1. to what do you attribute your sanity-retention throughout grad school? 2. in what field is your Ph.D.? 3. what is/are your area(s) of specialization? 4. what is the subject of your dissertation? 5. in what way (in your opinion and if at all) does your dissertation challenge the current praxis of humanistic inquiry? 6. if you could work outside academia, while still remaining engrossed in academic discourse, what would you do?
(sorry--don't mean to ambush you, with menacing-looking crab's claw to boot!--but after clicking on the link to your blog via your response to my post on literary_theory, I was intrigued. :)
Which response to which post? 1 - Two things. First, I don't allow myself to wallow in the work. Yes, it's hard, but no, it's not impossible to succeed. Second, I spend a great deal of time training in the martial arts, and that gives me focus, as well as something completely outside of academia to devote energies. Balance is healthy in all things. 2 - American literature. 3 - 19th and 20th century American literature, especially prose fiction and Modernism/postmodernism. 4 - I won't go into too much detail here, but I'm writing on post-1960's historical fiction. 5 - Without going into too much detail here, I work to challenge certain notions about the political engagement of the Romance tradition and provide a new means to read texts that have often been lost in postmodernist readings focusing on genre and stylistic conventions. 6 - I would work in music (I have a background in jazz bass), and would be active in the arts community, which I see as (idealistically) intimately involved in academic discourse.
Here are some oddball questions...rabidotterOctober 24 2005, 00:14:53 UTC
1. Where were you born? 2. How many years have you played rpgs?and 3. Do you still? 4. If you were going to be taken by aliens and never see your home again, who are the last three people you would want to see and what would you tell them? 5. How long is your hair? 6. What was your last pet's name and what sort of pet was/is it?
Re: Here are some oddball questions...elricmelniboneOctober 24 2005, 00:26:42 UTC
1 - MA, USA 2 - RPGS? Role-playing games? For maybe 2-3 years in junior high and high school? 3 - Nope. 4 - My parents and my niece. I would tell my parents how much I loved them, and that they were great parents. I would tell my niece that I love her, and that she can change the world if she sets her mind to it. 5 - Past my shoulders. 6 - My roommate has a dog named Kitsu (half Shiba-inu, half husky), but I consider him ours.
1) When & why did you decide to get into martial arts? 2) What non-academic "real world" jobs have you worked? 3) If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Okay, those are only 3 questions, but it's all I've got.
1 - 3 years ago, one of my professors invited me to train with him in full-contact Jujitsu in the mornings (he was teaching other graduate students for the past year). I'm the only one who still trains. We train in weapons (because of our various combined injuries), but 2 years ago I started kickboxing to round out my training. I no longer do the full-contact Jujitsu, but I train in weapons twice a week and kickboxing (once a week, while I'm easing back into it, due to medical stuff that happened this summer). 2 - I had a paper route through grade school and junior high, then worked in a supermarket while in high school and college, where I made it up to temporary deli/deafood manager. Then I worked overnight unloading trucks for UPS for a few years, and worked one summer for Fed-Ex. 3 - Kentucky.
Not many employment options for an industrious young lad, pulling himself up by his bootstraps, wanting to make a name for himself in the ever-growing economy of his hometown that left other in poverty.
1. If you had a car with On-Star, would you use it? 2. Who is the 'They' in Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau? and why don't they want us to know? 3. If 'They' don't want us to know, then how does Kevin Trudeau know? 4. When do you plan on finding a woman worthy of you instead of the 'best friend' and the e-harmony bitch? 5. What do you do with your hair during work outs? 6. Are any of these questions really worth answering?
1 - No, but because I don't like toys in my car. I've only recently become adjusted to using power windows and a cd player. 2 - "They" are the military-industrial complex that runs your life by tracing your purchases through the various cards you use at various stores. It would be best if you only used cash from here on in. I would tell you what they don't want you to know, but I just won't. 3 - Because he has sold his soul (and one of his orifices) to "them." It's not a pretty deal, and the contract negotiations were a bitch. 4 - Whenever you're ready to take a trip to Vegas. :) 5 - My hair is almost always tied in a pony-tail. I let it out at home sometimes, always when I sleep and shower, and whenever pretty women ask me to (like bestfriend and eHarmony bitch). 6 - Yes, but now Kevin Trudeau is going to put me back on his watch list, and I plan on implicating you. I have no problem with cheeky. As long as you don't, either. :)
I was once in the International Order of DeMolay (no lie, this is totally serious, and yes, I've led an interesting life) - the youth group for the Knights Templar - and no, they are not involved. But I wouldn't put it past the freemasons. They are sketchy. Most likely, it's the stonecutters who have been watching you, though. And don't tease. A hot classicist is what every lonely lit scholar dreams of in the confines of his library cubicle, whispering sweet bits of "De Bello Gallico" to one another. And you're the hottest classicist I've seen since the nuns. (And as lit_girl seems to think I'm cute, I'm now worried about starting trouble between friends. Girlfight!) :)
1. Have you sung in choirs? 2. What is the nicest thing someone has done for you this year? 3. Would you date someone because you feel sorry for them? 4. What is the best part of your personality? 5. Which book/s on your bookshelf at home do you think I'd enjoy reading? (just a guess *g*) 6. Do you want to write a novel?
1 - No, but I played electric bass for my high school chorus, and then in my university jazz band. 2 - I don't really know. There have been so many nice things. Hokey as it sounds, it may be when my niece Mackenzie picked flowers for me (even if they were weeds). 3 - No. 4 - My incredible loyalty. I am the older Irish brother everybody needs in their lives. :) 5 - _The Sot-Weed Factor_ by John Barth and _A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond_, by Percival Everett and James Kincaid. (They are so damn funny, I can't see anybody not liking them.) 6 - Yes, and I have two planned (with notes stuck to a tackboard). The first is a novel about Judas Iscariot, and the second is a postmodernist fictionalization of a philosophical work by Derrida.
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2. in what field is your Ph.D.?
3. what is/are your area(s) of specialization?
4. what is the subject of your dissertation?
5. in what way (in your opinion and if at all) does your dissertation challenge the current praxis of humanistic inquiry?
6. if you could work outside academia, while still remaining engrossed in academic discourse, what would you do?
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1 - Two things. First, I don't allow myself to wallow in the work. Yes, it's hard, but no, it's not impossible to succeed. Second, I spend a great deal of time training in the martial arts, and that gives me focus, as well as something completely outside of academia to devote energies. Balance is healthy in all things.
2 - American literature.
3 - 19th and 20th century American literature, especially prose fiction and Modernism/postmodernism.
4 - I won't go into too much detail here, but I'm writing on post-1960's historical fiction.
5 - Without going into too much detail here, I work to challenge certain notions about the political engagement of the Romance tradition and provide a new means to read texts that have often been lost in postmodernist readings focusing on genre and stylistic conventions.
6 - I would work in music (I have a background in jazz bass), and would be active in the arts community, which I see as (idealistically) intimately involved in academic discourse.
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2. How many years have you played rpgs?and
3. Do you still?
4. If you were going to be taken by aliens and never see your home again, who are the last three people you would want to see and what would you tell them?
5. How long is your hair?
6. What was your last pet's name and what sort of pet was/is it?
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2 - RPGS? Role-playing games? For maybe 2-3 years in junior high and high school?
3 - Nope.
4 - My parents and my niece. I would tell my parents how much I loved them, and that they were great parents. I would tell my niece that I love her, and that she can change the world if she sets her mind to it.
5 - Past my shoulders.
6 - My roommate has a dog named Kitsu (half Shiba-inu, half husky), but I consider him ours.
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2) What non-academic "real world" jobs have you worked?
3) If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Okay, those are only 3 questions, but it's all I've got.
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2 - I had a paper route through grade school and junior high, then worked in a supermarket while in high school and college, where I made it up to temporary deli/deafood manager. Then I worked overnight unloading trucks for UPS for a few years, and worked one summer for Fed-Ex.
3 - Kentucky.
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2. Who is the 'They' in Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About
by Kevin Trudeau? and why don't they want us to know?
3. If 'They' don't want us to know, then how does Kevin Trudeau know?
4. When do you plan on finding a woman worthy of you instead of the 'best friend' and the e-harmony bitch?
5. What do you do with your hair during work outs?
6. Are any of these questions really worth answering?
sorry, i am feeling a bit cheeky tonight.
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2 - "They" are the military-industrial complex that runs your life by tracing your purchases through the various cards you use at various stores. It would be best if you only used cash from here on in. I would tell you what they don't want you to know, but I just won't.
3 - Because he has sold his soul (and one of his orifices) to "them." It's not a pretty deal, and the contract negotiations were a bitch.
4 - Whenever you're ready to take a trip to Vegas. :)
5 - My hair is almost always tied in a pony-tail. I let it out at home sometimes, always when I sleep and shower, and whenever pretty women ask me to (like bestfriend and eHarmony bitch).
6 - Yes, but now Kevin Trudeau is going to put me back on his watch list, and I plan on implicating you.
I have no problem with cheeky. As long as you don't, either. :)
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and I will be in Vegas weeked of March 11. Be there or miss your chance forever.
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And don't tease. A hot classicist is what every lonely lit scholar dreams of in the confines of his library cubicle, whispering sweet bits of "De Bello Gallico" to one another. And you're the hottest classicist I've seen since the nuns. (And as lit_girl seems to think I'm cute, I'm now worried about starting trouble between friends. Girlfight!) :)
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2. What is the nicest thing someone has done for you this year?
3. Would you date someone because you feel sorry for them?
4. What is the best part of your personality?
5. Which book/s on your bookshelf at home do you think I'd enjoy reading? (just a guess *g*)
6. Do you want to write a novel?
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2 - I don't really know. There have been so many nice things. Hokey as it sounds, it may be when my niece Mackenzie picked flowers for me (even if they were weeds).
3 - No.
4 - My incredible loyalty. I am the older Irish brother everybody needs in their lives. :)
5 - _The Sot-Weed Factor_ by John Barth and _A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond_, by Percival Everett and James Kincaid. (They are so damn funny, I can't see anybody not liking them.)
6 - Yes, and I have two planned (with notes stuck to a tackboard). The first is a novel about Judas Iscariot, and the second is a postmodernist fictionalization of a philosophical work by Derrida.
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