Tying Up Loose Ends!
I've been energetic in my titles lately, eh? ;)
Before I begin my actual entry, I just wanted to put up another important note regarding the possible NYC trip on Thursday.
*I* will probably not be able to go. :x
It comes down to a purely financial matter. There’s a good chance my car needs a new tire, and thus the money I’d be spending to go to NY would definitely be needed for that instead. Although I would LOVE to go to the CD signing, I can always try waiting at the stage door when my Mom and I go in early July. Sure, there’s still a chance I won’t meet Jonathan that way, but if I *do* I’ll have my Assassins playbill good and ready, haha.
There is still a tiny chance that I’ll still want to go this week, but the odds are looking less and less likely. My friend Matt expressed interest in going this morning, as did a girl I work with, so I’ll let you both know my final decision tomorrow night. Promise.
Moving right along. . .
Travis, thank you for being the first person to agree with me on the whole “I think history is wicked boring; clearly I should major in it!” thing, haha. I actually found this attitude *most* prevalent in my 400-level classes with Dr. Sterne, which was a bit perplexing. You’d be surprised how many people had no actual interest in their topics—at all. I mean, yes, I was lucky because I knew from Day 1 that I was gonna do anarchism but even if the theme of the class was something I didn’t know much about, like say the Civil War, I’d at least try to find a topic that interested me somewhat. I just imagine that gnawing one’s foot off would be more fun than writing a 30+ page paper research paper about a subject you don’t even like. ::shrug:: oh well, their loss I guess.
$11.50 minimum wage? Hell, I’d be more than happy with that! If anybody shot you over proposing something like that, I promise I wouldn’t have anything to do with it, haha.
When I went to school in Tennessee, there was student group there that was constantly active on campus, fighting to make sure all the campus janitors, cooks, etc. were making a living wage—which of course is more than minimum wage. I didn’t really “get” what they were going on about at the time, but now that I’m living it (somewhat? Heh) I can’t imagine how anyone could think it’s *not* important.
I love to ramble, don’t I? ^___^
And yeah. It seems that graduate school and/or teaching is every history major’s game plan. I’m not big on the teaching idea, but I’ve considered grad school—either for straight-up History, Museum Studies or even Historical Preservation. That’s IF I decide I definitely want to have a career in the field of history. Part of my problem is I have a billion and one interests, so it’s hard for me to focus on any particular one as a long-term plan. Like today, I’d be perfectly happy just continuing to learn about history as a hobby and raise sheep full time, haha. Okay, so that will probably never happen, but it’s an idea. ^__^ I don’t know, I always feel like everyone else seems to know *exactly* what they’re doing after graduation, but I guess realistically that’s not the case.
So anyway, thanks for reading/responding and speaking of all this history stuff, hope your research and everything’s going well. Hooray for radical social movements! Haha
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I actually have a typical entry to post too, so I’m gonna take a short break and then be back to write some more.
Before I begin my actual entry, I just wanted to put up another important note regarding the possible NYC trip on Thursday.
*I* will probably not be able to go. :x
It comes down to a purely financial matter. There’s a good chance my car needs a new tire, and thus the money I’d be spending to go to NY would definitely be needed for that instead. Although I would LOVE to go to the CD signing, I can always try waiting at the stage door when my Mom and I go in early July. Sure, there’s still a chance I won’t meet Jonathan that way, but if I *do* I’ll have my Assassins playbill good and ready, haha.
There is still a tiny chance that I’ll still want to go this week, but the odds are looking less and less likely. My friend Matt expressed interest in going this morning, as did a girl I work with, so I’ll let you both know my final decision tomorrow night. Promise.
Moving right along. . .
Travis, thank you for being the first person to agree with me on the whole “I think history is wicked boring; clearly I should major in it!” thing, haha. I actually found this attitude *most* prevalent in my 400-level classes with Dr. Sterne, which was a bit perplexing. You’d be surprised how many people had no actual interest in their topics—at all. I mean, yes, I was lucky because I knew from Day 1 that I was gonna do anarchism but even if the theme of the class was something I didn’t know much about, like say the Civil War, I’d at least try to find a topic that interested me somewhat. I just imagine that gnawing one’s foot off would be more fun than writing a 30+ page paper research paper about a subject you don’t even like. ::shrug:: oh well, their loss I guess.
$11.50 minimum wage? Hell, I’d be more than happy with that! If anybody shot you over proposing something like that, I promise I wouldn’t have anything to do with it, haha.
When I went to school in Tennessee, there was student group there that was constantly active on campus, fighting to make sure all the campus janitors, cooks, etc. were making a living wage—which of course is more than minimum wage. I didn’t really “get” what they were going on about at the time, but now that I’m living it (somewhat? Heh) I can’t imagine how anyone could think it’s *not* important.
I love to ramble, don’t I? ^___^
And yeah. It seems that graduate school and/or teaching is every history major’s game plan. I’m not big on the teaching idea, but I’ve considered grad school—either for straight-up History, Museum Studies or even Historical Preservation. That’s IF I decide I definitely want to have a career in the field of history. Part of my problem is I have a billion and one interests, so it’s hard for me to focus on any particular one as a long-term plan. Like today, I’d be perfectly happy just continuing to learn about history as a hobby and raise sheep full time, haha. Okay, so that will probably never happen, but it’s an idea. ^__^ I don’t know, I always feel like everyone else seems to know *exactly* what they’re doing after graduation, but I guess realistically that’s not the case.
So anyway, thanks for reading/responding and speaking of all this history stuff, hope your research and everything’s going well. Hooray for radical social movements! Haha
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I actually have a typical entry to post too, so I’m gonna take a short break and then be back to write some more.
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