how did you pick your GB name?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:23 pm

@C.E Definitely, I mean it's hardly our fault that we're compelled to spend time on games and chatrooms instead of researching and writing.

Actually, I do have a legitimate reason for not having been able to work on my reearch. The city in which most of material lies (an hour and a half ferry trip away from me)has been experiencing a protracted bus strike, and there's no end in sight. What's really funny is that a chunk of my work deals with labour history, yet a bus strike is preventing me from defending the cause of labour as it were........
Today I bought a bike(don't drive) it was just getting silly....

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:26 pm

@DW: No, I haven't installed ToB yet. Spamming is cutting into my playing time considerably. Maybe Black Isle should consider suing GameBanshee for drawing players away from their games? But I'm having fun on the story thread. I like our little mystery!

@CE: I'm staying up late spamming because I can't help myself! I really should try to cut back, maybe go outside, look at some grass, a tree. See life again. But,... later. I have beautiful ladies to talk to! (Did that sound like something Brink would say?)

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:27 pm

@DW: Certainly it can't be our fault, it's just evil manipulation of innocent minds

Actually, I have legitimate reasons as well, my lab is closed until August, so I'm only working 50% this month.

Ironic thing with the bus strike. What exactly is your thesis about?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:32 pm

@Gwalchmai, yes I'm enjoying the story, even more than the games funnily enough.

@C.E Well, in brief I'm looking at the role of women's auxiliaries within unions (post WW2). Essentially, I argue that even while they stayed in the domestic realm, women through their ties to community etc, were able to wield tremondous, if not critical, influence.

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:37 pm

Good night ladies and lurkers.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:39 pm

@Gwalchmai, sweet dreams

I've got the yawns myself actually, maybe I'll take advantage of it and try to sleep. Night night.

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C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:43 pm

@Gwalchmai: Goodnight, and yes you sound like Brink

@DW: Interesting topic, what was your reasons for chosing it?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:51 pm

@C.E Well.....when I was first considering graduate school I was initially looking at going into gender(well, reproductive to be precise) history but the departments that I appplied to did not actually have anyone able to work with me. However, I was also taking a Labour history course at the time. I got along quite well with the instructor (breathtakingly handsome and about the same age as me) and he pointed out that I could, to some degree combine the two. He contacted his former MA supervisor, who is now my supervisor......
Although I had not originally intended to go this route I'm very glad that I did, it has been quite rewarding.
How about you? I know that you're in science but what areas are you studying?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 12:02 am

@DW: I think it's often like this when you decide to gratuate in something, you have some ideas, then you meet people along the way and get new ideas that change your route. And that's a good thing, it would be to damned predictable otherwise.

My reasearch? My basic education is psychologist, and I've also studied neuroscience. My dissertation is about the role of the serotonin system in the human brain. Apart from that, I also work with other projects, most basic research about brain functioning, but some clinical projects about psychiatric and neurologic disorders.

EIDT: I have to go now, see you later and good night when ever you manage to get some sleep

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thantor3 · Post by **thantor3** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 3:07 am

@CE: It's interesting that you mention your work on with serotonin. Candace Pert was the commencement speaker at my medical school graduation ceremony. Closer to home, the town I live in had an individual who could best be described as a fanatic prescribing Prozac to everyone walking through the door. Though our town has only 24,000 people, our Prozac prescription rate was higher than Seattle's. On that happy note, I'm off to bed.

cheesemage · Post by **cheesemage** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 9:52 pm

my name well in games like fianl fantasy i like naming the people funny things the protaginist has something to do with cheese in his name and everything else i think of something funny at the momment
so i decided to make a aim name cheesemage a wile ago and have been using the name cheesemage ever since

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 10:10 pm

.... No comment....

cheesemage · Post by **cheesemage** » Sun Jul 08, 2001 10:12 pm

well let me put it this way im amused easily