OK, I just had to share the immense geekiness of my weekend.

It all began Thursday night, when a co-worker and I went to cover the premiere of “The Dark Knight”  for Friday’s paper. We stood around and talked to people who love Batman, and it made my girly, comic book character-loving heart happy. I hoped to stay and see the movie at the midnight showing, but both theaters sold out and I was super-tired.

Fast-forward to Friday night. I was all anxious for the boyfriend to get here in town so we could go see the movie. Sadly, he got stuck in traffic on the way here and we missed both the 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. showings. So, 10 p.m. it was.

I’m not going to go into an all-out review of the movie, but this was probably the best superhero movie I’ve seen. Bar-none. And Heath Ledger’s Joker … All I can say is I wouldn’t want that guy to be loose in my city. Yikes.

Saturday, the boyfriend was busy re-wiring his car all day, so I needed something to do. I stole the copy of “Twilight” I had let his sister borrow and spent the afternoon sitting in a camping chair, in the air-conditioned garage (would I have been outside for hours in 90 plus-degree weather and major humidity otherwise?) reading “Twilight” again. I finished the first 400 pages before I decided to go home. Ha!

Yesterday, on my way back home, I stopped in at Barnes & Noble to get some reference books for my new Shakespeare-editing project. I ended up walking out with four books, one of them the “Shakespeare for Idiots” and three different annotated copies of the same play. The sales girl looked at me like I was insane, and I didn’t feel like qualifying my purchases by saying, “I’m working on a project to edit most of Shakespeare’s plays down to about 1 hour and annotate them so high schools and theater companies won’t be so afraid of tackling them,” so I just put up with the weird looks. I tend to get the strange stares in bookstores, anyway, since I normally walk out with several novels, biographies and other pieces of literature from various genres. It’s common for me to purchase Shakespeare, poetry, some really random classics, a modern novel or two and some YPL in the same trip.

Schmeh. At least I’m not a finicky reader!