Teacup Cafe XXII - Page 42

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 03:59 PM

I love history. *sigh* If I could get a job in a museum... we have many museums in my city, but the students from History-departement do their internships there usually. Not much chance for others.

Well, good luck with saving up money and trying to get the job. *thumbs up*
*sits back in a chair* Ahh~. Weekend! Tomorrow we're going out college hunting again. Only this time I will participate as well, 'cause I might have to give up on Switzerland.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 04:01 PM

That stinks. (I already got the job, BTW) I had to give up my dream college to, but now I have a new one, and i might just make that one. Good luck college hunting.

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 04:50 PM

Thanks, I'll need it. So many things I like! Sometimes being a generalist sucks.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 04:52 PM

I wouldnt know.

Sometimes specialization sucks too.

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 04:56 PM

Yeah, I've been pretty much told that with Japanese as specialism you can't do anything, besides becoming a scholar on Japanese stuff that is... >_<
Though I most certainly do not regret studying Japanese, I am starting to regret not thinking of the careerpossibilities more. Still, my career counselor said I still have some options, but I will probably have to study for 2 to 3 more years doing something completely new.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 04:58 PM

Yuck. Why not look at, like professorship of some kind in Japanese studies?

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 05:16 PM

They did ask me to do that actually because my specialism (Russo-Japanese War) is very rare. It would be fun for five years perhaps and it would give me reason to study Russian while getting funded, but after five years I would get bored. Not enough contact with other people and a lot of pressure to produce a certain amount of research per year, teach a certain amount of hours a year AND it would take a long time before I actually get to be a professor... Researching is fun, but not as a job.

Not for me anyway.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 05:19 PM

For me it is, but it is a different kind of research. Animal behavior is more dynamic than history (in that it is interactive and tangible, whereas only history's effects are). That's not knocking on history, it's just two different things.

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 05:28 PM

Yeah, I guess it is different. I also think that there are more scholars in your field then in mine so that makes it easier to discuss things or organize debates etc.
I do look at all historic perspectives (political, economincal, sociological, etc.) from that period, but it is only a 10 to 15 year period (if I really stretch it the war itself was in 1904-05), so there aren't many scholars in this field. Plus many people do not consider it an important period or war (which is so not true, it had world impact!) so... Try getting funding for that.

EDIT: Oops, too much info maybe.

Well, just ignore it then. Should you be interested, you know where to find me.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 05:46 PM

I can see why it would be overlooked. It is what could be termed as over-specialized. You're locked in on a very specific peice of a field. Not that that is a bad thing, it is just really confining, but I see what you mean.

**Nurvingiel** · 02-08-2008, 05:49 PM

Wait a minute, Russia and Japan were at war!? When was this!?

That is almost as shocking as this calculation I made...

The USA has a 9.2 trillion dollar debt. It's such a vast number I have difficulty imagining it. I imagine that George "the internets" Bush has a hard time with this number too.

I will translate the debt into a more tangible currency: high-end Italian sports cars. $9'243'570'775'885.91 could be used to buy 28'010'820 Lamborghini Murciélagos. That's over 28 million of these incredible machines, which cost $330'000 US.

The Murciélago is 4.58m in length. If valets carefully parked the cars with only 42 cm separating each one, they would form a line 168'065 km in length. That's 104'431 miles.

The distance between Seattle, WA and Miami, FL is about 3300 miles.

With the amount of money in the US national debt, you could buy enough Lamborghini Murciélagos to park, in an unbroken line, from Seattle to Miami 31 times.

Now that 9.2 trillion seems a little more real to me, I officially declare George W. Bush the worst President of the United States ever.

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 06:05 PM

Wow Nurv! That's some calculating there! Made me wonder how much the Netherlands are in debt.
Oh, and yeah, they were at war 2 times actually, in 1904-05 and in WWII allthough the last one wasn't really a war perhaps, depending on how you define war.

EDIT: our tiny country has a public debt of 219 billion Euro... a nice list o_O

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 06:07 PM

Crap.....I'm movin'....

Grey_Wolf · 02-08-2008, 06:18 PM

*the Clinging Monster and his Sister the Clutching Monster runs after Nautie - flinging out their sticky tentacles after him*

"Daddy, our daddy!" *they shriek*

**Mari** · 02-08-2008, 06:21 PM

Babies!

Grey_Wolf · 02-08-2008, 06:22 PM

indeed -

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 06:26 PM

Verily.

C'mon, kids. Can I not have one minute?

Grey_Wolf · 02-08-2008, 06:39 PM

"Of course, you, daddy" says Tm and Cltm unisonly.

Nautipus · 02-08-2008, 07:08 PM

I love watching my little fish tank...it's so soothing. I have a yellowhead jawfish in it:

I love him! He's so fun to just watch.

The last sane person · 02-08-2008, 07:11 PM

*sprawls by the lounge with Leroy as a furry hotwater bottle*

Anicetos is what kinda creature again? Aside from the fluffy type, I mean.

02-08-2008, 03:59 PM	#821
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I love history. sigh If I could get a job in a museum... we have many museums in my city, but the students from History-departement do their internships there usually. Not much chance for others. Well, good luck with saving up money and trying to get the job. thumbs up sits back in a chair Ahh~. Weekend! Tomorrow we're going out college hunting again. Only this time I will participate as well, 'cause I might have to give up on Switzerland. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-08-2008, 04:01 PM	#822
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	That stinks. (I already got the job, BTW) I had to give up my dream college to, but now I have a new one, and i might just make that one. Good luck college hunting. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 04:50 PM	#823
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Thanks, I'll need it. So many things I like! Sometimes being a generalist sucks. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-08-2008, 04:52 PM	#824
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	I wouldnt know. Sometimes specialization sucks too. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 04:56 PM	#825
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Yeah, I've been pretty much told that with Japanese as specialism you can't do anything, besides becoming a scholar on Japanese stuff that is... >_< Though I most certainly do not regret studying Japanese, I am starting to regret not thinking of the careerpossibilities more. Still, my career counselor said I still have some options, but I will probably have to study for 2 to 3 more years doing something completely new. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-08-2008, 04:58 PM	#826
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	Yuck. Why not look at, like professorship of some kind in Japanese studies? __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 05:16 PM	#827
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	They did ask me to do that actually because my specialism (Russo-Japanese War) is very rare. It would be fun for five years perhaps and it would give me reason to study Russian while getting funded, but after five years I would get bored. Not enough contact with other people and a lot of pressure to produce a certain amount of research per year, teach a certain amount of hours a year AND it would take a long time before I actually get to be a professor... Researching is fun, but not as a job. Not for me anyway. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-08-2008, 05:19 PM	#828
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	For me it is, but it is a different kind of research. Animal behavior is more dynamic than history (in that it is interactive and tangible, whereas only history's effects are). That's not knocking on history, it's just two different things. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 05:28 PM	#829
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Yeah, I guess it is different. I also think that there are more scholars in your field then in mine so that makes it easier to discuss things or organize debates etc. I do look at all historic perspectives (political, economincal, sociological, etc.) from that period, but it is only a 10 to 15 year period (if I really stretch it the war itself was in 1904-05), so there aren't many scholars in this field. Plus many people do not consider it an important period or war (which is so not true, it had world impact!) so... Try getting funding for that. EDIT: Oops, too much info maybe. Well, just ignore it then. Should you be interested, you know where to find me. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"... Last edited by Mari : 02-08-2008 at 05:38 PM.

02-08-2008, 05:46 PM	#830
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	I can see why it would be overlooked. It is what could be termed as over-specialized. You're locked in on a very specific peice of a field. Not that that is a bad thing, it is just really confining, but I see what you mean. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 06:05 PM	#832
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Wow Nurv! That's some calculating there! Made me wonder how much the Netherlands are in debt. Oh, and yeah, they were at war 2 times actually, in 1904-05 and in WWII allthough the last one wasn't really a war perhaps, depending on how you define war. EDIT: our tiny country has a public debt of 219 billion Euro... a nice list o_O __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"... Last edited by Mari : 02-08-2008 at 06:09 PM.

02-08-2008, 06:07 PM	#833
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	Crap.....I'm movin'.... __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 06:18 PM	#834
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	the Clinging Monster and his Sister the Clutching Monster runs after Nautie - flinging out their sticky tentacles after him "Daddy, our daddy!" they shriek

02-08-2008, 06:21 PM	#835
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Babies! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-08-2008, 06:22 PM	#836
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	indeed -

02-08-2008, 06:26 PM	#837
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	Verily. C'mon, kids. Can I not have one minute? __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 06:39 PM	#838
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	"Of course, you, daddy" says Tm and Cltm unisonly.

02-08-2008, 07:08 PM	#839
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	I love watching my little fish tank...it's so soothing. I have a yellowhead jawfish in it: I love him! He's so fun to just watch. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

02-08-2008, 07:11 PM	#840
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	sprawls by the lounge with Leroy as a furry hotwater bottle Anicetos is what kinda creature again? Aside from the fluffy type, I mean. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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