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

morethanpretty · 09-15-2010, 03:23 PM

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."

fargon · 09-15-2010, 03:55 PM

Me,Me, Pick Me!!!

squirell nutkin · 09-15-2010, 04:09 PM

I'm curious. I
I'll volunteer.

Bullitt · 09-15-2010, 07:38 PM

I'm up for it!

Clodfobble · 09-15-2010, 08:19 PM

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

TheMercenary · 09-15-2010, 09:24 PM

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

GunMaster357 · 09-16-2010, 03:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

If I somehow get an overwhelming number of responses, I'll choose the person who has the dirtiest secret to tell 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.

Yznhymr · 09-16-2010, 04:36 PM

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.

DanaC · 09-16-2010, 04:57 PM

I'd be willing.

monster · 09-16-2010, 06:42 PM

You should have the cellar vote on who you study

morethanpretty · 09-16-2010, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

You should have the cellar vote on who you study

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.

glatt · 09-16-2010, 07:08 PM

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

Stormieweather · 09-16-2010, 07:28 PM

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?

morethanpretty · 09-16-2010, 07:33 PM

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.

Sundae · 09-17-2010, 12:34 PM

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.

09-15-2010, 03:23 PM	#1
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	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." __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

09-15-2010, 03:55 PM	#2
fargon Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: La Crosse, WI Posts: 8,924	Me,Me, Pick Me!!! __________________ Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind.

09-15-2010, 04:09 PM	#3
squirell nutkin has a second hand user title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: in a Nut House Posts: 2,017	I'm curious. I I'll volunteer. __________________ And now I'm finished posting.

09-15-2010, 07:38 PM	#4
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	I'm up for it! __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

09-15-2010, 08:19 PM	#5
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Well if none of these strapping young men do it for you, I'll volunteer. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

09-15-2010, 09:24 PM	#6
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I would do it for you, how divergent could you get from someone like yourself but me! __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-16-2010, 04:36 PM	#8
Yznhymr the crowd goes wild! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 663	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. __________________ "The pride system tends to intensify the self-hate against which it is supposed to be a defense, since any failure to live up to one's tyrannical shoulds or of the world to honor one's claims leads to feelings of worthlessness." Bernard J. Paris, Ph.D.

09-16-2010, 06:42 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	You should have the cellar vote on who you study __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-16-2010, 07:08 PM	#12
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	awesome. (I'm not going to volunteer, because I think you got some better candidates already. But otherwise, I'd be willing.)

09-16-2010, 07:28 PM	#13
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	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? __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

09-16-2010, 07:33 PM	#14
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	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. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

09-17-2010, 12:34 PM	#15
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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.

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