Wise Words:
When life gives you lemons -- PUCKER UP!
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Thursday, June 05, 2003
Today's post seems oriented around, or at least derived from, other people's posts. Score one for originality.
Anyway. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see just how geeky I am when I saw this test on modern time. Very surprisingly, I'm only "28.59961%" geek -- just a "Total Geek," nothing more! I was expecting more egghead-related remarks. (No comments necessary.)
What's funny about Ozma's most recent post is that I, too, feel myself "merely drifting" -- and in fact, I was thinking about what to do with myself Saturday night in hopes of boring myself to sleep. (Which, come to think of it, is probably why I woke up with a bit of dizziness the following morning -- dizziness spiced with an overly sensitive nose; such olfactory ability, falling on the heels of one of my recent reads, had me chuckling. A nose like Saleem Sinai's? Don't think I didn't try starting my own MCC and contacting the elite of the world mwhahaha... Too bad I don't have a round, piece-of-the-moon face and a useless left ear... and knees that kill...) Born from that moonlight meandering into my future is a list of possible disciplines / subjects to study in grad school, if I make it that far before committing a sinful crime and ending up dozing on thin, roach-infested mattresses in a cement-walled room, with nowhere to look but through thin iron bars at other poor souls with eternally shackled wrists and orange suits. This list I present here (somewhat altered from its native state, as I don't remember what the hell I had thought before I fell asleep):
Ethno: those in the know, know ethno. Currently it doesn't appeal to me much simply because I wouldn't be able to do a damn thing with an advanced degree in that subject. I'm still not sure if I really want to go to the annual SEM meeting, even if it is just to see whether or not I really would enjoy studying it in depth. Though the meeting shall be in sunny Miami... spending all that money to hob-nob with people potentially just as snobby as Wildcats.... urgh.
Linguistics: this really shouldn't surprise anyone, since I'm a polyglot (C'mon, do ordinary people look up words in a Hindi-English English-Hindi dictionary for fun? Yet something else that should get me points on the Geek Test), but again, what can I do with a degree in that? Soooooooooo many are studying manual languages nowadays, thanks to the ponderings of the Capitol; even my multi-lingual, multi-cultural trident of a background wouldn't compete much among those gladiators in the ASL arena. There's the possiblity of turning my current avocation into a vocation, but I've done that once and look at where that got me (in my current predicament).
Asian Studies (including variations therein): it really seems to me that growing up AZN, one feels obligated to study their original culture / civilization at least somewhat, but should I be another one of many to take that obligation to the advanced-degree level?
International Diplomacy / Relations: I'm not really the diplomatic / political type -- but hey, if people like DUBYA can make it that far, I wonder how far I'll get? *grins* Besides, I am an international person, no?
Engineering (civil, chemical, biochemical -- perhaps others): what can I say, I REALLY miss science these days. (Add another point to that Geek Test.) And with all the talk of Finkelstein these days, I all too often remember what I think of not having taken a physics class -- that I feel very uneducated. And just to imagine if I HAD bothered to take AP with Fink... things might be very, very different at the moment.
Environmental Sciences / Engineering: ditto on the sciences. The reason I'd be interested in taking an environmental spin on my scientific studies? Um, does the amount of pollution an average American creates daily count?
So, some of us are just now entering grad schools... some have already spent a year studying their butts off. And yet there's still one of us who needs to get a grip on what he wants to do with himself. Exasperation, anyone?
Along the lines of what we've been talking about -- I can't remember where I found this, but it sounds good to me.
B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.: Bull Sh*t, More Sh*t and Piled high and Deep.
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