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cimorene...i miss my ipod so so much. maybe i can talk wax into coming with me to the computer store this afternoon and getting a usb 2.0 card. :/
last night V was over. he agreed to watch anything we liked, so we introduced him to torchwood with the recent episode involving time-travellers from the 1950s. we said we'd pause to explain anything that came up as we went along, and then when i mentioned doctor who it turned out he'd never heard of it, and we tried to summarise the entire thirty-something years of it in about five no doubt very confusing minutes. XD poor guy is a very good sport. wax also insisted, in the lulls in conversation, that i talk about the insane crack aus i've been reading in the professionals, and the first one of those i mentioned was the brigadoon one, which left him going "O.O?", especially when we tried to explain what purple prose was.
i was looking forward to statistics a lot because i loved it in high school, but i've realised now that it's going to be very different. this is a career-oriented class to teach social scientists the principles of statistics and how to use a point-and-click computer program that does the calculations for you, assuming we will need statistics professionally, but only as a certain element of our work. the lectures are theoretical; the only formula we've even seen is for standard deviation. and Professor DetDär is an adorable little white-haired dude, but his lectures are a bit repetitive and slow, which sucks at 8 am because it's really hard to stay awake.
last night V was over. he agreed to watch anything we liked, so we introduced him to torchwood with the recent episode involving time-travellers from the 1950s. we said we'd pause to explain anything that came up as we went along, and then when i mentioned doctor who it turned out he'd never heard of it, and we tried to summarise the entire thirty-something years of it in about five no doubt very confusing minutes. XD poor guy is a very good sport. wax also insisted, in the lulls in conversation, that i talk about the insane crack aus i've been reading in the professionals, and the first one of those i mentioned was the brigadoon one, which left him going "O.O?", especially when we tried to explain what purple prose was.
i was looking forward to statistics a lot because i loved it in high school, but i've realised now that it's going to be very different. this is a career-oriented class to teach social scientists the principles of statistics and how to use a point-and-click computer program that does the calculations for you, assuming we will need statistics professionally, but only as a certain element of our work. the lectures are theoretical; the only formula we've even seen is for standard deviation. and Professor DetDär is an adorable little white-haired dude, but his lectures are a bit repetitive and slow, which sucks at 8 am because it's really hard to stay awake.
