Who wants their life digested and regurgitated by me for a paper?
 

I am taking a course in Cultural Anthropology and have to write a paper over the semester "about someone whose life is in many ways different from your own." Being the social butterfly that y'all know me to be...I'm kinda short on people I know in real life who I would consider having a different life than my own, and who I feel like using for a subject. So I'm appealing to y'all. If you would be willing to let me write a 7-10 page paper over your life and describing its cultural context, please let me know!
I figure we'll mostly conduct the interviews via email, so distance is no hamper (and probably is a benefit).
If I somehow get an overwhelming number of responses, I'll choose the person who has the dirtiest secret to tell me.

Elzi, your secrets might be the dirtiest but then, they're not really all that secret now are they?

Not really, I'll probably choose by lot to avoid having to make a real decision.

"A superior paper will show how a set of events shaped the person and reveal the order of their life within and against the organization of their world."

Me,Me, Pick Me!!!

I'm curious. I
I'll volunteer.

I'm up for it!

Well if none of these strapping young men do it for you, I'll volunteer. ;)

I would do it for you, how divergent could you get from someone like yourself but me! :)

Bit of a problem there: if it is a secret, no one will tell you unless he/she is selected.

Nonetheless, I, too, volunteer.

Oh yea, I'd toss my hat in that ring...mystery is my middle name...and I've got some of the scariest skeletons in my closets.

I'd be willing.

You should have the cellar vote on who you study :D

I think I'll take that suggestion.
So, on Sun (9/19) around 12am(GMT-0) I will open a poll with all the dweller volunteers at that time to be voted on. Then on Wed (9/22) 12am (GMT-0), whichever one is in the lead will be my subject.

awesome. (I'm not going to volunteer, because I think you got some better candidates already. But otherwise, I'd be willing.)

I'd volunteer, but:

1) I'm already writing a fictionalized version of my life

and

2) I don't have the time to add even one more thing to my to-do list


Good luck though! Hey, will you share your paper with us when it's done?

I don't mind sharing as long as who ever is my subject agrees. By all means though, I don't expect the volunteer to want it to be shared.

I volunteer too!
I live in a different part of the world, am older than you (almost a different generation) and my psychological and addiction problems have left me living back with the 'rents at 38. That's my pitch anyway.

I'll vote for Dana in a poll though - she's been through more than me (in her teens at least) and is back in education and a representative of a political party which is quite left wing by American standards. I know you're a liberal with a small l, but Dana's political views were firmed during the Thatcher years, whereas you were still a baby (as opposed to a babe) during the Reagan years.

Good luck with whoever you choose of course.

The journey to the nuthouse might offer some interesting discourse. I'll thrown in my ballcap.

A hamper would definitely be a benefit though. - Ouch, next please.

How can it be a benefit when it's called a hamper?

It holds your dirty clothes while they wait for laundry day.

Aaaah, this seems to be a BE/AE issue

A hamper in BE is a basket of food either for a picnic or given as a present.

I guess it goes back a few hundred years when Britain sent all their empty hampers to the colonies. We got them and having no food to put in them, we used them for dirty clothes, and well, you know the rest of that story...

Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things.

My point exactly. An had you sent nice things to the colonies in those hampers 200 some-odd years ago we might not be having this linguistic fol de rol. ;)

So we can't "blame Canada"? (Griff's posting about his day on the cellar sent me off on that tangent).

I think we can and should blame Canada as often as possible. It was probably them that stole the food from the hampers in the first place, then tried blaming the Brits. Bloody mixers!

BTW, do you call what we call a cooler a hamper?

Hampers have lids, laundry baskets do not.

"A superior paper will show how a set of events shaped the person and reveal the order of their life within and against the organization of their world."

Nice! I've got some good stuff for you, MTP. I've been mulling over these very things lately.

Not me! Gravdigr! I had to work so I could only post one flame...

And hampers are for storage, baskets for transport.

A laundry basket has an open top, and holds clean clothes waiting to be folded and put away.

A hamper has a closed top and is full of nasty, dirty clothes.

(remember, at the end of Young Frankenstein, how Elizabeth tells The Monster that she got him a special hamper for his poo-poo undies?)

Alright, poll has gone up!
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23589

Thanks to all who volunteered! Don't forget to vote for yourself!

I've got tons of 70's hippie-stoner material. Well, what I can remember of it.

You could do me if you want. I live in another country. Have children by a man from a totally different culture to my own, which is different again from your own, and my life/lifestyle has changed a fair bit through the course of my life.

Anyway, that's my plug. I'd actually be interested to see what you'd come up with.

As soon as I'd logged off and wandered away from the computer, I wondered if I'd typed the wrong name. Sincerest apologies.

Not a big deal, I do it all the time.

Phew!

I'm not sure if y'all can be added to the poll, and the others got head start....I'll pm a mod though.