"I think we've got ourselves a reader."

Habitually, I think of myself as ignorant. Not "pig-ignorant", a phrase with a lot of mutable meanings, but ignorant. There is so terrifying much I don't know. I only speak one language! At the same time, I am aware that I know more than some people. I know this because people are always asking me damn trivia questions. And this is, of course, because I read- and most of the people who ask me trivia questions do not.

In my circle of friends, everyone reads. So we all know stuff. We're not magical, beautiful superhuman people either. A lot of folks read. In general, fans read. Fans can only be distinguished from graduate students (assuming someone is not both, of course) by the fact that the particular subject they know everything about is not viewed as "academically legitimate."

( These are the things I know, I know, these are the things I know... )

In spite of all that, I can and do lose at Trivial Pursuit. In my defense, some of those questions are just plain wrong. Jogging? Is not a sport.