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

[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!