the butter is getting melty in its dish when left at room temperature all day

I'm so bored with wearing boots that I've stopped tying them and just tuck the laces in (just realized that I reach this point annually)

today:
get more life insurance quotes (she gave me a really random mix of options for each of us... I didn't know there WERE increasing death benefit plans)

talk sensibly about logistic regression. (I got out of presenting this week... but I'm in about the same state of panic for next week, since I didn't really work on this.)

this weekend:

chp 6 of extra analysis book

send out a data set for next week's talk (and a getting started with analysis of it script)

due tues:

3 really hard analysis problems that I really should have started on before now

due thurs:

that stochastic that I haven't really started

friday:

presentation on topic that I haven't actually learned anything about yet

evaluations of prospective stats profs due (have I mentioned that we're hiring new teacher(s)? It's very weird being invited to come meet them and ask them questions.)

How can a game that I actually do better at by random chance than by trying be so fascinating? (not TOTALLY random. I loop through the colors in order, skipping any ones that my area isn't touching)

today: shovelling! which is gonna suck, cause it's all been walked or driven on now. and it's windy out. stupid wind.

also, meet and greet with a possible new stats prof (thank goodness we are hiring new stats profs!)

and it's a readings class today, so there goes more of my afternoon...

due tuesday: the original analysis assignment from last week. we're probably a little more than half done

next friday: my turn to present at the readings, and the first time we don't have a two week break between sessions. I am of course, freaked. I found my Survival Analysis handouts from my independent study that probably made me into a math major (I should probably send him a nice email some time.. ) and figured out where in the library to look for books. Last week's lesson was to go get an intro book instead of hoping intro level stuff is in the literature. Not so much the case in stats I guess.

luckily, stochastic is not due again until the following week...

ooo - and just realized I can go visit an insurance agent downtown instead of having to drive in the sludge. (trying to get off our butts and do the grownup thing of getting life insurance...)

looks like a busy day - I should start shovelling!

don't you hate the way that the center part of the bagel sticks out too far on one side, so you smell burning bagel, and take your bagel out of the toaster, but really it's not toasted yet (except for the burned part in the middle of one side)?

Look! Snowflakes!

I could rant about residuals from logistic regressions - but none of you would care and it would probably just make my head hurt more. Suffice to say that I read 4 seperate papers and still have no idea how you would construct some that make sense.

Between wasting a lot of time on that, and finally getting the sore throat crud that's been going around, I haven't made nearly the progress I should have. I'm about to sit down with my umpteenth glass of water and try to dent stochastic.

N on the other hand is fantastic. He has completed the transformation of the pink room into a red room, took apart and reassembled the stove, and is now vaccuuming. I'm so lucky!

Oh - and we actually managed to be social. maybe I should blame some of my lack of progress on that!

Today: Send out my notes on how to set up a GLM and GAM in R. I made them Saturday and have been hanging onto the hope that I'd get feedback before making a fool of myself. ... I'm slowly starting to realize that readings courses are all about making a fool of yourself academicly. I may force my study partner to assure me they aren't too dopey before I send them out.

This weekend:
Read the papers I found on residuals in logistic regression, try to pull 5 minutes of what they mean out of them, and keep notes in my Bibtex file.
Also, another chapter of the undergrad analysis book.

Tuesday: they were arguing about what problems will be due when for analysis when I left for my next class, I'm guessing that whatever they actually decided, I should do all the ones he assigned regardless of him not covering the material yet. It's not like I'm going to be doing them mid-week.

Thursday: another round of stochastic homework. which I expect to get a much better grade on now that I know he gives points for completion (first time I've seen this in grad school, usually it is a much better bet to just do the ones you can do, and ignore the evil ones... )

due tuesday: the leftover analysis from last week. he assigned too much. schweet cause we have already taken a swing at these, so shouldn't be too hard.

due sometime next week: an example glm/gam problem that I can email out/post on webpage. I'd love for it to be done for today, but I don't think that's possible. Even if I do hang out inside til the last possible minute, hoping for double digit temperatures. (I guess at that point I should also make my cheezy little webpage "official")

due the following week: more stochastic. I'm still trying to get my head around the idea that an integral can be a stochastic process. and a well behaved one at that! I like conditional expectations.

self imposed: another chapter of the undergrad analysis book.

Nice. that doesn't look too bad.

I couldn't sleep last night, so I pondered a homework problem I was stuck on.

And I figured it out.

The worst thing about this, is that I still couldn't sleep.

I'm just kind of horrified that orthogonal matrices and Brownian motion make sense after midnight.

this was horrible. so bad. I love cheezy action movies. I like Jason Statham. I make unsuspecting innocents watch The Transporter. I hated this movie.