A Nerd For Words

I was updating my twitter bio yesterday and I had to seriously think about one part. 'English geek'. That orginally referred to my English degree; how I loved the English language and everything about it. It's funny how things change. I still love words, I still love the way language is and works, but I've fallen out of love with the subject. I chose my degree because of the English half. Creative Writing was just an added bonus. Everythings turned upside down and inside out. It's not that I despise the English half of my degree, but it's like a chore now, it doesn't interest me. There was a time I dreamt of being a linguist and carrying out studies on language and autism. Now I wish I could drop the subject altogether, make my degree full field Creative Writing. Unfortunately that doesn't exist at Kingston. Writing has always been my passion, and now that it's become a possible career path for me, English has lost its appeal. I hope my English teacher from secondary school never reads this. But then again, it was her who inspired me to write, who first told me it was something I should persue. I have no motivation to work towards my English modules, I just want to write. So I suppose I'm not an English geek anymore. Not in the way I was, at least. Now I suppose I'm a language geek. A nerd for words.