I ran my 5K today, I'm not going ANY faster than I was... I hope to improve my time during the race... we'll see. I plan on riding my bike to work tomorrow, but I'm going to keep an eye on the weather, then I'll make up my mind ;-)
I had an ultrasound appointment this morning. Who ever thought up the ultrasound (I shouldn't complain, because it's a great way to look inside and find problems)??? But come on... they make you drink all this water an hour before the ultrasound and then when you get there, they push on your bladder with a machine thingy and do this for about 10 mins... meanwhile, you are trying everything you can NOT to pee... I was a little worried a few times... That is one job I would hate... I can't imagine how many people can't do it... I bet they have a chart where they keep track of how many lose the battle. It's a good thing I don't take these tests regularly, otherwise, I would very possibly add to that count. This time I was lucky, but next time... I'm not sure...
Larissa
Thanks for carrying the blog while I've been in class, Paula!
Yeah, you know, I haven't taken statistics since undergrad psychology and that was long enough ago that I'd rather not get into it. So taking a full length stats course in 7 days is painful and...no, just painful. I have a study group now, and we've chipped in to "buy" a tutor for our next session...and did I mention this class is happening over SEVEN DAYS?!?! I'm going crazy.
However, at one point we learned about a type of probability (yes, I know it's not really a "type" of probability but I'm not in the mood so keep it to yourself). What was my point now?....Yes, probability. Well, this is represented by a symbol called, seriously, P hat. It's the letter 'p' with a little open bottomed triangle on top, the hat.
I hear this, and I'm thinking, "Now this I can get behind." So I'm imagining these stats symbols with funky little clothes. Lepard print when the probability is so out there, it's WILD! WILD! And then maybe we can have Z value wide leg cropped chinos. And t distribution low heeled sling back sandals. So many possibilities......but it still sucks. Which I accidentally said out loud. in class. LOUDLY. Luckily the prof is a good guy, and of course I apologised profusely. However, he had the last laugh when I asked him if, while marking assignments, he would consider giving marks for creativity. Apparently not so much with the creativity support in stats. Go figure (ha ha haa, you see what I did there?)
This poor prof, though, I'm sure he's going home every night and crying himself to sleep. On Monday he was trying to give an example of something (I have no idea what, it's not like I'm actually retaining anything) and he was saying, "Okay, let's apply this to something..." and I, of course, pipe up with, "Unicorn dung and the exploitation of fairy dust! I don't think you heard me! I SAID UNICORN DUNG AND THE....oh, the distribution of tree heights? That's almost the same thing, sure. Perhaps then we can apply the most boring thing in the world, stats, to yet ANOTHER boring thing! I'm sure there's something even more boring than trees! What's that? The relative tensile strength of fencing jackets? Seriously, this guy is trying to kill me."
The thing is, my friends, he ain't kidding. We spent a fairly long time working out problems using fencing jackets as the example. Unicorn dung? No, too "out there". Too P hat in lepard print. I did enjoy, however, the mental image of grabbing a fairy and shaking fairy dust out of it like it's a little winged salt shaker. Then someone (won't name names...JANE) suggested a pepper mill and...well...
