please feel free to introduce yourselves to each other in comments!

[kaberett]

9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?

I am grumpily unconvinced by this one - I think public introductions are incredibly high-pressure and generally a rubbish thing to do to people - and even a list of people I think are awesome and worth subscribing to inevitably means I will miss people off. SO INSTEAD let us have a tiny subscription meme: introduce yourself in one alliterative sentence (if you feel like playing a game, and don't bother with the alliteration if you don't) and then feel free to expand (minus the alliteration) in conversation. I like it when you lot talk!

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I am teeth-grinding and nightmaring and insomnia-ing. Slightly to my surprise, this appears to be the form my pre-period mood crash is taking this month; "surprise" because I'm not used to it being this mild. On the downside, this means that back-of-enveloping it, I'm... kind of due to be in pain and misery during Finals, but hey, what can you do, if I'm lucky stress and the vagaries of a slightly irregular cycle will see me through, and if not I shall just take LOTS OF DRUGS.

Comments

[cxcvi]

Quite quiet; questions?

[kaberett]

this is a really endearing summary. ♥

[pipisafoat]

(pretty sure my answer to that question would have been "yes! now everybody should talk to try to figure out who it is they might want to meet.")

precocious pip plays poker poorly! (it is the only alliterative sentence I can come up with on my way out the door to an exam so PLEASE EXCUSE. while true (though I reckon I can't quite claim precocious anymore), the sentence is unrepresentative of me.)

[kaberett]

I really love this sentence, and it is such a good summary of my perception of your general attitude, in all the best ways ♥

[pipisafoat]

You perceive me as being cheerfully horrid at poker? O_o

[kaberett]

ON A META LEVEL.

[pipisafoat]

*shrug* it's all accurate! Merely unexpected.

[kaberett]

By which I mean wryly self-analytical and occasionally poking fun at it. IN PART. That is not all of you.

[rmc28]

Rachel runs, reads & readily wrangles code, coursework & kids.

[alexseanchai]

Whatcha study? I'm thisclose to graduating with my associate's in paralegal from the local community college, finally, and then I'm leaping straight into an economics major and women's studies minor (though I'd like to change to a double major) doing distance education at Oregon State University.

[rmc28]

Oho, another student! I'm doing a BA in Business Studies from the Open University. On my current course plan, I'll officially specialise in Economics, but will have a strong specialism in Accounting too.

I started in September 2011 & should finish either June 2016 or June 2017, depending on whether I can overlap a couple of courses or not. It's distance learning, so I can fit it around work and children.

Economics and Women's Studies sounds like an excellent combination, like you might find some really interesting insights from applying knowledge from one to the other. E.g. the only Economics course I've done so far (Personal Finance) had some really interesting stuff on the effect of children on lifetime income of women.

[alexseanchai]

Feminist economics fascinates me and I have vague ideas of writing a feminist economics 101 textbook. Sometime in the distant future when I have at least as good a grasp on economics as I do on feminism.

I took accounting courses when I was still a business major. So far it's only been applicable to my choice of personal finance software--GnuCash only works if one's already got the hang of double-entry bookkeeping.

[pipisafoat]

Oregon State also wants me to distance-ed with them when I graduate from my associate's in November! Actually, they seem to want me now. Regardless of graduation status. And I mean, they're on my list of possibilities when I finish my BA (which will happen! just not yet; require job for money for tuition first), so I guess their marketing is effective!

[kaberett]

Nice sentence. :D

(Rachel is responsible for me getting into Vorkosigan, and is an awesome feminist and ally and activist and parent, and I am hugely delighted to know her.)

[alexseanchai]

I'm not good at alliteration, but I can do poetry:

There's the poet and the beader and the third-wave feminist,
And the queer white atheist—I've got zir on the list!
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist—
I don't think ze'd be missed—I'm sure ze'd not be missed!

(Swiped from my alexconall profile with pronouns edited to account for this will not be seen by my meatspace folks, because I r lazy.)

[kaberett]

HAVE I TOLD YOU RECENTLY HOW MUCH I LIKE THIS ONE

[alexseanchai]

:-D

Though I don't know as I can actually count myself a novelist. I think my three longest writings clock in at 85K, 20K, and 8K words respectively, and they're all fanfiction.

[shortcipher]

Chris - canorous cantabrigian, creates code, currently copious calendar clashes (cause: cool chaotic queer quasi-choir collective), craves caffeine, cocoa, cuddles.

[forthwritten]

Apprentice academic, scholar errant, genderqueer feminist, occasional activist.

[alexseanchai]

Ooh, I like you. Note to self, have a look at your journal once home where DW is not blocked.

Whatcha study?

[forthwritten]

I'm in the liminal stage between submitting my PhD thesis and having my viva. My background is in linguistics but my PhD involves a weird mixture of linguistics, women's history, early 20th century British political history and stuff about protest movements.

I keep most things locked because jobs and teaching and stuff; let me know if you'd like access.

[alexseanchai]

linguistics, women's history, early 20th century British political history and stuff about protest movements

Ooo that sounds fascinating! I'm trying to study feminist economics, which is hard when no one's come up with so much as an introductory text in the subject that I know of, so I'm doing economics and women's studies and hoping to piece things together.

[kaberett]

This is a lovely, lovely summary, and I keep meaning to explore the concept of apprenticeship in the context of academia more. ♥

[forthwritten]

Thank you.

I have a lot of thoughts on my own particular apprenticeship and my relationship with my supervisor, but still mulling it over.

[swaldman]

Simon the super-evolved simian sits in Scotland and studies the sustainable sequestration of satellite-forced streams.

(which means I work on tidal energy. I couldn't think of any better Ss.)

[pipisafoat]

That is super-impressive! I don't think I could alliteratively describe my field. (though it's an interesting challenge.)

[cxcvi]

How about sea swaying?

Also, having met you twice now, I can hear these words in your voice...

[noldo]

Not notable, not nocturnal, not Norwich.

[kaberett]

face wtf are you

i say this with all the affection in the world

[ghoti]

Fantastic fish, forensics, fiber, fearful, frizzy, friendly, funny, foul-mouthed, frantic. Or something. >.

[azurelunatic]

Azz - administratively amazing, anti-spam amazon, awash in additional attention; amusing.

[emperor]

Cyclist (committed!), coffee-consumer, C coder, crappy 'cellist, Coventry Cathedral choral clerk, climber, Christian (catholic, CofE), cited, ceasing cow-counting. Career-change: commencing (continuing?!?) Cambridge computing. Clear?

[evilsusan]

Certainly surly, somewhat slovenly, silently silly.

[batrachian]

Technical, tangential, thoughtful, thorough, tall.

Probably other words, too, but I's not exactly a morning person, and alliteration is not one of the forms of wordplay that I'm gifted with. Alas. :(