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eponymous_roseNow, because I've friended quite a few new people in the last few days (*waves*), and possibly also because I love being all meta, I'm gonna write up a bit of an update on what's going in IN ZEE MIND OF ME. In other words, this is my blog: the abridged version, for those of you who'd rather not sort through the mess.
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eponymous_rose:1. Work. I'm a research assistant (a sixteen-week summer position) for a hyperactive professor of meteorology, which means that I do a lot of spreadsheets and graphs and clean up data that's gotten dusty from years of disuse. Sometimes there's calculus. Occasionally there's stormchasing and field trips. Because of my general, um, enthusiasm, I finished the whole four months' worth of work in a few weeks, so now I'm just puttering along and doing a lot of my own thing. Which means that I've wound up with the perfect job - I can skip a day to relax and read a book if I so choose, or I can go in for nine hours and do graphs and meetings and everything. I'm pretty dang happy about this whole thing. And the data I'm working with is absolutely fascinating, and the people are all so nice. I'm getting paid well, making connections in the academic world, and my resume's positively glowing. So, yes. Much cause for squee.
2. School. In September, I'll be starting my third year of an honours degree in atmospheric science, with a definite slant toward violent weather forecasting and cloud physics. My coursework over the last two years has been positively gruelling, but I've adored every minute of it (yes, even all that moaning and groaning about Mechanics!). I take courses in atmospheric fluid dynamics, environmental conservation science and risk management, calculus and differential equations, chemistry, physical geography, geology, statistics, mechanics, computer programming, electronics, and, occasionally, music. I am a total and complete geek. I love what I study, so I study what I love. My medium-term plans include taking sixteen months beginning next May to do an internship as a forecaster at the severe weather station in my province, then coming back for my last year and going from there to my Master's and Doctorate. I'm still not sure whether I want to go in for forecasting or academia, so I'm making sure I get a taste of both.
3. Piano. I've played for twelve years and managed to get the RCM Grade 10 certification, which really just means that I've spent a long time playing piano. Now I play for fun, and do a little work on the side as an accompanist and teacher where needed. Occasionally, someone will rope me into doing a concert; I complain and complain about performing, but secretly love it to bits. I'm not remarkably good, but I adore playing and am trying to work my way through the vast majority of the well-known piano repertoire before the age of twenty. :D I have weird goals. I'm always fangirling Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but I'll have much shorter-lived crushes on other bits of music from time to time (currently? Fauré and Clementi!).
4. Violin. I've played for a bit less than two months, which is about as painful as it sounds. But it's fun, and I'm learning slowly but surely. I can play, um, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in five keys. So there.
5. Fencing. I've been fencing for seven years (minus two years due to knee surgery, I guess) - I fence épée and am really pretty inept at the other weapons. Currently, I'm fencing with a sort of rebel group of épéeists who aren't affiliated with any club, most of whom are international-level competitors, which is intimidating as all-get-out. Apart from the couple hours of walking to and from work/school each day, this is my best source of exercise. I'm still not sure whether I'm ready to begin fencing competitively again, or whether I want to try and renew my coaching certification (trying to maintain authority over a dozen fourteen-year-old boys with swords was fun and all, but you know. Not really.).
6. Fandom. This is a big one - I'm generally pretty obsessive about my fandoms. That said, I definitely don't want to take 'em too seriously! I'm a great fan of crack!fic, silly crossovers, and general insanity and off-the-wall theories. I'm also extremely interested in internet culture (if I were to write a book on the topic, I'd call it "The Internet r srs business"), and fandom plays a big part of it. In general, I ship everyone/everyone (or, if I'm feeling adventurous, everyone/everyone/everyone/the kitchen sink), so long as it's written well. I read a fair bit of fanfiction, and have been known to leave long and unnecessarily rambly reviews for the horrified authors. *cough* I'm not above squeeing over stuff I like and pouting over stuff I didn't, but I'm also more than willing to get into ridiculously in-depth discussions about anything and nothing. I tend to be more of a lurker than anything else when it comes to big fandom-related groups (the exception being Holmesian.net). So there you go!
7. Doctor Who. Relatively recent discovery, thanks toimsanehonest's ebil corrupting influence! *dramatic chord* The show runs on the power of absolute, unabashed crack (I challenge anyone to try and explain the show to a non-viewer and still sound sane at the end of it) and still manages to be all kinds of awesome. My journal is, at the moment, pretty dang DW-themed. :D Eccleston is my favourite Doctor, followed closely by, and this surprised even me, McGann. I'm absolutely in love with the Big Finish audios (favourites are, I think, "Seasons of Fear" (Cornell, fun time-travel, and wicked-awesome continuity/foreshadowing!), "The Chimes of Midnight" (freaky/clever Christmas piece), and "Caerdroia" (because I'm a sucker for the silly that is Tigger!Doctor and the creepy that is Eeyore!Doctor)). Current DW-related projects include an epic bit of fanfiction featuring Rose and the Tenth Doctor and a ficathon entry, neither of which will see the light of day until I get around to working on them some more. Heehee.
8. Sherlock Holmes. I have a Basil Rathbone calendar over my bed. That explains a lot, I think. I'm also a great fan of Brett, but my absolute favourite Holmes and Watson have to be Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. I'm a nut for radio plays (comes of helping my Dad fiddle away with his shortwave when I was teensy) in general and have a fairly substantial collection of public-domain OTR that I'm hoping to upload shortly for the good people at Holmesian.net. Current Holmesian projects include about a dozen half-written stories that might actually be fairly good if I whittle away at them long enough, and a Hiatus-era fic that I've been told to write. *salutes* Aye-aye!
9. Music. Ooh, this one's easy! I love all music. Next?
10. Books. I don't get to read nearly as much as I'd like, and lots of that is because I've been listening to so many audiobooks lately (I listen to 'em while spreadsheeting at work - it's akin to hiding a comic in your history textbook). I'm making a bit of a pathetic attempt to catch up on the classics, but just at the moment my bookshelf revolves around Sherlock Holmes. My lack of reading-fu is a little demoralizing, considering the fact that both of my parents are librarians.
11. Travel. I'm currently working out the particulars of a solo February trip to San Francisco. Due to a series of lucky coincidences and all sorts of neat stuff (including winning all-expenses paid trips, which led to lots of amusing responses: "I won? Um. Sorry, you must have made a mistake." *hangs up* "Wait, what?"), I've visited seven countries (Canada, the States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, for those of you keeping track at home). I love travelling and wish I could do more of it. I speak fluent French and am working on adopting an Alsacian accent. Heehee. I also know enough conversational Japanese to get by, and I can proclaim myself to be a white sock in German (I always make sure I learn the useful phrases first). I can read Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese without too much trouble, but if I tried to speak it? Things would explode.
12. Me. I'm a bit of the previous eleven sections, and probably a lot more besides. I'm a heckuva introvert; often my sorry-must-flee-and-recharge-social-batteries responses are construed as rudeness or general anti-socialness. Which is probably a fair assessment, really, and I don't let it bother me, since people are generally fairly bright and figure it out for themselves. :D I'm actually a pretty average person, though - I get annoyed at my roommates and still love 'em to bits (living with someone in a small condo for two years will do that), get frustrated when stuff doesn't go my way, sometimes just have days when I don't want to get out of bed. But a good 90% of the time, I'm ridiculously cheerful, overly talkative, and obnoxiously optimistic. I also have an extremely high self-opinion that's managed to get me through a lot of tricky things (including high school). Sometimes this manifests as ego, which is fine by me. :D
TV-Announcer Voice: If you'd like to know more about thiseponymous_rose, please study the memes below for the great sekrits of the universe. And all that. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled LJ.
2. School. In September, I'll be starting my third year of an honours degree in atmospheric science, with a definite slant toward violent weather forecasting and cloud physics. My coursework over the last two years has been positively gruelling, but I've adored every minute of it (yes, even all that moaning and groaning about Mechanics!). I take courses in atmospheric fluid dynamics, environmental conservation science and risk management, calculus and differential equations, chemistry, physical geography, geology, statistics, mechanics, computer programming, electronics, and, occasionally, music. I am a total and complete geek. I love what I study, so I study what I love. My medium-term plans include taking sixteen months beginning next May to do an internship as a forecaster at the severe weather station in my province, then coming back for my last year and going from there to my Master's and Doctorate. I'm still not sure whether I want to go in for forecasting or academia, so I'm making sure I get a taste of both.
3. Piano. I've played for twelve years and managed to get the RCM Grade 10 certification, which really just means that I've spent a long time playing piano. Now I play for fun, and do a little work on the side as an accompanist and teacher where needed. Occasionally, someone will rope me into doing a concert; I complain and complain about performing, but secretly love it to bits. I'm not remarkably good, but I adore playing and am trying to work my way through the vast majority of the well-known piano repertoire before the age of twenty. :D I have weird goals. I'm always fangirling Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but I'll have much shorter-lived crushes on other bits of music from time to time (currently? Fauré and Clementi!).
4. Violin. I've played for a bit less than two months, which is about as painful as it sounds. But it's fun, and I'm learning slowly but surely. I can play, um, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in five keys. So there.
5. Fencing. I've been fencing for seven years (minus two years due to knee surgery, I guess) - I fence épée and am really pretty inept at the other weapons. Currently, I'm fencing with a sort of rebel group of épéeists who aren't affiliated with any club, most of whom are international-level competitors, which is intimidating as all-get-out. Apart from the couple hours of walking to and from work/school each day, this is my best source of exercise. I'm still not sure whether I'm ready to begin fencing competitively again, or whether I want to try and renew my coaching certification (trying to maintain authority over a dozen fourteen-year-old boys with swords was fun and all, but you know. Not really.).
6. Fandom. This is a big one - I'm generally pretty obsessive about my fandoms. That said, I definitely don't want to take 'em too seriously! I'm a great fan of crack!fic, silly crossovers, and general insanity and off-the-wall theories. I'm also extremely interested in internet culture (if I were to write a book on the topic, I'd call it "The Internet r srs business"), and fandom plays a big part of it. In general, I ship everyone/everyone (or, if I'm feeling adventurous, everyone/everyone/everyone/the kitchen sink), so long as it's written well. I read a fair bit of fanfiction, and have been known to leave long and unnecessarily rambly reviews for the horrified authors. *cough* I'm not above squeeing over stuff I like and pouting over stuff I didn't, but I'm also more than willing to get into ridiculously in-depth discussions about anything and nothing. I tend to be more of a lurker than anything else when it comes to big fandom-related groups (the exception being Holmesian.net). So there you go!
7. Doctor Who. Relatively recent discovery, thanks to
imsanehonest's ebil corrupting influence! *dramatic chord* The show runs on the power of absolute, unabashed crack (I challenge anyone to try and explain the show to a non-viewer and still sound sane at the end of it) and still manages to be all kinds of awesome. My journal is, at the moment, pretty dang DW-themed. :D Eccleston is my favourite Doctor, followed closely by, and this surprised even me, McGann. I'm absolutely in love with the Big Finish audios (favourites are, I think, "Seasons of Fear" (Cornell, fun time-travel, and wicked-awesome continuity/foreshadowing!), "The Chimes of Midnight" (freaky/clever Christmas piece), and "Caerdroia" (because I'm a sucker for the silly that is Tigger!Doctor and the creepy that is Eeyore!Doctor)). Current DW-related projects include an epic bit of fanfiction featuring Rose and the Tenth Doctor and a ficathon entry, neither of which will see the light of day until I get around to working on them some more. Heehee.8. Sherlock Holmes. I have a Basil Rathbone calendar over my bed. That explains a lot, I think. I'm also a great fan of Brett, but my absolute favourite Holmes and Watson have to be Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. I'm a nut for radio plays (comes of helping my Dad fiddle away with his shortwave when I was teensy) in general and have a fairly substantial collection of public-domain OTR that I'm hoping to upload shortly for the good people at Holmesian.net. Current Holmesian projects include about a dozen half-written stories that might actually be fairly good if I whittle away at them long enough, and a Hiatus-era fic that I've been told to write. *salutes* Aye-aye!
9. Music. Ooh, this one's easy! I love all music. Next?
10. Books. I don't get to read nearly as much as I'd like, and lots of that is because I've been listening to so many audiobooks lately (I listen to 'em while spreadsheeting at work - it's akin to hiding a comic in your history textbook). I'm making a bit of a pathetic attempt to catch up on the classics, but just at the moment my bookshelf revolves around Sherlock Holmes. My lack of reading-fu is a little demoralizing, considering the fact that both of my parents are librarians.
11. Travel. I'm currently working out the particulars of a solo February trip to San Francisco. Due to a series of lucky coincidences and all sorts of neat stuff (including winning all-expenses paid trips, which led to lots of amusing responses: "I won? Um. Sorry, you must have made a mistake." *hangs up* "Wait, what?"), I've visited seven countries (Canada, the States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, for those of you keeping track at home). I love travelling and wish I could do more of it. I speak fluent French and am working on adopting an Alsacian accent. Heehee. I also know enough conversational Japanese to get by, and I can proclaim myself to be a white sock in German (I always make sure I learn the useful phrases first). I can read Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese without too much trouble, but if I tried to speak it? Things would explode.
12. Me. I'm a bit of the previous eleven sections, and probably a lot more besides. I'm a heckuva introvert; often my sorry-must-flee-and-recharge-social-batteries responses are construed as rudeness or general anti-socialness. Which is probably a fair assessment, really, and I don't let it bother me, since people are generally fairly bright and figure it out for themselves. :D I'm actually a pretty average person, though - I get annoyed at my roommates and still love 'em to bits (living with someone in a small condo for two years will do that), get frustrated when stuff doesn't go my way, sometimes just have days when I don't want to get out of bed. But a good 90% of the time, I'm ridiculously cheerful, overly talkative, and obnoxiously optimistic. I also have an extremely high self-opinion that's managed to get me through a lot of tricky things (including high school). Sometimes this manifests as ego, which is fine by me. :D
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eponymous_rose, please study the memes below for the great sekrits of the universe. And all that. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled LJ.(Gosh, this post was easy to tag. :D)
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Date: 2007-07-12 03:58 pm (UTC)And also... Gosh...
*bows before the awesome and accomplished eponymous_rose of doome*
We are not worthy. :)
Umm... and you have a fob watch too, I seem to remember.
*peers suspiciously*
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Date: 2007-07-12 04:03 pm (UTC)And,um, fob watch? Can't recall ever having mentioned one. *whistles innocently*
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Date: 2007-07-12 05:19 pm (UTC)I relate entirely to your obsessiveness about fandoms...I find the fandom internet communities endlessly fascinating. You might like the community
I'm seriously excited about your OTR. I'm crazy about Holmes, which you know. I'm going to that Gillette to Brett II, and I'm probably going to drive everybody crazy before it happens. haha.
Doctor Who looks fabulously cracked out...I'd love to watch it. I should get the dvds because I have no idea where to begin. I saw about 5 minutes of an episode on tv, and while I did think "This is kind of awesome", I was totally lost. I'm still trying to figure out what the old tv shows/movies have to do with the new ones. I know Peter Cushing (who I adore and worship) was in a couple of old movies but they look like they have absolutely nothing to do with these new ones. Plus, these two new Doctors are pretty nice-looking too. (I think either of them would make a decent young Holmes! aah)
wow that was a long comment. Sorry.
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Date: 2007-07-12 05:35 pm (UTC)See? Doing it now. No apologies necessary. :D
I desperately need to practice my French a bit more - I had thirteen years of total immersion in school, but now all my courses are in English and I live in what is quite possibly the most Anglophone province in the country. *grumbles*
Ooh, I'll take a look at that community - thanks for the recommendation! And I know the feeling when interest a fandom wanes - but it's often pretty temporary; you could well come back to it in a few years with tons of new ideas!
I'm also extremely jealous about the Gillette to Brett II thing! :D Seems we never have any good conventions hereabouts. *shakes fist* It's not that far North!
Ooh, a possible Doctor Who convert? I was confused as all-get-out about the whole thing too, actually, until a friend pointed me in the right direction. Basically, the show was on the air from 1963 until the eighties, when it was cancelled. There was a TV movie (which was really pretty awful) in 1996, but apart from that the show remained on hiatus until they resurrected it in 2005. The whole idea of this "New Who" is to introduce a new generation to Doctor Who - as a result, while it makes a bunch of references to the old series, it stands alone pretty dang well. So the first season of the new series is probably a good place to start (it's where I started). From there, you can keep watching the new series (which I did), or go back and find some of the earlier episodes (which I did as well). There are also audiobooks (so much love!) and novels aplenty, but their canonicity is much-disputed. :D (The Cushing movies are generally considered as a sort of movie-fanfiction, I guess; that is to say, non-canonical. I know virtually nothing about 'em, though.)
(And, if you're not averse to watching stuff on the computer, this site (http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/26) has some useful links. *wink*)
Okay, done advertising. :D
(And Eccleston or Tennant as Holmes? Excellent mental picture! I think I'd have a total geek-out.)
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Date: 2007-07-12 11:00 pm (UTC)Although, of course, at this point you're far more Who-savvy than I. Really, I don't think I can rightfully claim credit here...
Not to say that I'm not going to take the credit anyway, of course. *grin*
Also: Do you ever get confused, with all of those languages bumping about in your brain? *gasp* Is there A Language War going on?!?! Just so you know, I'm going to write a book/make a movie/comic about the epic conflict that's going on in your head between these languages. I'll make sure you get a portion of the royalties. *patpat*
I've no logical reason to use this icon other than to show off the cute. So: *point* Look at the cute!
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:11 am (UTC)Ooh, an epic Language War, complete with merchandise? Will there be action figures? Inquiring minds want to know!
It's horribly awkward when I get my languages mixed up. Counting's the worst, since I can do that in more languages than anything else. "Um. One. Deux. San. Vier. No, wait. What?"
Which is why it's much easier to count to ten using visual aids. Like, say, the Doctor. Heeheehee.
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:42 am (UTC)... Which, you know. Languages can so do.
RE counting: I like! See, we should be put in charge of young minds. Let them learn how to count the proper (and vastly more entertaining) way. *nodnod*
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:58 am (UTC)And it would be {picture of Tom Baker} + {picture of Peter Davison} + {picture of Sylvester McCoy} / {picture of Patrick Troughton} = {picture of Paul McGann}. Or something. Heehee.
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Date: 2007-07-13 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
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