guess who's taking a weekend off?

oh, that's right. i, madame grad student workaholic because there is no other alternative to this lifestyle, am going to see my dear friend aileen this weekend. it's totally impractial and ridiculous, but i'm going nonetheless. i actually do need the break and to get away for a bit, so it's good :-). i promise to be good...mostly O:-). no, really, i'll behave. it can't be too crazy because i can't afford it and i don't want to be insanely pissed off because i am behind in work.

in other news, another member of the cohort began to actually discuss how much she was unhappy today. (this sounds so wrong, but) it made me feel like things aren't so bad and i'm not the only one going crazy. we chatted and she felt better. ah, i'm glad we're not faking happy anymore. it's exhausting having to pretend that we're happy all the time, when in fact, we all think this sucks ass and that someone is going to see what we're faking it all.

speaking of sucking ass, i had a student come up and demand to take a make-up. nevermind that the exam was last week and this is the first time she's saying anything (and the last make-up was yesterday) and the fact that she thinks we OWE her a make-up. unfortunately for her, she came up to the most uncaring TAs of the bunch. catherine told her "tough crap - should have told us sooner..." and i wanted to tell her where to go (a little further south than MA...) but the prof was nice enough to let her retake the make-up. oh yes, and during my office hours :-P.

one final note, regressions are going well. we've moved from the "primitive" simple linear to multiple regression. good times! and i'm actually still with them. some of the abbreviations are confusing (TSS, SSM, SSE, MSS, MSM, MSE...:-P) but overall, it's sinking in. plus, my good friend stata is there to do the actual work ;-) when it comes to running the equation. yay for statistical packages! :-)