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What in fandom does NOT interest me:
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Ahh, what the hell...

Name: Ven
Age: 25
Location: Washington DC
Fandoms: Adam Green, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld/Einsturzende Neubauten, Metalocalypse, LotR, general poetry, various classic literature, Guns n' Roses, Gogol Bordello, Fringe, The Elder Scrolls series, China Mieville, Doctor Steel, Jackson Browne, Tim Minchin, Great Big Sea, Marble Hornets, Looking For Group... a variety of other ecclectic topics... kinda like Harry Potter, too... all kinds of crime dramas too...
What in fandom interests me: Just talking about canon, mostly. I do a little RP, too. Also, fan art.
What in fandom does NOT interest me: Fanfic, slash (I have nothing AGAINST it, I just am not into shipping of any kind)
Major Non-fandom Interests: I'm studying historic preservation in college. I love all the sciences, especially geology and astronomy. I love writing, especially poetry. I like animals... cats and dogs to a point, but I love herps and terrapins and all kinds of wild animals. I like birdwatching. I like music, booze, weird shit...
My LJ Contains Mostly: Long rants I write when my mental STFU function ceases to work around 3 a.m. and later or when I am bored at work interspersed with short PSAs and occasional links to neat shit or videos, mostly of music I like. I cuss a lot, but I am not generally negative or whiny. The closest I ever get to that is ranting grumpily.
Other: I detest Supernatural with seething hatred. I also hate horses. I also will not read every entry you write, nor will I reply to everything I read. FYI.

EDIT: Also:

I have cool socks.

Edited 2010-01-31 03:15 (UTC)

Those ARE awesome socks. Aren't you afraid that they're going to try to take off and attack things with your feet?

Wanna be friends? We share some fandoms and whatnot in common.

I do not care arse-all for comic books, but if that's cool with you, sure!

(And hey, I purposefully failed out of your college! How is the ol' dump these days?)

Why would I care about that?

I only go there for class, but those are relatively okay. The undergrads are complete idiots, though, generally of the variety that make me want to kill myself rather than listen to them for another hour.

The undergrads are complete idiots, though, generally of the variety that make me want to kill myself rather than listen to them for another hour.

OH MY GOD YES. D:!!!!

Every class I took there, with like ONE exception, felt like rehashing high school. And I went there into my sophomore year.

Ugh, srsly!

And, as I'm sure you know, a bunch of them are allowed to take graduate level courses, so I'm stuck working my ass off and taking all these horrific theory courses, and then when I finally get to enjoyable, interesting courses it's filled with those freaking mouthbreathers. *pulls at hair*

deaaaath. Dx

I had like TWO good teachers when I was there in the English department, before I figured out that was not remotely what I wanted to do with my life. One was an older blonde lady who had an adorable daughter and taught Victorian lit. The other was a sort of kooky older guy a bit on the hefty side as I recall who taught Chaucer and Shakespeare. Have you had either of them?

Lol, no, we don't have to take English courses or anything like that.

Oh. What are you taking then?

Lol, so, you very selectively looked at my profile, then?

I'm doing IPCR.

Selective reading... yeah.

You notice I said I stopped doing English as a major?

That'd be one of the reasons. ;D

(Also, I had to google IPCR. >.>)

Edited 2010-01-31 07:20 (UTC)

Lol, so you didn't really pay much attention to much at AU? All I get is acronyms for stuff and endless time spent on the website trying to figure out what the undergrads were talking about haha

I'm glad I didn't go to Georgetown, that sounds like it would've been even worse for me *shudder* Guess it's a crapshoot when you want a DC school.

Well... for one thing, the last time I took classes there was actually like... ergh... jesus... 5 years ago. >.o god I feel old. Also... I didn't go there by design -- I ended up there entirely by accident. After I finished high school, I had NO IDEA what to do -- my school didn't have a college counselor, my parents were working and therefor absent in the process, so I never actually officially applied anywhere. SOOOO I ended up taking classes at AU through that thing they let you do where you can take classes without being accepted at the school. I took about 3 and then applied officially and then got half way through my sophomore year by the time i figured out I was wasting my time and my parents' money and I quit.

So... no, I never knew much about the school outside my own intended major, and I didn't live on campus and never made friends with anyone in any of my classes so I never really heard anyone talk. The most I did was hang around in the coffee shop in the school if business building (I think that's what it was?) and chat with the baristas and read a lot.

...and I smoked pot with some chicks from one of my classes once or twice. It didn't agree with me, thought they were fun.

I found a much, MUCH better place for myself a couple years after quitting AU, studying in a field I can handle at a school I love.

What school/field is that?

Northern Virginia Community College, I'm in my last semester finishing the Historic Preservation certificate program. :3

So, is that where you preserve art and documents or where you preserve historical sites?

Both! And then some! I've been on archaeological digs and stuff, and then I've also done archival work and a little curator work. I'll be starting an internship with the National Park Service soon, which is AWESOME for me. :3

Oh, cool. I was a Classics major for a bit, so I have an appreciation for some of that haha

I WANTED to be a Classics major for a while! Ever since I saw The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard and apprenticed with a Greek painter for a while... I thought that would be just SO great except that I love and NEED science too much to have art be my major in any area...

But Classics really isn't about art. It's actually far more of a history sort of thing. There are lots of Classicists who focus on a scientific aspect, either modern science in dealing with stuff like what you're doing or ancient science.

I would say that it is about art -- as much about art as it is about science, but more about language.

I have my own relationship with language, and with art, but ultimately studying the Classics as a major just wasn't my path. I prefer a different angle on it all, that's all. :3

By the way, do you live near AU? Because if you do, you probably live within a few blocks of where I live during most of the week. ^^

I would definitely not say it's "more about language". There are lots of majors where you need to learn another language to do any work in your subject area, it's more incidental. Someone can major in Latin or Greek, if that's what he wants his focus to be, but there are plenty of Classics majors in plenty of colleges where whether or not you even have to take a language depends on your specific track.

I live relatively close to AU.

Heeeee, you totally probably live within a few blocks of one of my houses, then. ^^

I like the Classics well enough, but I feel I'd be doing their Art a disservice not to take it all the way, which... I just don't want to do.

Dude, you like the same sciences I do. I used to want to be an astrophysicist when I grew up, and now I'm all about geology. Science is fucking awesome.

Those are officially the coolest socks on the earth. And historical preservation is an awesome major.

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