Quick, hide behind the couch, it's another one of those damned memes

[varadia]

Three factors are working against me: 1). I am a sheep, 2). I am at work and horribly bored and not wanting to write my monthly report, and 3). I am insanely curious and already wonder what sorts of questions people might want to ask.

So.

Ask me a question about anything--fandom, real life, music, vegetables, etc--and I will answer you and then ask YOU a question. The whole process could be repeated if anyone wants to keep it up. If this works, by the end we could know each other so well we're sick of each other and have to quit one another for a while.

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[varadia]

I've been reading it in fits and starts since maybe 4rd grade or so. *considers* Maybe 5th. I remember being entirely fascinated by the westward expansion kiddie-version in our social studies class, and being curious about what 'really' happened. I'd just come off a kick of greek myths, so I was curious about how other culture's stories differed (though not, of course, quite in those terms), and I read everything I could get my hands on. Non-fiction accounts, kids books about captives and intermarrying and everything. Most of it was pretty historical stuff--I don't know why I didn't look into modern information about the reservations and what that means and how all that ended up falling out now. Anyway, in amongst all the culture and the history and the ends of things, I read the transcribed/translated versions of stories, and just--at the time I was also fascinated with animals, and the two just mixed together in a lot of places, and I was in heaven.

Yeah. So.

How often to you want to chuck in this version of the life you lead and try something dramatically different? What kind of dramatically different do you tend to go for?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly rarely, actually. I would never say that academia has no downsides, but I honestly cannot think of anything I'd rather be doing than research in the humanities. I don't have the ability to invent characters, so I can't write fiction, and even if my muse were more reliable than she is, I couldn't make a living on poetry. I'm not talented at all in any of the other arts, I don't have any patience for 9-5 office jobs, and I like my students to be approaching adulthood by the time I have to teach them. I suppose I could be a librarian and read books and recommend them to people all day, but I sort of do that anyway. There was a time I considered being a rabbi, but that wasn't really an option* and I'd be awful at pastoral care anyway.

Guess I'm just destined for academia.

*I interrupt this answer to send more prayers for wisdom in the general direction of the currently-convened Committee for Jewish Law and Standards. (http://rymenhild.livejournal.com/71987.html)

How often do you want to try something different?