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hunrvogt
1) What is your plan for avoiding the drain on scholarship that can be the modern tenure track positions?
Plan? I’m not even totally convinced yet that I want to do a tenure track position—the thought of settling down in one location and staying there long term is so alien to how I’ve lived my life. Sure, I did spend from age 10 to age 18 living in one house, but that was a fluke compared to the rest of my life, both before and since. Just now doing a series of 1 to 3 year post-doc positions in a variety of locations sounds appealing. But, if I ever find the university in the perfect location, with pretty mountains under foot, located in a community which is large enough to have 24 hour grocery stores, but small enough not to be too crowded, with a good tree-to-people ratio, weather that doesn’t get too hot in the summer, and gets real snow in the winter, which actually sticks on the ground enough to permit cross-country skiing, on campus (and the campus has some woods of its own), a decent SCA group locally, a good group for contra and folk dancing, the mountains are on the correct side of the university, so that my morning commute has the sun at my back, and my evening commute has the sun at my back, then I’ll look into what I can do to stay at that university long term.
2) What region's rocks would you most like to study? Why?
Norway, Scotland, the Alps, the Himalayas, and Antarctica all have pretty metamorphic rocks, which are in pretty mountainous settings, so these all appeal to me as field areas. I love the way the deformation that built the mountains left a record in the compositions of the minerals and the fact that there are microscopic structures that echo the large scale deformation that happened.
3) Could you ever see yourself working in private industry? If yes, in what capacity?
I don’t think so—private industry tends to want to choose which hours a person works, I like the freedom of academia to set my own schedule, thank you.
4) What is your favorite art in the SCA? What is your favorite example of your work in that area?
I guess if I have to choose only one it would be hand-sewing. I really like the seams of my white underdress. The fabric is a linen-silk blend—the warp is silk and the weft linen. So when I did the stitching I unravelled threads from the fabric and I used the linen threads for those seams where my stitching would be parallel to the weft, and the silk thread where my stitching would be parallel to the warp, doing very tiny stitches, quite close together. It is possible to see the stitches, but it isn’t easy.
5) What is your favorite vice?
Oh, that is a hard one. Just looking at the seven Dante lists:
Pride/vanity: I like this one, because self-confidence is a trait I admire in others and try to remember to have for myself, but I’ve no interest in pushing it over the line into "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor" as Dante discussed, in part because I don’t do hatred, though I do sometimes dismiss people as unimportant in my universe.
Avarice/greed: I don’t really relate much to this one, being content to make do with little, though I am also very careful not to waste what I’ve got.
Lust: While I’m a total touch junkie, and much prefer to have more than one romantic relationship at a time, my actual lust levels are fairly low—so long as I have plenty of affection I don’t mind if there isn’t sex to go with it. (Though am happy to share sex with a loved one, if that is how they prefer the love to be expressed.)
Wrath/anger: While I do have a quick temper, I am one who tends to flare up briefly at a small annoyance, then forget I was ever angry just as quickly.
Gluttony: I’m not a big one to overindulge, but I do love foods I find yummy enough that I can see how it might be a tempting path to take.
Envy/jealously: Just can’t relate to this one.
Sloth/laziness: I have my moments enjoying these, but seem to spend far more time “being useful”.
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In other news, after answering the earlier set of questions, going home and making some yummy spinach/zucchini/tofu sauce, and then baking some of the sauce inside some bread dough (and totally burning the roof of my mouth enjoying it), I returned to uni and managed to get one capsule filled and welded shut for my next experiment. This means I get to come back again tomorrow to try to have a second one ready. Since we've also got fighter practice scheduled for tomorrow, that means it will be a busy day!
hunrvogt1) What is your plan for avoiding the drain on scholarship that can be the modern tenure track positions?
Plan? I’m not even totally convinced yet that I want to do a tenure track position—the thought of settling down in one location and staying there long term is so alien to how I’ve lived my life. Sure, I did spend from age 10 to age 18 living in one house, but that was a fluke compared to the rest of my life, both before and since. Just now doing a series of 1 to 3 year post-doc positions in a variety of locations sounds appealing. But, if I ever find the university in the perfect location, with pretty mountains under foot, located in a community which is large enough to have 24 hour grocery stores, but small enough not to be too crowded, with a good tree-to-people ratio, weather that doesn’t get too hot in the summer, and gets real snow in the winter, which actually sticks on the ground enough to permit cross-country skiing, on campus (and the campus has some woods of its own), a decent SCA group locally, a good group for contra and folk dancing, the mountains are on the correct side of the university, so that my morning commute has the sun at my back, and my evening commute has the sun at my back, then I’ll look into what I can do to stay at that university long term.
2) What region's rocks would you most like to study? Why?
Norway, Scotland, the Alps, the Himalayas, and Antarctica all have pretty metamorphic rocks, which are in pretty mountainous settings, so these all appeal to me as field areas. I love the way the deformation that built the mountains left a record in the compositions of the minerals and the fact that there are microscopic structures that echo the large scale deformation that happened.
3) Could you ever see yourself working in private industry? If yes, in what capacity?
I don’t think so—private industry tends to want to choose which hours a person works, I like the freedom of academia to set my own schedule, thank you.
4) What is your favorite art in the SCA? What is your favorite example of your work in that area?
I guess if I have to choose only one it would be hand-sewing. I really like the seams of my white underdress. The fabric is a linen-silk blend—the warp is silk and the weft linen. So when I did the stitching I unravelled threads from the fabric and I used the linen threads for those seams where my stitching would be parallel to the weft, and the silk thread where my stitching would be parallel to the warp, doing very tiny stitches, quite close together. It is possible to see the stitches, but it isn’t easy.
5) What is your favorite vice?
Oh, that is a hard one. Just looking at the seven Dante lists:
Pride/vanity: I like this one, because self-confidence is a trait I admire in others and try to remember to have for myself, but I’ve no interest in pushing it over the line into "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor" as Dante discussed, in part because I don’t do hatred, though I do sometimes dismiss people as unimportant in my universe.
Avarice/greed: I don’t really relate much to this one, being content to make do with little, though I am also very careful not to waste what I’ve got.
Lust: While I’m a total touch junkie, and much prefer to have more than one romantic relationship at a time, my actual lust levels are fairly low—so long as I have plenty of affection I don’t mind if there isn’t sex to go with it. (Though am happy to share sex with a loved one, if that is how they prefer the love to be expressed.)
Wrath/anger: While I do have a quick temper, I am one who tends to flare up briefly at a small annoyance, then forget I was ever angry just as quickly.
Gluttony: I’m not a big one to overindulge, but I do love foods I find yummy enough that I can see how it might be a tempting path to take.
Envy/jealously: Just can’t relate to this one.
Sloth/laziness: I have my moments enjoying these, but seem to spend far more time “being useful”.
**************
In other news, after answering the earlier set of questions, going home and making some yummy spinach/zucchini/tofu sauce, and then baking some of the sauce inside some bread dough (and totally burning the roof of my mouth enjoying it), I returned to uni and managed to get one capsule filled and welded shut for my next experiment. This means I get to come back again tomorrow to try to have a second one ready. Since we've also got fighter practice scheduled for tomorrow, that means it will be a busy day!
