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[oanja]

I don't remember if I already wrote about this, but whatever. I passed that seminar course I had. Finally! Now I'm literally two book exams away from having all my courses done for my history degree... and then the freaking thesis. Argh. But still, progress.

Finland has lost both of its hockey games so far, but they did pretty well against USA and Canada! Only way is up from here. :D

The NHL players got to Sotchi today and suddenly there's a lot to reblog on tumblr. I've never followed a tournament like this before, it's pretty neat. Oh and Selänne is the captain and he'll likely start the tournament in a line with Granlund and Barkov. That should be interesting, to say the least. Timonen and Komarov got the A's. I think it's safe to say that the Finnish team is the dark horse this time around... Let's see if they can keep the medal streak going with these guys. ^_^;

I'm sort of looking into doing my last work practice/internship abroad, but it seems so complicated. Especially because I would have to find a place to live for three months and pay for that myself. ;__; But it would be so cool... *sad whine*

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[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

History! \o/ I can't remember if I knew you were doing a history degree, but I'm really loving how many other history majors have shown up unexpectedly in this fandom. What's your area/period?

The intensity of the men's hockey coverage, even before anyone got on the ice in Sochi is startling. Lengthy videos of people getting off buses and not saying anything to anyone, let alone the reporters! People already compiling spreadsheets of roommate assignments! Not that I haven't been following nearly as closely as anyone, haha.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

History best! :D Heh, well not really... At least here it's pretty useless if you actually want a job, hence why I'm also doing another master's degree in social work right now.

My thesis is about the police in London during the first world war. I haven't really started it yet, but hopefully I'll be able to do something about how their position differed from soldiers and that clash. It's supposed to be gender history, but we'll see if I ever get it done. So I'd say gender history is my jam and I mostly did European history, but I wouldn't say I'm a real expert on anything.

So I take it you are/were also a history major? What are you interested in? Do you have a job in the field?

It really is. I have a really bad memory, but was twitter around in 2010? I wouldn't have been this interested in the coverage anyway back then, I just used to watch the men's hockey games and some figure skating. :D This is pretty interesting compared to that. I'm super happy that the reporters are asking about the roommates thing, I wish it was a common practice in the NHL too. (like I know most guys have their own rooms, but what about the new guys? Inquiring minds need to know!)

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not very useful here either, unless you plan to go into academia, but I had fun doing my degree anyway. :D (Noooooo jobs, that's for sure.)

I studied women and colonial history (thesis on British women's professional and charitable work in the Raj)! Gender history's great! Your project sounds super interesting, really chewy and fun.

I think it was, but not as popular? Certainly it didn't seem like as much of either a fannish thing, or a Official Page of Such and So thing. I don't know much about the sports side of it, my memory of the men's hockey final in 2010 was finding everywhere eerily quiet and then discovering the next day that that's what had been happening and ~30 of ~35 mill Canadians had been busy watching it, haha.

(Usually the ELC guys share, but it is irritating to have to guess when there's more than two, yeah. Though, at least the babies are often fairly devoted to updating us all on their lives via twitter?)

[oanja.livejournal.com]

academia or teaching here, but there are too many history teachers for the need and I didn't really want to become a teacher anyway... ^_^;

Gender history is the greatest. It's super interesting to read. Did you ever read John Tosh? His book really got me interested in the history of masculinity in the first place. Is the Raj in India? Is it a place? (wow really showing my ignorance here) I would love to read it, if you still have an electronic copy lying around. :) Also thanks for saying that about mine, I'm just stumped with my materials. I photographed a lot of archive material and a lot of it is handwritten and I suck at reading the cursive that was used back then. >_> That is the biggest hurdle for me right now. i think I could manage it if I just got to the phase where I was writing the damn thing.

And reporters weren't sharing every moment on there either. You didn't watch it? Is that even allowed in Canada? I don't think it would be here, if Finland got to the gold medal game. :D

Yep, and I think even older guys can share if they want to. There was this interview about some Wild guys right after the lockout ended and they were talking about keeping the same roommate they'd always had... So I've been curious about that ever since, like is it a thing that still happens or did they just need time to transition or something. x)

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that feeling. There are so many teachers here, and I'm so bad at it, I don't know why people always assume that's what you have to do with a history degree when most people don't get jobs very directly related to their studies, and it's really not an easy thing to do.

John Tosh is great! Masculinity history is so interestingly fucked up, and your project sounds like it hits a nice clear point in the eternal crisis of masculinity, plus bonus complications because you've got police and soldiers who are both partaking in the old and new! Fun stuff. Archival material is difficult though. And reading cursive is so unbearably slow when you're used to clear, computerised fonts, I find it difficult not to skim, even though I know I can usually read it if I try. But it's fun to have a lot of archival stuff, and I'm sure you can do it!

Oh, I'm sorry, the Raj is slang for India during the period where it was under direct British control. I still have that problem where I've spent too much time on the subject and forget that other people haven't. I can certainly send you a copy if you give me your email, though no obligation to read it! (I feel odd about getting other people to read it because I can now see so clearly how I could have done it differently and a lot better, even though I don't plan to rewrite, because that would be a lot of work.)

I was young and oblivious to their disapproval? ;)

The impression I got was that there were a couple of guys on various teams who were joking about keeping up their habits when the rule came in, but that very few of them actually did it? I know there were guys who had roommates when they didn't have to under the previous rules (I forget how many games/seasons counted as senior enough, but it was a lot), but they usually explained themselves as not wanting to be left out when everyone else had a roommate to automatically go to dinner with or what have you, so I'd think it would feel less isolated when everyone on the team was having to make more effort if they wanted company.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

What did you end up doing? If you don't mind me asking. ^_^;

It should be an okay topic, maybe, if the materials I have actually contain some material to base the thesis on. >_> I'm also thinking that I might go through a newspaper from the era and see what kind of reporting they did about the police force. But yeah I'm the slowest to ever read this stuff. Some of it isn't that bad, but some of it looks like this http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/oanja/9545495/164663/164663_600.jpg

Haha~ normal problem to have! my e-mail is: surippaka at gmail dot com. Yeah, I think that's a really common thing as well. I mean I wouldn't even want to re-read my bachelors thesis. :DD Reading your own texts is bad enough when it's fic, but when it's something you got graded on...

Fair enough. :D

That would definitely make sense. Might still get kind of boring and lonely, if you aren't married etc and aren't on the phone with them during the evening or something. I mean what do they do, just sit around in their room all night? (I mean I know they have team dinners etc, but still. And some of them watch the bachelor together... :D)

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have an extremely boring data entry job right now. Nothing whatsoever to do with any of my training.

That would make sense! At least newspapers from the era are frequently online and searchable to some degree. That letter... doable, but endlessly slow, especially from photos. Good luck with it!

I think lots of guys do hang out in the evening, they've just realised that it's nice to have the option to be alone if they happened to want it? And it's probably easier to find someone who wants to just hang out and channel surf with you if you'd rather not do it alone when only the babies have pre-arranged channel surfing buddies.