i am avoiding my reading on various statistical concepts that sound less than thrilling, among them the before-after estimator and the matching method. i admit that.
what i am not doing is thinking of something clever to kick off the countdown to graduation. i - with many others - am seven class weeks away from finishing my master's degree. and i have a sneaking suspicion that graduation is going to feel absolutely anti-climactic, so a countdown is an (possible misguided, procrastination-driven) attempt to make the whole anticipation of it a little more exciting. so, i ask you, my fellow near- graduate school graduates, what are things appropriate to a countdown? favorite moments of the past year and a half or so is fun but predictable. and, given my short memory, would have to be the chair L-hold competition and the drunken intensity and fervor for which it was responsible. other ideas? anyone with any bright ideas is welcome to share them in the comments section. because we will all have an insatiable need for procrastination material over the next seven weeks. let's face it.
on another note, brendan just brought some fungal growth floating in brown water over to show me. apparently he is embarking on a liquid experiment of sorts that, when ingested, will make us "the healthiest people in the world". we'll see. life as the girlfriend of a SNAG can be trying.
