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[geekchick]

Today is Setting Orange, day 65 in the season of Chaos, 3168.

Lots of random thoughts, no particular order.

Wonder why when I mention that I'm going to San Diego for work, more than one person has now asked me if I'm moving there? Must be something about my drooling about the prospect of being paid to go someplace warm and sunny, even if it is only for a few days (Saturday - Wednesday). I was trying to figure out a way to get a stopover in Denver, but that didn't happen. (Sorry, P. ;) ) Charlotte it is.

I wonder if I've been a little bit too forthright in some email exchanges I've been having lately. Inside voice and outside voice, need to remember which one I should be using at any given time.

I find tsunamis endlessly fascinating, I'm not sure why. The thought of a 55-foot wave coming in my direction is quite terrifying. The Discovery Channel empire indulges me by showing various "Raging Planet/When Nature Attacks/America's Funniest Natural Disasters" type shows on a regular basis, although the content after seeing the first two is starting to get repetitive. Maybe it's just burnout, but I think that studying tsunamis sounds much more interesting right now than what I'm doing. In my next life, I want to be a geophysicist. (How often do you hear someone say that? ;) )

!@#$, I was going to watch "The West Wing" and just realized I've missed half of it. I really want a Tivo.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just burnout, but I think that studying tsunamis sounds much more interesting right now than what I'm doing. In my next life, I want to be a geophysicist. (How often do you hear someone say that?)

Why wait until your next life? (grin) I'm in complete agreement with you. Except right now I'm studying impact craters instead of tsunamis. After getting a Ph.D. in robotics, I decided that geophysics sounded like more fun, so went back to school part-time for a couple of years to get another degree. Now I spend part of my time on AI and robotics, part of my time on impact craters, and sometimes projects which combine both (see userpic). Like data mining in large subsurface-imaging datasets... (smile)

Volcanology also sounds like fun...

[geekchick]

Why wait until your next life? (grin)

Because I've never in my life taken a single physics class, so I'm kind of starting from way behind. ;) Yeah, it's a lame excuse, I know that. Probably for the same reason I haven't gone back to school for anything yet, not being sure that I'm committed enough to see it through.

Volcanology also sounds like fun...

*grin* Indeed! That's another thing that I'd like to be able to geek about.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It's easier to be committed to see it through if it is fun :-). A different problem is when one's regular job and other activities become starved of time and energy because the new area is more interesting.

Physics? Well, arguably geologists use minimal actual physics, it is close to biology in that way... much more hands-on empirical. Identification of specimens and mapping. Math is more of a barrier -- but if you've had calculus and trig and are OK with differential equations, then you could go into geology (and with some extra work, pick up enough physics to go into geophysics).

[geekchick]

if you've had calculus and trig and are OK with differential equations

Ah, see that's the real problem. I'm okay with differential equations so long as they stay far away from me. *grin* Math is, shall we say, not exactly my strong point; anything above algebra II took a huge amount of effort on my part to get through. That's a good part of the reason why I didn't take any more than an introductory geology class from the physics department in college, everything else required a couple semesters of calculus prerequisite.
So maybe in my next life I'll come back as someone with some math skills and then I'll be all set. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Well, one can still enjoy parts of it now (rock identification, measuring strata, the whole detective-story aspect) without being able to stack waveforms from seismic tests. Lots of above-ground geology uses relative little mathematical manipulation.

And I'm still a fan of going back to school in a second "fun" field ;-).

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Kind of the same reasons I've never gone into archaeology, zoology or museum curatorial/conservation - I never, ever thrived in the basic biology/chemistry classes I took.

You never know though; sometimes universities etc. do take volunteers - maybe somewhere local would offer an opportunity.

[geekchick]

Like data mining in large subsurface-imaging datasets...

*swoon* ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

*blush* ;-)

Actually, mactavish, who also posts on alt.poly, is also a geology and geophysics fan...

[wolfy.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I've been a little bit too forthright in some email exchanges

So why don't you send me one and tell me what's up?

[geminigirl]

Download West Wing and watch it on the computer-M. did that a while ago, when we missed an episode-I have no idea where he got it from though...

[geekchick]

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns up on Limewire soonish, not a bad plan.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

nice pic :)

[geekchick]

Why thank you. =)

[points.livejournal.com]

Ah well.. I'm sure I'll survive.

[geekchick]

You will? Hrmph. ;-P (I think this might be around the time you're going to be elsewhere anyway, now that I think about it.)

[nj-kid.livejournal.com]

who doesn't want a tivo...

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Tivos rule. Wish I had one, buyt the budgetary situation precludes me getitng one for quite some time.

At any rate, I had a dream last night where I went back to high school. I blame you, gc. :) (Well, not too much. It's been a recurring thing for me, but this was the first time in months that I had it.)

[geekchick]

It's always my fault. I am the root of all evil. *grin*