nerdy giggle

So I hung out with my brother, a bunch of his friends, and my nephew tonight at the Wacky Wednesday races at the speedway.  (Basically, if you have a car and a helmet, you can race.)  Most everyone else is talking about the cars, engines, tires...  My brilliant nephew and I are discussing how to get the t-shit shooting gun to have enough power to shoot something bigger and heavier off into the crowd.  I love my nephew for so many reasons, but especially because he gets my nerdiness and he appreciates it.  We usually get together about once a week, just the two of us and hang out.  My mother and my sister (his mother) asked me once what it is that he and I talk about all of the time, girls? school? teenagers? While we often do talk about those things, we also have discussions that no one else can understand.  My sister keeps trying to get me to tell her what he tells me in confidence, which he really has told me nothing horrible, but I don't want to betray his trust in me.  I just tell her other conversations that we have had, like the lengthy discussion about Einstein's theory or relativity.  That usually shuts her up.  She's intelligent, but not nerdy.  Therefore that kind of conversation bores her to tears, not to mention that some of the concepts are above her head.  I can only imagine how she feels knowing that her son far surpasses her intellectually.  I know that she is proud of him, as am I if you hadn't been able to guess.  However, I get the distinct feeling from time to time that she is slightly intimidated by him.  I know that he is a heck of a lot smarter than I am, and I am nerdy enough to think that it's awesome!  I really am a nerd!