The Move Starts Now

The movers are here! Or, at least moving the truck around the corner -- will be any second. Things will be moving along soon. I talked to John last night -- could barely hear him, but okay -- we have a free night in Vegas! Also, Maura's giving John a ride to the airport, so that's good. Anyway, by this time tomorrow, I imagine my landlord will be checking out my apartment before I go the direction of my belongings. More to come...

The Barn

A farmer walked into his barn and saw that his brown chicken was acting very strangely. Apparently, the farmer was milking the brown cow earlier that day, and had left his stool near the cow. The chicken had hopped up on the stool and was standing behind the cow. It appeared as if the chicken were thrusting into the cow. It could've been a scene from a nature show or something like it -- perhaps some other show one could download from the internet, if that was your persuasion. The farmer exclaimed:

Brown-chicken-brown-cow

Dunno if this comes across on the internet, or if you have to hear it. Let me know.

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It is done

My teaching at Cal State Fullerton is all but done. I was officially teaching two summer school classes -- introductory and advanced statistics. However, I was unofficially teaching three; three of my students needed to learn multilevel modeling, so I said if I teach 3 or I teach 15 it makes no difference, provided there is nothing to grade; I've been teaching a varying number of students multilevel modeling on Thursday afternoons -- followed by sushi. Unfortunately, there was one week I had to miss so next week is my last class to give. But, all my official teaching work is done; grades are complete and all I have to do is turn in the sheet next week.

In the past few days, people asking for statistics consulting have been coming out of the wood work! I have a job I'm about to do when I finish this post, another project coming in from the same people, and more data coming in from someone else -- AND, that's from today alone. I also have three things to finish up before the end of next week, each of which will take an afternoon -- I'm thinking of taking one entire day -- early AM to late PM, and hammering them all out, but we'll see how that goes.

It's been an exhausting week. I think it's about time to twiddle with the fist statistical model and turn in; tomorrow, the weekend starts -- I will be sleeping in.

It's also time to start packing. I eagerly await John's arrival and the return trek.