality TV Shows; and Stupid Questions People Ask the Unusually Tall
7. Favorite Fictional or Historical Nerd: It’s a tie between Potsie Weber from Happy Days or Chi-Mo from King Dork by Frank Portman
8. According to the Wikipedia entry on Nerd, some nerds show a pronounced interest in subjects which others tend to find dull or complex . . . especially topics related to science, disambiguation, mathematics and technology. Do you know what disambiguation is? Care to venture a guess? [no cheating] I had no idea what it meant. I had never even heard of the word, but then I looked it up when I was creating these questions.

First!

The first post is always the hardest. It sounds like a cliche, but that’s only because it’s the truth. You wouldn’t think it’d be so tough. Really, how many people read the first post of a blog anyway? Generally when you find a new blog you just start at the point of discovery, only delving into the archives when the author points you in that direction.

But, every year on the Blogiversary that first post is paraded around and pointed at while we say, “This is where we started. Look how far we’ve come.”

This poor first post, so much weight to bear. And, as if that weren’t enough of a burden, there’s also the job of having to introduce the blog to the world, declare its intentions, set its goals, and establish its voice. Yikes!

You have to start somewhere. So here we go.

Welcome to Inside the Nerdery, Sierra Bravo’s blog. I’m Jodi and I’ll be your guide. Over the next week or so, we’ll get to know each other. I’ll tell you a little about me, show you around the Nerdery, and you’ll leave warm, encouraging comments and suggestions about what you’d like to see on this blog.

After that, the sky’s the limit! Some of things you can expect to find here: profiles in nerdery, stories about what we’re working on and who we’re working with; links to fun things, interesting things, or silly things; and as-yet-to-be-determined things.

Not too bad for a first post, huh? It only gets easier from here.