Zu's musings

Woah!

So I was sitting around late at night flipping through channels when I saw Dr. Millett. He's on BookTV right now. I immediately grabbed the closest tape and started recording it. So now when Laura watches seaQuest episodes that I got from the SciFi marathon, there'll be a random clip of Dr. Millett talking about the Korean War.

I like it because it's like sitting in my graduate class again. In fact he's telling the same exact story to these people now that he told us in class. Lol. He's telling a rediculous joke about a defector to the RoK army. I can't tell if the audience is laughing or not.

I think this might have been the week he took off and we had a substitute teacher. I had to talk about Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Corbett and I researched it really well. Then I gave a summary to a PhD student.

OMG, is that Elliot Cohen that's asking a question? It is! I recognized him from a lecture he gave at the Mershon Center last year.

...I'm such a history nerd.

posted by Zu @ 11:53 PM 10 comments

bah!

Instead of being outside in Ashtabula with my shotgun, I'm stuck at home. The guy I bought my hunting license from at Dick's "forgot" to give me the state duck stamp even though I told him I was going to shoot waterfowl several times and filled out the waterfowl survey. Bah!

Anyways, I'm taking this time to research Kansas State. They don't need applications in until mid-January, so I'm considering them again. OSU is my first choice, but K-state is pretty awesome in its own right. Every time I look at the catalog of history classes I get excited. I noticed this one today.

HIST 993. History of Military Thought. (3) II, alternate years. The History of Military Thought from Machiavelli to the Present. Pr.: HIST 801 or concurrent enrollment.

If I took that, I'd have such a leg up because of the 768 class I just took here. Maybe they'd even give me credit since the OSU class seems so similar. They also have this class which looks pretty cool.

HIST 990. Seminar in Military History. (3) I, alternate years. Discusses such problems as command, the military and diplomacy, the officer corps, training, and women in the military. Pr.: HIST 801 or concurrent enrollment.

BTW, 801 is their historiography class. It looks to be the basic history graduate class.

If I become a TA, which I really want to do since I enjoy teaching, I'll get something like $7,500 for the school year plus they pay all my fees. Score! "Beginning GTAs work as graders or discussion leaders, and experienced assistants are frequently assigned independent sections of survey courses." That sounds cool. I think the part I liked most about the museum was when people would ask me questions about things that weren't directly related to a tank or a gun. Then I could break out of my standard tour guide talk and really explain grander themes. Like, "Well here's why the Americans didn't ship Pershing tanks in great number until the end of the war." or "That's a good point, but Market Garden was probably doomed to failure for a number of reasons besides the apparent lethargy of the XXX Corps."

Lol, now I'm all amped. I want to go to the museum and lead random discussions with visitors now. Maybe I'll be able to TA in a WWII class at K-state or OSU. That'd be so sweet.


I was also wondering if I should put the ol' URL for the blog on my Resume/CV. Even though it seems like lots of people already know how to get here from Dr. Grimsley's site, I think I'll put the link in there anyways. As it is, I get random hits from all sorts of computers. So far I think I've had someone in the Army intel center and the Naval Ocean Systems Center looking around. Plus I have infrequent visitors from Harvard and someone from Poland. Curiously the National Park Service also seems to have an interest in my blog. ;-)

Seriously though, I'd like comments or emails from people who come to the site several times. What do you think of the blog?

posted by Zu @ 10:29 AM 0 comments