Meme

[altariel]

From qatsi. I've done this before, but the sentence concerned was just too good to pass up on.

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

"The lack of career opportunities for sociologists and other social scientists during the 1980s, combined with a massive expansion in business and management teaching, resulted in many students with postgraduate training in sociology and related dsciplines being forced to find work outside sociology departments."

From: Against Management, by Martin Parker.

Comments

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Your icon. OMG, your icon!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It amuses me ;-)

I'm about to!

[sallyodgers.livejournal.com]

... grab the nearest book!

Re: I'm about to!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Re: I'm about to!

[sallyodgers.livejournal.com]

I did it. The book was one I have on the table ready for shelving, and was one of the two closest fiction books. The other, stacked under it, probably has too few pages (Pat Wrightson's A Little Fear).

Re: I'm about to!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I don't know the book you picked but - yikes, dramatic moment.

Re: I'm about to!

[sallyodgers.livejournal.com]

It's the third one in a trilogy of first person YA chick lit. Sue Limb is a British writer who specialises in scatter-brain heroines (she's been writing for years, predating Helen Fielding, I think).

Re: I'm about to!

[kerravonsen]

Hey! SallyO! You've got an LJ! (goes off and friends)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh the poor dears!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL! At the end of the day, it beats going down t'pit.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

There's been a lot of discussion about "feral fans" lately so this made me think of sociologists being released into the wild (and probably starving or being slaughtered by packs of economists or something).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

sociologists being released into the wild

God, it would be pathetic. We are sad products of modern urban living.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

DARK!WILLOW: In my world, sociologists are born free but are everywhere in chains. And you can ride them like ponies.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Too unfit to be much use as a pony.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

The urban legend about "sociologists in the sewers" arose because of the unwise practice of scooping up baby sociologists from the autumn woods. Urban denizens, beguiled by the shiny button eyes, take the little critters home as pets, and then flush them down the toilet as their vices, such as territorial marking, manifest themselves. (Many of these behaviors have been bred out in the sociologists specifically reared as pets, although ethical purchasers should beware of "TA Mills.")

Of course, nobody makes this mistake about lawyers.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*snort!* And the teeth. Don't forget the teeth.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

Why do people always post this when the nearest book to me is a computer manual?

Oh. Because I'm always on the computer when I'm in Livejournal.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

D'oh!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work with poetry books either. One, you're lucky if there are 123 pages, and two, even luckier if there are as many as 5 complete sentences on any page.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Whereas the book nearest to me never changes for twelve months, so it would get rather boring quoting the same sentence again and again.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about cookery books either. Plenty of pages, but you might not be lucky with the subject matter. Want to know how Margaret Fulton recommends fish descaling?

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Exactly my glee!

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

The closest books to me at the moment are in the bookshelf behind me. I cleaned off the second computer so I could set a third computer on top of it while I repaired it. That is the usual location for the computer wisdom book pile which would normally be closest to me.

Hence: from "Color Me Beautiful", by Carol Jackson.

Some cosmetics lines are heavily weighted toward one base tone, and you may find nothing for you. Even the chemist who creates these colors is influenced by his or her own season, intuitivly. Helena Rubenstein, before her death, was actively involved with the creation of her own line of cosmetics. She was a Winter. Now I know why I always had good luck at her counter. So, it you aren't finding what you need, don't hesitate to say, "None of these is right for me", and move on to the next counter.

I bet you weren't expecting that, from me.

JFTR, it is my wife's book.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

it is my wife's book

But have you found your colour yet?

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

Yes, my favorites are purple, blue, green, and gray.

I am not sure what season that is, but I love autumn and winter.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We are of one accord. Both in colours and in seasons.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

This couldn't have fallen better. One to treasure.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness everything is so much better for the profession in this our new millennium!

The abyss stares back

[(Anonymous)]

I see my future in that quote and your icon. The problem is, I'm not sure I can compete with the sociologists for road side handouts...

Dwim

Re: The abyss stares back

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Surely all the cool kids want philosophy degrees to go with their penury?

Re: The abyss stares back

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, what we all want with our philosophic poverty are state-sponsored meals at the local haute cuisine establishment, but we're not so fond of the trial and hemlock behind door number two, nor of the loaded dice.

Dwim