what it is that i study

You know what i hate? If you know me then i have probably told you like a hundred times. By that i have growled it in passing. For no obvious reason. Leaving you a little worried about what part of the conversation you missed or about me.

I hate it when people ask me "so what do you do?".

As if there was a simple answer. It is such i loaded question. People are trying to be polite or friendly or trying to decide if your interesting slash important enough to talk with. I don't like being put into a box. Yet the answer will decide if anyone will talk to you at all. Sometimes for the rest of the night.

I have got around this mostly by getting to them first. Most people like to talk about themselves so if you get in early you can avoid the whole issues of them asking you! I am not a genius for nothing...

To be fare. I like talking about what other people do more than what i do. I will walk about art and tv and movies and books. I STUDY these things before going forth to meet people just so i have modern cultural references to help me get by.

To this end i have provided some information from one of the most reliable sources on the Internet. OK. So i just lied. The simplest and most easily digestible information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynya and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

My work also involves remote sensing and a lot of computer programming but people tend to want to hear about those things even less.

I also work with small children. Think i should be doing something in the arts instead and wish i were back with my old department where everyone else did things like me. Only more interesting and they were happy to talk about it even if you didn't ask.

my work here is done.