From Geek to Chic?

Yesterday, the uber-fabulous where-has-she-been-all-my-life? (thanks to Fayza for virtually introducing us!) Gwen Bell asked a question that I myself had previously pondered:

My answer is always the same.  Yes.

Why?

As I learned at my ten-year high school reunion, sometimes time heals all wounds.  Sometimes we needed to grow up and out of who we were - or who we thought we were.  

Future civilizations will find yearbooks and decide
that high school was a barbaric rites-of-passage
thrust upon adolescents to cull the weak
from the herd.

                                                            - the slackmistress

Oh, fuck it.  Sometimes a couple of Emmy Nominations and the following transformation doesn't hurt, either.

Then:

Now:

Happily a geek,

the slackmistress