Tags: interview, Moldova, Chisinau, fieldwork, radio, acronym, random, PhD
Date: 14 September 2007 14:44:45
It's not just the Germans who do funny acronyms. In my line of work I've come across a couple of classics.
The one I've known about for a while is a qualitative data analysis software package, the forerunner to the package I'm (allegedly, *cough*) using to analyse my data - it's full name was Non-Numeric Unstructured Data - Indexing Searching Theorising, but it's always known as NUD*IST (ho ho). But imagine my joy this week when I discovered the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics - affectionally shortened to JOCSTraP. Now admit it - hasn't that made your life just that little bit better? It did mine.
In other news, I was on the radio again yesterday, and this week I said something! In Romanian, no less! I also blanked at the end, when unexpectedly the presenter suddenly asked me for a last word. In a scene reminiscent of just about every job interview I have ever had, absolutely every last thought in my head buggered off and hid behind the sofa. On live radio. Sigh. I did eventually come out with something, but am slightly worried that in my confusion instead of saying I hoped that psychologists would be less stigmatised as a profession (which is what I meant) I said "more" instead of "less", which let's face it changes the meaning somewhat, and not in a good way. Nobody said anything though - I'm not sure if I did actually say what I meant or if they were just being polite and not pointing or laughing till I left the room.