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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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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.