"A child-rearing manual"
Undergraduate stuff
I attended
U.C. Berkeley. I got degrees in French and Genetics (when I threw a
dart at the catalog to pick my major it embedded itself up to the page
about Freshman and Sophomore Studies, and you can't major in that, so I
compromised and majored in the subjects on either side (That may or may
not be true, though it is true that French, Freshman and Sophomore
Studies and Genetics sit next to each other in the catalog)).
When I was at U.C. Berkeley I was a member of the
Vampire Research Group at Berkeley. Here's our working paper,
though it doesn't have a lot to do with vampires.
I'm now trying to figure out what to study in Graduate School.
The choices are, at the moment, Medieval and Renaissance French
Culture and Literature and Psychology.
Psychology
I've toyed with the idea of becoming a therapist for a long time,
but I'm just not sure if that would be right for me. I very much
like the idea of being able to help people find out who they are,
and what motivates their behavior, and how to deal with what they
don't like. I've always liked figuring out how people think.
Still, I don't know that I like the codependent aspects of it.
Medieval and Renaissance French
This is the undergraduate major I ended up not hating when I got
done with it. In fact, I loved it. I haven't been going out and
getting books about genetics, but I have been buying history books.
I've been buying more than will fit on the shelf, unfortunately.
I've also been joining mailing lists at a ferocious rate.
If you are, like me, interested in the Middle Ages, you may want to
look at this list of discussion lists, or
this list of URLs about various
medieval topics.
I'm a sometime member of the SCA- the Society for
Creative Anachronism, not the Student Conservation Association, the Student
Committee for the Arts, or the Society for Creative Anarchism, or even the
Society for Compulsive Authenticity (well, OK, sometimes it is that). The
SCA tries to recreate certain aspects of the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance that it likes, without those it finds objectionable.
One of my favorite authors of the time period is Michel de
Montaigne. I have put some of his Essays
into html.
What does that quote at the top of the page mean?
"A child-rearing manual" is what Orson Scott Card wrote in
the copy of Ender's Game he signed for me. I like
the quote, because it shows he has a quirky sense of humor.
I like to think that I do, too.
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