Quick Update!

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Writing a research statement is much harder than I expected, so here's a bit of a break from it.

1. Today we caulked around the front door (which is quite drafty in the winter) and one of the front windows. I really hope it helps. And it really felt like something an old, boring, married couple does on the weekends, which amused me.
   
   
2. I don't mean to imply that my life is old or boring. In fact, it is immeasurably lovely right now.
   
   
3. Even though I'm applying for jobs, and having (of course!) strange code problems at work. Aaargh.
   
   
4. And even though we've been married for fifteen days and have already lost the marriage certificate. Ack!
   
   
5. The eeee! is the only person I know who sees a strange charge on his credit card statement, calls the credit card, hears, "The charge is from Australia," and says, "Oh! Then that's legitimate." Hee.
   
   
6. I will have pictures from Hawai'i online soon! Once I'm done writing up the past research part of my research statement.
   
   
7. Oh! I read Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers, on the beach, and absolutely loved it. LOVED IT. Lord Peter Whimsy I wasn't much of a fan of, actually, but I loved Harriet Vane. So what are the other Sayers books I should pick up? And what about other books that are set at women's colleges before WWII? Between Gaudy Night and Daddy-Long-Legs, that's a setting I really adore.
   
   
8. I'm going to Yom Kippur services with the eeee! tonight (and in return, he will be coming to Midnight Mass with me). I'm looking forward to it, because while I've been to seders and (my own) half-Jewish wedding, I've never been to any other Jewish services.
   
   
9. I finally watched the Gilmore Girls premier, and . . . argh. Which is fine, because I don't have time to watch much TV anyways.
   

Now back to discussing the importance of the scatter! And selection biases in observational surveys! Sigh.