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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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