Sometimes a t-shirt is all you need.

Because I have nothing else to occupy my mind and idle fingers while at work from 8am-12pm every Monday through Thursday, I’ve taken to perusing online shops.  This is a dangerous game I’m playing.  I know that, but I have chosen to tempt fate.  I must give myself credit, though, because I never turn to online nerd shopping until after reading at least a section in my Shakespeare book and completing both the Daily Jigsaw and the USA Today crossword.  That’s will power right there.

Anyway, some of the things I’ve found are simply too great to keep to myself, so I once again will be sharing a collection of delightfully dorky t-shirts for your viewing pleasure.

<– That, but on a shirt.  Fantastic.  Books and magic: two of my favorite things.

Courtesy of woot.com.

We all know that a closet of nerdy t-shirts wouldn’t be complete without a Monty Python reference.  The fact that this happens one of my favorite movies is just a bonus.  I think I can even get over the fact that I’d be wearing math on my shirt.

To shift themes a little bit, here are two t-shirts that explain my last year of undergrad studies perfectly.  One can only hope it goes up from here and that my Master’s thesis turns out to be just as fun a project as my Honors undergrad one was.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Make that three because I just found this one:

Here’s something I tell my boyfriend on a daily basis.  Perhaps displaying it in mathematical concepts will help him understand.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  And last but not least, in case you didn’t know already that I’m a nerd: 

While none of these shirts can beat the glory of the JSTOR t-shirt I found a few weeks ago, they all certainly made me chuckle while counting down the minutes I was stuck in the office yesterday.

Shopping = Panacea… even for geeks like me.

I spent today shopping.  It was great.  I’m usually not one to spend hours at the mall lusting after items far too expensive for anyone to ever actually buy them, but sometimes I just want to spend a day wandering around stores, strolling up down aisle after aisle.  Most of the time, I don’t even end up buying anything.  Today, however, that was not the case.

I’m trying to build a new wardrobe for grad school which is turning out to be more difficult than I anticipated.  While I found some wonderful things today (shirt covered in tiny giraffes, super soft blue scarf…), I’ve also got my eye on some especially nerdy online finds.

1. A shirt that explains it all.  I was recently introduced to a website called Think Geek.  It’s a great little gem of a website filled with everything geeky.  From t-shirts to cubicle decorations, pretty much everything on this site makes me smile or laugh.  Of course half of the jokes revolve around crazy computer lingo I don’t understand, but I’ve been told that those, too, are quite funny.  I’ll have to take my boyfriend’s word for it.

2. My favorite novels on t-shirts?  What could be better?  I found this site through a fashion blog I’ve been reading for the last few months and immediately wanted almost every shirt they make.  How great are they?  Now I don’t even have to walk around with my nose in a book to look like a pretentious English major.  I can display my affinity for the written word right there on my t-shirt.  Fantastic.  I’m loving the Catcher shirt, but I don’t think my English grad student wardrobe will ever be complete without at least six of these great t’s.  Yes, you can say it; I already know I’m a nerd.

3. JSTOR.  On a t-shirt.  That’s all.

And now I’m off to scour the web for some more geeky, nerdy goodness.