Ga*ked from c_iulius

[darcydodo]

(Am I trying to make up for the couple months of lj absence all in one day????)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Lönnrot tried to adapt the episodes telling about Väinämöinen to the work so that the account would "flow", i. e. so that the events would follow one another without any sense of conflict.
(Religion, Myth, and Folklore in the World's Epics, ed. Lauri Honko)

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[chimerically.livejournal.com]

I'll paste it here instead of in my journal, just 'cuz. :~) I get a particularly meaty sentence (since p. 161 is the second-to-last page in the book):

"Reading the detectors has enabled me to tell a story about high energy physics culture; reading machine-texts enabled me to describe the reproduction of nature, the construction of discovery, and the reproduction of physicists in this community." (from Beamtime and Lifetimes by Sharon Traweek, a fascinating anthropological study of high-energy physicists)

[zdamiana.livejournal.com]

OMG!

I think I have heard of this study - is it the one where she interviews high energy particle physicists in the US and Japan and, and, in answering the question,"Why are there so few women in your field?" she gets these responses:

US: "In this field people need to be decisive and forceful. Women tend to be (are socialized to be) more deferential to others, and thus don't work well in this field."

Japan: "Women are used to being the bosses of their households. In this field it is very important to defer to others and listen carefully to others' ideas. Women are not (are not socialized to be) deferential enough to others, and thus don't work well in this field."

I really need to actually read the study, rather than just frequently paraphrasing a former professor of mine's paraphrasing of it.

How did you come to be reading it?

[darcydodo]

That's hilarious!

How did your concert go?

I'll do mine here, too.

[kamegoro.livejournal.com]

Los enormes ojos de la profesora Trelawney, que parecian faros, giraron hacia la mesa de Slytherin.

-Harry Potter y el misterio del principe

[zdamiana.livejournal.com]

The concert went pretty well. Certainly no disasters. I could have played better in some of the pieces, but it was fine. I had an outside seat this time around, and was concerned that I might screw up the bowings and be very obviously not bowing with the rest of my section, but a violist friend who came to the concert (and knew about my worry) said he was watching my bowing carefully, and didn't notice me screw up. So that was good.

It's pretty weird to begin to feel blase about playing Davies. - Oh, yeah, Davies Symphony Hall - been there, done that. They have good chairs. Yawn.

You'll be interested to know that it sounds like next year's concert will probably include G&S. Our conductor says that the (quite tentative) program will probably be a condensed G&S operetta (either Pirates or one other I don't recall) for one act, and Judy Garland songs for the other act.

I got someone to take some good pictures of the orchestra on stage during the rehearsal this year, and she also got some good pictures of me. I made one of them into my new cello-related icon.

[liv]

It's nice to see you on LJ anyway. I'm going to be disappearing myself soon (I don't know if you saw, but I'm moving to Sweden on Thursday and it's going to take a minimum of a couple of weeks before I have regular internet access, quite possibly longer.) *waves*

[darcydodo]

Promise to let me know what your phone number is as soon as you have one!

[darcydodo]

Excellent. So do they need singers? :)

I'd noticed your new icon -- it's quite nice! (You're not really wearing a skirt, are you?)

I actually could've been singing at Davies this week, if I'd wanted to do Beethoven's 9th. I decided to pass....

[zdamiana.livejournal.com]

Excellent. So do they need singers?

Nope, the SFGMC will play all the roles - including the female ones. It's part of their shtick.

You're not really wearing a skirt, are you?

Well... no... not at the moment. ;)

But I did wear one for the concert. Don't come hoping to see me in the same dress again next year though. Our principal cellist recognized my dress from last year, and gave me a hard time about wearing the same dress two years in a row. So I'll definitely have to find something else to wear next year, and I very much doubt it will involve a skirt.

I actually could've been singing at Davies this week, if I'd wanted to do Beethoven's 9th.

With Philharmonia Baroque? My cello teacher is playing with them for Beethoven's 9th right now. He let me try his gut-strung cello at my lesson last week. It was weird and completely different from metal strings; Very interesting.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

You really are back, eh? *laugh*

Me, I'm glad.

[chimerically.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! My awesome mentor Jean Lave assigned it in her class, explaining that this was one of her favorite ethnographies. She also apparently knows Traweek.

[darcydodo]

Nope, the SFGMC will play all the roles - including the female ones. It's part of their shtick.

Oh, you meant the concert with SFGMC. I hadn't twigged to that (though it makes sense in context) -- I thought you just meant your own orchestra's concert.

Don't come hoping to see me in the same dress again next year though.

Aww, shucks.

and gave me a hard time about wearing the same dress two years in a row.

That's bizarre — I thought thtat orchestra people wore the same concert blacks all the time! I figured it was only if you're a soloist that you get an excuse to buy a new dress.

With Philharmonia Baroque?

I guess. It's for the big anniversary thing.

[darcydodo]

I guess... but it did mean that I got no work done yesterday, so I think I kind of proved my point to myself.

[darcydodo]

Oh, also, can you e-mail me with your new address? (Assuming you have one...!)

[liv]

It's really hard to email because it needs non-Latin-1 characters. Plus, I am not going to be able to move in for a while (long story; basically, I'm living in my landlord's basement for a couple of weeks. I really hope it's only a couple of weeks.) What I will do is when I actually move into the flat and have everything set up, I will make a locked post with all contact details. And I will email you to point you to it, in case you're not reading LJ.

[darcydodo]

Basically, I want to send something to you.