saker o ting

[cimorene]

• still no sign of couch! "i guess they'll call me," says wax. isn't your phone off eight hours a day? "i guess they'll have to call back."


• ideas clamouring to be stories - up to four. this makes me anxious, because once i get fixated on a story, i - feel anxious about it until it's finished, unless i manage to successfully stop caring in the interim (this did eventually happen with several half-baked tezuryo ideas, at least). 


• mental note: don't eat ripe bananas for breakfast. (it was a moment of weakness. we were out of milk.)


• my new sociology professor has a christopher lee voice which he uses only about 70% of the time and amusingly seems to keep slipping into against his will. then he'll be like, "oops, this isn't my day for world domination!"*, clear his throat, and raise the pitch an octave.


• i don't think i am really suited for the social sciences given my natural-sciences-elitist attitude, no doubt passed on at a tender age from my geologist dad. "i always thought sociology was interesting in that making it all up kinda way," he told me when he found out my major. when the new professor explained yesterday that it is not possible to limit the methodology of sociology to the empirical methods of the natural sciences i barely restrained a scoff. empirical methods aren't inherently better, is apparently the all-embracing Sociology Party Line. i have not yet convinced myself of that. of course there are no wrong methods, only wrong conclusions, but when it all comes down to limiting your conclusions, what use is a method which requires the limitation of valid conclusion to "a lot of people use cell phones, and the author of this paper is an asshat" or "incarceration practices were gender-biased, or else the wording of diagnoses was, and the author of this paper is a big fan of foucault"?

*not really

Comments

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

pshah, you can totally do that writing thing. :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

am starting to suspect it is characteristic of you that when i say "hi! oh no, i have three stories to write now and am distressed, and two of them were your ideas!" you will respond "hey, and here is a fourth one that you absolutely cannot resist!"

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

ahahahahah! this is probably true! i get ideas from everything! XD i can stop, if you like.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

that was not a serious complaint! XD

[isilya]

I'm very vicariously excited about your couch!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

when it comes i will spam you with peectures!

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Aheh. Even humanists seem to think sociology is too unempirical. At least our comp.lit. professor does. And the cultural historians, oh boy. Obviously my fandom papers have verged on the sociological side quite often, and I always get mocked for it.

Still, I like sociology, even with the fuzzy thinking. There's fuzzy thinking everywhere, most other sciences just don't want to admit it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i like sociology - i just don't like the fuzzy thinking. what i don't like is that the fuzzy thinking is widespread and considered acceptable and/or comparable to actual research by what seems to be quite a chunk of the field.