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[doyle]

On the plus side, slow week at work means getting research done for my Tales of the Slayer ficathon fic (no, not started yet. No, haven't got the human AU or Spuffy fics done either, eek). The bad side of this is the sheer volume of useless-yet-terribly-interesting information I'm absorbing about the Roman Republic in 48 BC. Why didn't I do history? It's fun and my university does a whole module on Jamestown! Darla fic! Astrophysics is of no use to me! Bah.

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[gloss]

Mmm, history! Always a good thing, *especially* if it leads to more Darla-fic!

I answered your email, but it keeps bouncing back. I'm so sorry.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

No problem! And hmm, that's odd, you're the second person to mention bouncing mail and I'm nowhere near capacity on my account.

I need to make a "just kidding" icon

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Employment opportunities for historians are nil.

Meanwhile, for astrophysicists....

Um. Nevermind.

Re: I need to make a "just kidding" icon

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Heeee *g* (This is why I told my parents I was studying engineering till a week before I enrolled)

Re: I need to make a "just kidding" icon

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

My first degree was in journalism.

A widely discussed point when I was an undergraduate was that if everyone in news from Dan Rather to the obits guy at the Bumphuck Weekly Fishwrap all died tomorrow, there would not be enough positions opened up for everyone graduating in the spring to get jobs in the news business.

:: sobs ::

I went back to school and now have a CS degree. Digression: I took a history of science and tech course, and at one point, a classroom discussion got started where another student started talking about anthropomorphism, which is of course ascribing human attributes to nonhuman things. Thing is, he knew the word, but he couldn't pronounce it, so I helped him. Professor asked how I knew that word, and I said I had a journalism degree, but I went back to school because I wanted a job. That got lots of laughs. I didn't mention my first experience with the word was from Albedo Anthropomorphics a "Fuzzy Animals in Space" comic book, though.

[mefnord.livejournal.com]

You do astrophysics? Wow! Believe me, studying history isn't at all what is made of it (that is so not the right idiom..) My minor is history and it is actually rather sucky... we don't do the interesting stuff and if we do it is discussed to its early death.

no, not started yet

No, me neither. I'm doing Civil War era, which is really interesting, but I have to have a Virginian female soldier as the Slayer. But, the South didn't "employ" females as soldiers! The North apparently did, but not the South. What am I to do? Arghhh...

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

oh, yes, research is utterly absorbing. I found myself researching obscure and basically unnecessarily details for my Tales of the Slayers fic - even though my time and place are more of less familiar for me.

History is my big, big love, but I agree, the employment prospects are vague.

[gwynnega]

Yay history!