We also decided that all men are aliens.

"Jeff is so cute," Jenn said. "Do you know what he did? He bought me a starter deck for Magic."

I laughed at her. A lot. "Magic?! You're going to be more geeky than I am!"

"I am not more geeky than you!" she protested. I found it terribly amusing that she wants to avoid being geekier than I am.

"All of the things I know about computers put together are not as bad as Magic," I said. She must have agreed with me, all she did was laugh.

Later, though, she actually said "open-source." It's a weird thing to hear her say. She said she's being taught all these things by the boys she hangs out with these days. She told me she even knows about Linux now. "I know about RedHat, at least," she said. "Not the others, like Mandrake or anything."

"You know the names, Jenn!" I said. "That's so cool!" I clutched my hands to my chest, melodramatically. I figured teasing would only make her self-conscious, and it did, but I couldn't help it. It was so funny. I decided to quiz her. "Do you konw which one I use?"

"Yes," she said. "Well, sort of. It starts with an S." Indeed it does! I was impressed. "It's okay," I said, "any girl who knows anything about Linux is totally impressive."

"I know!" she said. "Wayne said he'd marry me, if he didn't have a girlfriend. He said, 'How do you know this stuff?' And I said, 'Well, my roommate ... ' (I started laughing again) " ... and her boyfriend are obsessed!"

"Hey!" I said. "I'm not obsessed with Linux. I don't even know enough. I just like using it because it doesn't suck." So, if I am obsessed with using things that don't suck, then so be my fate.

So now she's heard of Mozilla from someone else besides me, and says she might actually download it (now that I've been asking her to let me download it every time I use her computer). She's also talking about partitioning her hard drive and using Windows and RedHat!

I'm so proud.