no worries

to those who read yesterday's blog, good news: i think i have figured out my thermastat and have adjusted it to a mild 65 degrees right now. enough to keep me awake but not freezing my non-existent cojones off.

today is "lots of work" day: CAM, labor market paper/readings, and stats if i can get to it. it'll be fun times. tomorrow will be better. we were going to go on a hayride, but thanks to the torrential downpouring rain that was supposed to continue today (officially making it a rainy week), we figured it would be more fun to send out (literally) 20 emails collectively last night to discuss other options (stupid grad students being so democratic and "everyone has a voice"...j/k, i actually started it; there were two people who didn't check their emails all night and hence didn't join in the conversation. all i gotta say is "i apologize for your 20 new emails just from your overly loquacious cohort") um, so yeah, 20 emails later, we've decided to hang at laura's with the potential plan of:

a) playing some kick-ass games (some suggested scrabble, but honestly i've been playing several games of scrabble for the last six months and it would be the end of me; i've suggested my favorite group games: cranium and/or balderdash);

b) crash a local undergrads' loud and obnoxious kegger (ah, fond memories, matt);

or c) out-do their loud and obnoxious kegger with our own kick ass party.

i think it'll be a combination of (a) and (c)

oh! oh! i almost forgot. shawn's comment in stats yesterday about dan having to know why and courtney and i just "having faith" that it'll all work: "sanjiv [the prof] is like God and the central limits theorem [what inferential stats is built on] is like the Bible - just go with it." apparently there's a religious theme to this class i wasn't aware of.