May the Fourth be with you

I tried finding a calender in Google Calender's list of available ones to add for "Nerd Holidays." Unfortunately, they don't have an official nerd holiday calender. How am I going to know what day to go out for pie? (Pi Day, 3.14) Or talk like a pirate? (Talk Like A Pirate Day, 9.19) Or the best day to host a Star Wars Marathon?

That would be today, by the way. May 4th, or as it is known on the Internet, "May the Fourth be with you."

So now I have to go and add those dates to my calender manually. Truly, a first world problem. Although nothing trumps first world problems like what I consider the ultimate first world problem, that is, Firefly being cancelled. That one still keeps me up at night.

It's a shame that I'm not hosting a Star Wars Marathon, but I'm not really feeling all that great, so I may curl up with my Star Wars Omnibus comic book on Quinlan Vos. You know, the Jedi with dreadlocks.

I'm still waiting for the day when someone gets my subtle tribute to Quinlan Vos, but they'd have to be a pretty big nerd and observant to boot.

Why am I talking about Star Wars? This must be your first time to my blog. Welcome.

Star Wars is my childhood. More than knights and castles and Power Rangers or whatever else they had at that point, I fought my way to adulthood with a lightsaber and the power of the Force. It shaped my views on sci fi (which could be a negative thing) and I am super excited about the next movie coming out this December. Looks like we get a girl Jedi for a main character!

No, don't look at me like that. I'm not about to go crazy and change Thor to a woman or vote for Hillary Clinton or anything like that. But I am a girl and I do like things being equal when they can be (love being able to vote and hold jobs, yah know?) and there was a serious lack of girl Jedi in the original Trilogy (although there was a serious lack of Jedi, period) and while there were girl Jedi in Episodes 1-3, they were mostly cameo roles. And I'd like to forget that trilogy exists.

So there were guy Jedi, and now we get to see a girl Jedi in action. And since I would obviously be Force sensitive (in the same way I would have gotten my invitation from Hogwarts), I would like to know what it is like to be a girl Jedi.

I guess I could be wrong and those are just Tatooine clothes or something.

May the Fourth be with you! Here's some fun videos to get in the mood.