dancing in the deepest oceans

Anne walked into my office, and proudly pointed to the T-shirt she was wearing. It said “I [heart] my geek.”
“Is that true?” I said, “Do you really love your geek?”
“I do when he gets off the computer so we can go take care of our errands.” She said.
I stood up, and kissed her nose. “Okay,” I said, “I just have to change my shirt and we can go.”

“What’s wrong with the shirt you have on right now?” She said.
“Look at it,” I said.
“There are only ten types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
“Right.” I said, “I need to change this.”
“Why?” She said.
“Because it’s like you’re wearing a shirt that says ‘I’m with stupid,’ and if I wear this shirt . . .”
“Oh. You’re him.” she said.
I laughed, and walked into our bedroom. I returned wearing my Vandals T-shirt.
“Now everyone will wonder who your geek is!” I said.
She looked at me for a moment and replied, “Uhm. Probably not. But I still love you.”
I held her hand the entire time we were out.
After we got home, I went for a run through my neighborhood. The sun was beginning to set, and a light breeze shook a few leaves from the trees over my head.
“Mother Nature thinks it’s October,” I thought, “I like that.”
I reached the corner, and turned down a new street. A car pulled up next to me and honked.
“Well, hello there, Mister Wheaton,” said the driver, one of my very friendly neighbors, “How are you?”
“I’m well,” I said.
“And how is your beautiful wife?”
I smiled and said, “She’s beautiful!”
Because she is.
When I got home, I walked into the dining room. Anne sat at the table, and giggled as she read The Onion.
“Do you know how much I love you?” I said.
She looked up at me, smiled, and held up two fingers.
I shook my head.
She held up four fingers.
I shook my head.
She held up ten fingers.
I shook my head, and held my arms out at my sides, palms open. “This much,” I said.
“That’s an awful lot,” she said.
“Yeah, it sure is.”

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108 thoughts on “dancing in the deepest oceans”

  2. Aww, this is so cute! And just for the record, I envy your nice weather. It’s currently 43 degrees and raining in Colorado Springs.

  5. Hehehe. This sounds SO MUCH like me and my wife, right down to the t-shirts (I (heart) my geek) and the “10 types”. Even the numbers for love (our arbitrary standard is seven – for no good reason – or “bigger than a breadbox”).
    She was laughing at me just last night when I was telling her about how cool it was that I could add a hires map to Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) of Kennedy Space Center. She said to me, “You’re such a nerd”, at which point I went into an extended rant about the difference between geeks and nerds. That just made her laugh harder.

  6. M_Nicodemus wrote:
    Love the story Wil, … It should be “there are 10 kinds of people”
    I am a little scared – I automatically translated the statement into binary (read “ten” and translated it into “10” and thence to binary two.
    Another idea – you have all these geek couples sighing and us geek singles envying. How ’bout a geek match up thing?

  8. nice.My teeth are rotting away as I type, but still, nice. My pc smells like a box of lemon freshened borax laundry detergent, but, still nice.

  10. HAHA! My girlfriend and I have the same exact shirts (that is, she has the I my geek, and I have the binary one). We call them our “matching shirts!” Most excellent!

  11. OMG, my DH has that same shirt. 🙂 I don’t have any shirts that say “I love my geek” though.
    Speaking of t-shirts, my DH will only wear t-shirts. Did you know that t-shirts aren’t just t-shirts? He has good t-shirts, old t-shirts, geek t-shirts, vacation t-shirts, logo t-shirts, etc. I’d say that we spend more than our fair share of our hard earned money at thinkgeek.com.
    In November 1995, we went to Comdex in Las Vegas. Those were the days when the net was new…anyway, we acted like idiots just to get free t-shirts from different vendors. He’s still wearing some of them! Back then, we were in college so it was a cheap way to replenish your wardrobe.
    Do you really own all that cool stuff on the back of your JAG book, or did you just borrow it for the photo shoot? I don’t think you should change your binary tee when you go out anymore — why not show the world how smart you really are? 🙂
    Later,
    L.

  12. My God, Wheaton. I want to throw up.
    A little bit is fine, Wil, but blech!
    It’s like when I eat too many Krispy Kremes.
    First donut? Great. Second? Good.
    Sixth? I want to throw up.
    It’s just like that.

  13. We all love Anne’s geek! Thats WHY we’re here
    right?
    That kind of writing..the honesty..the truth…
    is what made me a WWDN addict.
    AND VERY PROUD OF IT TOO!!!
    Thanks you two..it was beautiful.

  14. I am a single Geek… I was feeling down before I read it. The story was good. When I read the comments and saw how many ppl are in geek-love I felt alone again
    *Sigh*
    I want a shirt like that. “Do they come complete with a Girl this Geek could love?”
    Maybe I will just buy the new BATTLEFRONT! Feeling better already.

  15. I always love to read your stories about Anne. It makes me realise that all the silly lovey dovey things that are going on in my new relationship right now….have the potential to continue long into it.
    And like yours I hope they do continue. Because its these silly little things that make you feel so good and make me realise one reason why I am in this relationship.
    (And slightly off topic. To the person who made the second post – Angela Peterson. Are you Angela Peterson of Bakersfield, CA. Formerly of Newcastle, Australia? Or is it just a funny name co-incidence?)

  17. To everyone who gets it: isn’t it wonderful?
    To everyone who doesn’t get it: I sincerely hope that someday, you do.

  18. That’s so sweet. Times like those are what makes being married so incredible. When you can think about how much you love someone for no apparent reason at all. Aww… makes me miss my husband! Must email him now!

  21. Wil,
    “Love is a many splendored thing…
    In the morning mist,
    Two lovers kissed,
    And the world stood still…”
    That’s all I remember of this old tune.
    And it’s VAYA con Dios, Leon.
    Freeman 🙂

  23. M_Nicodemus: note the funky symbols around the sentence that the word you have a problem with appears in. They’re, like, significant and stuff. 🙂

  26. Very Sweet!
    It kinda reminds me of something that happened yesterday. I have a deli and my teenage son usually comes in at lunch so he doesn’t have to eat the school food. (We have an open campus at the High Schools here.)When he was about to leave to go back to school, he had a sad look on his face. I said, “What’s up?” He said, “You haven’t given me a hug in two days!!” I said, “I think you’re wrong, but just in case, I’ll just have to give you an extra big one”.
    He is 16 and isn’t afraid to let his friends know that he loves his Papa.

  34. About this post, Matthew S. Schwartz said
    “It’s like when I eat too many Krispy Kremes.
    First donut? Great. Second? Good.
    Sixth? I want to throw up.”
    Umm.. Matthew, I have to ask:
    Why the hell do you eat past donuts numbered four and five? ; )
    I’m just jealous, Wil. Been married over 20 years and we’ve seriously lost some of that silliness.
    Still, I love my wife THIS (picture two arms held googolplex feet apart) MUCH!

  35. Jack, thanks for the link. I was looking for it in actual clothing stores. How silly of me.
    This post reminds me of my sister(who the t-shirt is for) and her geek fiancee. I haven’t seen a love that true between two people for a long time. It makes me so happy knowing that their future looks so beautiful. If Wil and Anne can still be crazy in love, I know that my sis and her fiancee will be too.

  37. Wil: I just got your book”just a geek” and Iam on pg 76 and it is awsome. I have alot of questions though, do you think you could answer some of them? If so my email is [email protected]
    I know you will probbly never write to me but hey… it is worth a shot. if you do then you do and if you don’t then you don’t, If you don’t I wont think anyless. I know you are busy. well tell every body I said. bye
    Cody

  38. About this post, Chuck Field said:
    “Umm.. Matthew, I have to ask:
    Why the hell do you eat past donuts numbered four and five? ; )”
    Yeah, that is a good question.
    I’ve only done it a couple times, mostly as experiments to see how many donuts I could eat before feeling nauseous.
    (4)
    And Wil: If you had written the story in May, I would have gotten it. But after the July breakup, I don’t get it anymore. I sincerely hope I get it again someday.

  39. Wil: I told my wife about this post lat night when i got home from work. She told me that she would rather not tell others that im a geek. this sux. first you get to be in movis and in sttng. and now you get a cool wife.
    i hate you :)j/k

  40. Jim says: “M_Nicodemus: note the funky symbols around the sentence that the word you have a problem with appears in. They’re, like, significant and stuff. :-)”
    Ahhh! Thanks Jim, all I can do is plead lack of caffeine and spending to much time staring at 1’s and 0’s to recall that other number base people use.

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  43. It’s always nice to see or hear of couples that make me and my husband not look quite so disgustingly mushy. 😉
    Wil, you *do* have the Wally Pleasant album “Songs About Stuff”, right? Y’all’s theme song is on there – track #7, if it weren’t obvious. 😉

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  45. Hey Wil we can’t leave messages and congratulate you for being CAPTAIN Crusher because you’ve not put a comments link on the last entry!
    Congrats Anyway.
    Good cause and glad to see you supporting it. Some people thought you should’ve gotten your own ship on NG may be one day you will in one of the movies.
    Have a great day!
    Just love your website.

  48. Um, okay, yeah. This entry just made me hate being single even more than I already do. But I forgive you, Wil. The world needs more sweet guys like you, and certainly more sweet guys who aren’t afraid to say, “I love you,” to their significant other.
    -Vanessa Nichole

  49. Wil, you *do* have the Wally Pleasant album “Songs About Stuff”, right? Y’all’s theme song is on there – track #7, if it weren’t obvious. 😉
    Posted by Kilbia at September 22, 2004 09:58 AM
    :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
    I can’t believe someone made reference to a Wally Pleasant song!!! Now THAT’S obscure!! Kilbia, you rule!
    Incidentally, my wife and I are such geeks, we included a quote from Wally’s song “First Love” in our wedding program!! (OK, we had other songs in there too.)

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