Day 657

Oh boy.  What a day.  What a very long day.

I got up early this morning.  How early, you ask? 6:15 am early.  I'm going to start working out with Tim H. three days a week in around 7.  It was less than fun.  But it's good for us.

When I got back I pretty much just tried to stay awake.  I got some lesson planning done, then I read for a little bit.  Then it was off to school!

After I arrived I got an email saying that my class with Dr. Foley was canceled.  So I read my book some more, but I was too tired to really focus.  I ended up getting another cup of coffee so that I could make it through teaching.  My friend Alex is taking MFE tomorrow, so he called today because he had a few questions on some different topics and wanted some advice.  I was able to give him a little guidance, but mainly he just needed someone to re-affirm that he did, in fact, have the information straight.  A lot of times, that can be just as helpful as re-reading the material.

I had planned on working my research project today, but I talked with one of the guys in my group and we decided that the data set we'd picked just wasn't going to work.  We were supposed to have a data set with about 15 variables... but our data set was part of the American Housing Survey and was actually comprised of 7 different data sets, each containing between 50 and 200 variables.  So.... there was way too much to go though.  I had actually gone through the set that was the most likely to be useful and found that it only had about 3 good variables anyhow.  At this point I still had an hour and a half until I taught and really had nothing to work on.  So I read some more.

Then I went to go teach.  I thought that went well.  I handed back some tests (some were quite displeased) then talked about probability.  Even though this is my favorite topic thus far, we don't get to do much of the really fun stuff.  Bummer.

I came home for a few minutes, then went to go tutor.  I had a terrible time staying awake.  Oh goodness, it was rough.  But I managed.  And obviously got my second wind when I came home.

Kimmy made some very tasty food for dinner!  She made apple butter glazed ham.  It was sooooo good.  Then for dessert we made milkshakes.  It was a good day.

Now it's time for bed.