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Mar. 2nd, 2012 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigriswolfa) You know what I just got a craving for? Some good old-fashioned overprotective big brother Dean Winchester fics. How odd is that? I kinda wanna rewatch seasons 1&2 now.
b) Remember that job I got fired from last year? Yeah, I'll be going back, in a different section, doing something different, the week after next. If all goes well, I'll be there till the end of June/start of July.
c) Last week (on Mardi Gras!) the temp agency I signed on with sent me to a call center. The four days I was there, I hated it more than the movie theater/department store combined. I actually called
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tigremerein tears. It was bad.d) I've been working on the Highlander/Avengers movieverse crossover ( 'a taste of lightning' ) recently. It's at ff.net and Ao3 at the moment. I'm really not sure when I'll move it here. Anyway, the research I've conducted into Norse mythology has made me like Loki even more. Fuck, but he and his kids got a raw deal. The Norse gods were a bunch of douchebags.
e) I'm waiting to recieve the final go-ahead on the Klaine Princess Diaries fic from the beta. Then I've got to figure out how to put navigation bars and the header into it in HTML. It's the longest thing I've ever set out to write, and I really do love it.
f) What kind of jobs involve mythology?
g) I'm twenty-four now.
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Date: 2012-03-02 07:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-02 07:14 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2012-03-02 04:05 pm (UTC)Cold calling for an insurance agent is the closet that I've come to the circle of hell that is phone customer service. Both take a special type of person and I am not it.
Librarian (research specialist) is the only think I can think of that might involve mythology. I know I always wanted the chance to play in that sandbox.
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Date: 2012-03-02 07:17 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Yeah,
It just occurred to me as I was going back through Norse mythology - I really like it. So I started thinking about what I could do with that, the only thing that came to me was teacher.
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Date: 2012-03-02 04:07 pm (UTC)I've been watching old episodes (and gag reels) a lot recently. Seasons 1 & 2 do have their 'innocent' charm O.o XD
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Date: 2012-03-02 07:19 pm (UTC)I went through my SN memories last night. There really is a lot of good stuff in the fandom.
They were so young in the first couple seasons. And Sam was so little. *hee*
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Date: 2012-03-03 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-02 04:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-02 07:21 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Overprotective big brother Dean is my favorite flavor.
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Date: 2012-03-03 12:58 am (UTC)Mythology related jobs: professors (of mythology, of languages, philosophy, religion, history), religious figures. That's in general. If you want to use specific mythological figures, almost all of them have modern job equivalents (Hephaestus as a steel mill worker, Hera as a dorm mom at a college).
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Date: 2012-03-03 04:39 pm (UTC)It was an answering service, a week after a system overhaul, so the people calling in for sometimes already annoyed.
I actually meant a realworld job for me involving mythology, that wasn't teaching.
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Date: 2012-03-06 03:59 pm (UTC)Archaeologist, sociologist, something in cultural studies, art historian, archivist/librarian/research (which could tie in with writing about mythos).
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Date: 2012-03-06 04:56 pm (UTC)Sociologist? How so?
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Date: 2012-03-04 11:09 pm (UTC)Happy Belated Birthday.
Good luck finding a job you like. (I know how that goes. I've not done any call centers, but I have funky hearing and it's doubtful I could hear every person on the phone properly.)
I've been ennjoying that HL/Avengers crossover.
On Loki, it's been years since I've read the stories. But you do get to feeling that Loki gets punished for doing anything that benefits the norse gods. (Mouth sewn shut for one.)
I have also read (but now I can't find it again) version of "reason why Loki got tied to a rock with his kids' intestines" where Loki was being punished for telling the gods things they didn't want to hear or didn't want know. (The gods were having a banquet, and boasting about the great things they'd done. Loki comes in and points out where they've screwed up and such.)
Sometimes I've wondered if some of the stories about Loki are more cautionary tales, like the old fairy tales. Even with smarts and luck, he still ended up getting the short end of the deal.
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Date: 2012-03-05 01:40 am (UTC)Librarian, researcher, and teacher are the ones I think of right off.
Thanks!
The phones we used had poor reception, and many of the people either mumbled or had thick accents. It was awesome.
Good to know!
All of Loki's troubles as a cautionary tale... makes sense, the poor bastard.
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Date: 2012-03-07 06:14 pm (UTC)I think Loki's getting tied to the rock (with acidic venom dripping into his eyes wtf Odin) was for engineering the death of Baldr. Oh and on the research front- you've probably already read this but I cannot reccomend D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths enough- I loved that book as a kid (still do) and the illustrations are really gorgeous.
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Date: 2012-03-08 12:18 am (UTC)But using his son's entrails to chain him there? After causing another son to kill that one? At least no one else was punished with Prometheus.
I'll check that book out, thanks! ETA: Turns out, you're right! I did already read that one.