Snowflake Challenge Day 5
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iiskaaDay 5
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.
This one was kind of hard for me, IDK. *so many non-fandom passions* I went with one I could easily produce picspam of.
Some of you on my flist probably already know this, but for those who don't, my higher education in a nutshell: first I got a degree in physics, then I got a degree in classical studies, then I went to grad school for classical studies. Then I quit grad school to study geology, which is what I'm doing now. And I love it, more than physics even, and for all that I like the languages and find it an interesting subject, I wish I could just erase the whole classical studies thing because it was a massive waste of time, I should have just stayed in the sciences.
I intend to go into hydrology, even though it's not where the big money is, because *passion*.
And being a geology major provides me with a convenient explanation for practically every flat surface in and around my house being covered in rocks. I like to hike and wander around in creek beds and things like that and I always end up carting home piles of things like this:
Shit I found in Shoal Creek. I go there pretty often because it's close to my house. What I find the most of there are Devil's Toenails (gryphaea, the things along the back), exogyra (bottom left), and waconella (bottom right). I've heard of people finding shark teeth but I've never come across one.
This is Shoal Creek. When the water is low, you can see these bits of wire sticking up all over the place with leaves and shit wrapped around them, like trash flowers. I don't know how the wire gets there, it's not rebar, it's like coat hanger wire or something.
Where the waconella come from (if you look up from the tip of my shoe to about the middle of the picture, you can see one stuck in the rock). I think usually this is under water but this summer, with the drought, a big stretch of it was exposed.
Kind of hard to make out in the picture but there are a couple cross sections of some kind of coral in this rock. You can only see any detail when it's wet. I found this one in the Colorado River just south of Town Lake.
A filled-in worm tube, maybe? This one came from Barton Creek.
Geology is my handy excuse but I've actually been collecting shit like this forever:
A handful of marble-veined pebbles I picked up off the beach of a lake in Switzerland when I was like twelve.
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.
This one was kind of hard for me, IDK. *so many non-fandom passions* I went with one I could easily produce picspam of.
Some of you on my flist probably already know this, but for those who don't, my higher education in a nutshell: first I got a degree in physics, then I got a degree in classical studies, then I went to grad school for classical studies. Then I quit grad school to study geology, which is what I'm doing now. And I love it, more than physics even, and for all that I like the languages and find it an interesting subject, I wish I could just erase the whole classical studies thing because it was a massive waste of time, I should have just stayed in the sciences.
I intend to go into hydrology, even though it's not where the big money is, because *passion*.
And being a geology major provides me with a convenient explanation for practically every flat surface in and around my house being covered in rocks. I like to hike and wander around in creek beds and things like that and I always end up carting home piles of things like this:
Shit I found in Shoal Creek. I go there pretty often because it's close to my house. What I find the most of there are Devil's Toenails (gryphaea, the things along the back), exogyra (bottom left), and waconella (bottom right). I've heard of people finding shark teeth but I've never come across one.
This is Shoal Creek. When the water is low, you can see these bits of wire sticking up all over the place with leaves and shit wrapped around them, like trash flowers. I don't know how the wire gets there, it's not rebar, it's like coat hanger wire or something.
Where the waconella come from (if you look up from the tip of my shoe to about the middle of the picture, you can see one stuck in the rock). I think usually this is under water but this summer, with the drought, a big stretch of it was exposed.
Kind of hard to make out in the picture but there are a couple cross sections of some kind of coral in this rock. You can only see any detail when it's wet. I found this one in the Colorado River just south of Town Lake.
A filled-in worm tube, maybe? This one came from Barton Creek.
Geology is my handy excuse but I've actually been collecting shit like this forever:
A handful of marble-veined pebbles I picked up off the beach of a lake in Switzerland when I was like twelve.
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