It's late

[shinytoaster]

I'm sure I had something interesting to say, but it's bedtime and my brain is fuddled by tasty Horlicks, so I'll just say this one thing, and that is that I really, really wish I had somehow been involved in the very very hot gay sex that Simon Amstell and John Barrowman had immediately after filming that edition of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Funny how I never developed a crush on him in Doctor Who. And I'm missing Torchwood because I frankly can't be arsed with it.

I secretly want to use my anthropology degree to get funding and spend a year or so studying behaviour on the Tube. Like, ticket barrier etiquette, or sharing of Metros, or under what circumstances you're allowed to sit three abreast on the big seats on the Metropolitan Line - I'm sure there's some hidden rule set in there somewhere. Does that sound too weird? I don't know, I'm just vaguely regretting coming out of university having made nothing out of what should have been an amazing three years, and I'm also very conscious that I spent a lot of that time blowing people off to go and write HP fanfiction, which is just sad beyond belief.

Maybe I should go back.

Comments

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

Hell, yes, to Simon Amstell and John Barrowman. Alas, I am a girl.

[doris.livejournal.com]

I really, really wish I had somehow been involved in the very very hot gay sex that Simon Amstell and John Barrowman had immediately after filming that edition of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Oh GOD, me too!!! *dribble* etc.

xx

[kat99999.livejournal.com]

Well, I would say "come to Southampton!" but I graduate next year so perhaps that might be a case of bad timing :) I think if you feel you want to learn more about you as a person, go back to uni- I've never developed so much in my life :D

of course it would also mean you have two degrees. which is always a bonus! *squishies to death* xxx

[flats.livejournal.com]

Get a job with Kate Fox's lot at the Social Issues Research Centre.

[flats.livejournal.com]

In terms of funding, though, you've basically got to sign up for a PhD if you want any cash. The Economics & Social science Research Council (ESRC funding body) are getting keener on a '1+3' route, where you do a MA in Research (taught methods, plus a longish thesis in prep. for PhD ideas), then the MPhil/PhD bit - but that'd take a minimum of 4 years in total, and the funding for the MA is conditional upon doing the PhD too.

Given the subject area, you might be better off with the social psychologists or the sociologists than the anthropologists - though my LSE anthro education is so traditional that I suspect I underestimate the subject's reach in studying the West a bit.

[macloudt.livejournal.com]

If it's of any help you're not the only one whose anthropology degree is gathering dust. Mine's an 11-year-old double major with sociology and I'm beginning to despair ever doing anything concrete with it. Maybe I should just win the lottery so I can move on to a Master's...

[lucky44.livejournal.com]

I'm also very conscious that I spent a lot of that time blowing people off to go and write HP fanfiction, which is just sad beyond belief.

I have a theory that something like 80% of people who have LiveJournals have spent a significant portion of their lives, at one time or another, obsessed with something on the internet. Mine came in the form of a year and a half (while at uni) on the Dark Angel fan forums forumulating theories and antogonizing rival shipper groups. If they hadn't cancelled the show, it certainly would have been a longer than that.

At least your ff entertained people.

[benjj.livejournal.com]

I missed Buzzcocks

You idea of immediate rabid sex after filming really would have been something to see... or even been a more active participant in!

Barrowman was pretty in The Producers too

I like these little research ideas that potter around for a bit. You can actually talk to strangers on the tube - but only in certain circumstances, generally when it's so cramped you have a very pretty boy wearing not very much jammed up against you. I mean. It would be rude talk, right?