Academics can haz hobbies \o/

[fishpatrol]

When I grow up (aka finish my degree and get a ~*real*~ job, i.e. be a professor), I want to be just like them. :D Being a grown up doesn't necessarily have to translate into being more concerned with ~*real life*~ -- it just means that I can combine my research interests with my fannish interests and have increased funding (i.e. a ~*real*~ salary) to pursue my fannish interests. :>

Also: people are all, like, yay, summer break is starting, and I'm all, oh noes, half of my summer break is over (and I totally don't have half of my project done D:)!

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[fishpatrol]

When we're done with our degrees, we're totally going to do the same thing (i.e. go on a road trip and interview B-list celebs and go to conventions, all under the guise of "doing research") -- right? right? :D

New season of White Collar next week! \o/ And new episode of Leverage on Sunday! There are no planned hiatuses for either of the shows throughout July and August, so we'll have our weekly TV nights again!

Oh man, don't remind meee D:

[cantarina]

If you mean that seriously, I think I'm kind of on board. You know I've wanted to study fandom and there's plenty of crossover between our fields.

Okay, so I am on call on Sunday, but should be free on Tuesday. I feel like there are no guarantees to my schedule right now, but I suppose we're not watching live either way.

[fishpatrol]

It's hard to predict what'll happen 5~6 years down the road (assuming I don't give up on this degree halfway through ;)), but I am mostly serious. I've actually thought about it a bit -- I mostly work with experimental designs and empirical testing, but some people in marketing and psychology do use qualitative methods (i.e. interviews) and I can look into them, and I think we can probably find enough overlap in our research interests to cobble a paper together. :>

White Collar is on at 9pm, so we might not be able to get the episode until Wednesday. We could save both Leverage and White Collar for Wednesday?

[cantarina]

You know, there's no reason we can't start pursuing that now. I know we're both plenty busy with coursework, but something small scale might be really do-able.

Wednesday is a terrible, terrible night for me. Everything happens on Wednesdays. Do we really want to wait until Thursday every week, though?

[fishpatrol]

We can start discussing idea once we meet up this week! :>

We could do Leverage on Mondays and White Collar...whenever? We can always do a re-watch on Thursdays or Fridays if we can't meet up on Wednesday. Or we can meet up earlier on Wednesday, rather than in the evening. Idk, I'm fairly flexible -- we can change it up and meet on different days for different weeks. ;)

[cantarina]

I found someone in our study space while I was on a call early today. FOR SERIOUS, YOU ARE A NICE GUY, BUT THAT'S NOT YOUR SPOT.

Aha, I'm tired and protective of a niche.

Flexibility is good! Mondays should work pretty well for Leverage, though :)

[fishpatrol]

LOL. You should have used your EA powers for the greater good and kicked him out of our spot. ;) This could be a serious problem! What if we need to study and he's in our spot??