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Post by →katie on Jul 4, 2007 16:16:56 GMT -5
yeah i know... i don't even skate.... (i don't smoke pot either. don't get the wrong idea)
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 4, 2007 16:19:21 GMT -5
lol me neither. on both of those.
i wear skater clothes, but i think i'm more of a nerd because i'm like ranked #1 in my class at school and i'm already getting scholarships and i'm only going to be a junior next year and i'm taking like AP Chemistry and stuff... if that's not a nerdy class, i dunno what is.
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Post by →katie on Jul 4, 2007 16:27:37 GMT -5
that's awesome! do you know what you're going to study to be?
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 4, 2007 16:30:30 GMT -5
i dunno but probably something to do with chemistry. a forensic analyst would be SO cool... but it's not quite... practical. i might try to be some sort of pharmacist... my friend did an internship at a pharmaceutical plant growing skins cells in a petrie dish and then putting potential medicines on them, to see if it's a skin irritant.
that sounds pretty cool.
but i don't really know. there's lots i could try to do.
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Post by →katie on Jul 4, 2007 17:09:12 GMT -5
my friend wants to be a forensic anthropologist, which i think she said is like examining dead bodies. i'm guessing (hoping) that's different from a forensic analyst....
that kind of does sound cool.
my guidance counselor said i have 1 year to make up my mind on my career path =[
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 5, 2007 12:51:59 GMT -5
a forensic anthropologist studies the bones of dead people. from the bones you can tell like if a person was a man or woman, how old they were, when they died, why they died, etc. that would be really interesting... but not exactly gross. they pretty much just deal with the bones, so they're cleaned off and that's usually what you're only working with... no guts or anything. forensic anthropology is also kind of a branch off of forensic analyst, too. forensic analysts don't specifically analyze anything... just any forensic evidence.... it's pretty broad. they study the evidence at the crime scene, so they could analyze the bullet that killed someone, and figure out which gun it came from... or they could analyze the blood spatters to identify what killed the person (depending on the shape of the spatter, it can tell you if the person was shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, etc.)... they look at handwriting in suicide notes and try to figure out whether the person was forced into writing it, or if someone else wrote it, or if it is genuine.... they analyze car crashes to see if they were intentional or accidents.... there's TONS of stuff that forensic analysts do. i watched this TV show (a real murder mystery, not a fictional one) and they actually got a murderer by identifying the paper towels used to wrap the victim in. see, the paper towels had a pattern on them specific to a particular brand of paper towels, and they found that brand of paper towels in the suspect's truck. of course, that wasn't enough to nail him, but they kept looking and found that there was a skew in the pattern... holes in the paper towels that shouldn't have been there, and they were in some sort of pattern. this happens sometimes, when the roll of paper towels aren't put on the wheel that does the patterning correctly, so sometimes the pattern-maker thing pokes holes in the towels. the pattern of unintentional holes in the paper towels at the crime scene matched the pattern of the paper towels in his truck. but, still, that wasn't enough to catch him... they noticed some red fibers underneath the victim's fingernails, and they extracted them and found out that they were a specific type of fabric, identical to that of the shirt they found in his truck, too. the fibers from underneath the fingernail were the same color, and they were just as worn out as the actual shirt, and also there was a soap residue in his shirt, and in the fibers. he hadn't rinsed his shirt properly after washing it, and that's really what got him. they figured out that while the murderer was attacking the victim, the victim scratched at his shirt, trying to make him let go and some of the shirt's fibers came off underneath her fingernails. whoa. there's some cool stuff that they can do in forensics. analysts also deal with fingerprints, and shoe-prints (i also saw this one case where they linked this one guy to a crime because of his shoe-print left on some broken glass at the crime scene and they had the same worn-out markings as the shoes found in his apartment. ya know how everyone walks a specific way? well the way this guy walked, it wore out the edges of the shoes in a very unique spot and that's what got him. wow) and also stuff like interviewing suspects and people who knew the victim or the suspect, and they figure out how fires were started, DNA identification, and just all this stuff. there's hundreds of things i could do as a forensic analyst! personally, i think the handwriting analysis sounds pretty cool. are you going to be a senior next year? good luck on choosing your career....
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Post by →katie on Jul 6, 2007 15:00:23 GMT -5
all of that does sound kind of cool. my friend did say it was examining dead bodies though, so i think she meant forensic analyst. thanks! actually i'm going to be a freshman next year... the guidance counselor said i have to make up my mind by my sophomore year. =/ i get pretty good grades overall, but english is my favorite subject. so i've considered either being a lawyer or a magazine editor or something like that. hmm.
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 6, 2007 15:06:36 GMT -5
a magazine editor would be really interesting!! you could also be a novelist or something.... i think maybe i might minor in creative writing. i love it! i really want to write another fic, but it just... lose it after a few entries. i've been meaning to write one for a while, and finish it before posting it, but i just haven't been able to write anything good. it's sad... but my lifelong goal has been to publish a novel.
i have this really good idea for one, though. everyone always is asking me why i hate boys so much... and it's really because of the combination of all the guys i've known and their stupidity. i think i'm gonna (try) to write a book called "Why Boys are Stupid" and just write every stupid little thing that boys have done to make me hate them. i've got a LOT... and it wouldn't be fictional, it would all be real stuff, so it wouldn't be too hard to write. but then i got to thinking.... one of the reasons why boys are so stupid is because girls are stupid, and they are essentially why boys do stupid things: to impress the girls. so after i finish "Why Boys are Stupid"... i'mma have to write one called, "PS: Girls are Stupid, Too."
definitely.
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Post by →katie on Jul 6, 2007 15:40:14 GMT -5
i used to want to be a writer. not necessarily a novelist but just a writer, like for a magazine or newspaper or something. you should write another fic! you're a good writer, and the fantasy board is kind of dead (which we need to change =]) i agree with you, most boys are stupid a lot of the time. i think most girls agree with us too. so you should write it someday. =]
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 6, 2007 20:25:08 GMT -5
yeah but i'm sure it'll take awhile... i mean, i have a lot to complain about. haha....
ya know, i think i will write another fic, but i don't have any ideas... and i really want to get one up... and even though i want to have it completed before i post it, the incentive isn't there... i have no lines... if you guys are telling me to write more, i have to, ya know?
maybe i'll start writing one right now... but i still need a plot... hmm... i'll get back to you on that one. haha.
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Post by →katie on Jul 7, 2007 21:23:27 GMT -5
maybe you could do something kind of like the Why Boys Are Stupid idea, except this one would be fictional, like it would be told through one girl's eyes. for example every chapter could be one reason why boys are stupid, and a story to go with it? something like that might be cool.
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 8, 2007 20:05:41 GMT -5
yeah that's what i mean... told through my eyes, except with a different name. I can just see it now if i kept my name... some guy goes in the store and sees it and starts reading it because he's curious that i wrote a book and goes, 'ugh, she kept tabs on me?'
that'd be weird.
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Post by →katie on Jul 10, 2007 7:06:12 GMT -5
haha, that would be really weird. hilarious though
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Post by A Snowflake in the Sea on Jul 11, 2007 18:43:30 GMT -5
yeah holy cow... but still...weiiird.
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