December 13, 2008
December 11, 2008
Another random thought
(I'm so good at getting distracted by random thoughts while studying. It's too bad I didn't save them all over all these years of school - that could have been interesting reading after the fact. Or maybe not)
I think more than any other sensory trigger, music has the strongest ability to pick me up and throw me backwards into memories of times and places past. Scents can do the same thing, so can food, photos, or revisiting places I've been, but music is by far the most efficient form of such transportation...
I think more than any other sensory trigger, music has the strongest ability to pick me up and throw me backwards into memories of times and places past. Scents can do the same thing, so can food, photos, or revisiting places I've been, but music is by far the most efficient form of such transportation...
December 10, 2008
Random thoughts
It's 11:30pm. I'm tired of halfheartedly "studying" (using that term pretty loosely) for my Bus 150 exam tomorrow. I'm not done yet-even I have standards. I have to at least read through all the notes, afterall.
The wine is not helping.
The fire and the Christmas music are making it slightly more bearable.
But what I'd really like right now
is a cookie.
Can I please have a cookie?
The wine is not helping.
The fire and the Christmas music are making it slightly more bearable.
But what I'd really like right now
is a cookie.
Can I please have a cookie?
December 7, 2008
"Dashing through the snow [mud!]..."
Ok, so when we planned this 6 weeks ago we were fully aware that it might be a "dashing through the snow" sort of run, but thankfully there was no snow to dash through
[...although...that could make for some interesting dashing...it certainly made for some interesting riding long, long ago when I actually rode my bike on regular occasion...anyways, that's not the point of this post...]
Here is the point:
Woot! Happy girls after a 7km jaunt through the forest. I must say though, it's a really good thing we weren't playing for money with our poker hands, lol.
Since Bazette is such a smart girl she had a camera in her pocket and if you go here you can see what we ran through this morning...gorgeous light on dew covered forest... :)
Likalia and I contented ourself with admiring the view and admiring Likalia's not-quite-so-glaring-white-anymore runners - hehe, thank you muddy trail ;)
[...although...that could make for some interesting dashing...it certainly made for some interesting riding long, long ago when I actually rode my bike on regular occasion...anyways, that's not the point of this post...]
Here is the point:
Woot! Happy girls after a 7km jaunt through the forest. I must say though, it's a really good thing we weren't playing for money with our poker hands, lol.
Since Bazette is such a smart girl she had a camera in her pocket and if you go here you can see what we ran through this morning...gorgeous light on dew covered forest... :)
Likalia and I contented ourself with admiring the view and admiring Likalia's not-quite-so-glaring-white-anymore runners - hehe, thank you muddy trail ;)
We did it!
6 weeks of run/walking-we actually kept it up! I'm proud of us :)
Today is the Comox Valley Road Runners' annual Jingle Bell poker run which was our goal event for the beginning of this 'program'. So if you'll excuse me, it's time to put on some jingle bells, find a food bank donation, and go running through seal bay park seeking out the elusive card dealers-wish me luck for a good poker hand...I wonder where I put my Santa hat...
Today is the Comox Valley Road Runners' annual Jingle Bell poker run which was our goal event for the beginning of this 'program'. So if you'll excuse me, it's time to put on some jingle bells, find a food bank donation, and go running through seal bay park seeking out the elusive card dealers-wish me luck for a good poker hand...I wonder where I put my Santa hat...
December 3, 2008
GAH->Excel
Can anyone explain to me how to get excel to recognize the zeros that my =IF(G28>VLOOKUP(D28,MileageLookup,2,FALSE),G28-VLOOKUP(D28,MileageLookup,2,FALSE),"0") function has returned for values of the logical function that are false? The DAVERAGE and DMIN functions aren't working properly on that column because excel doesn't seem to recognize that the 0's are actually legitimate zero values and not just some sort of place holder.
Grrr.
Grrr.
November 30, 2008
November 26, 2008
Blogworthy/bragworthy
Not much is blog-worthy these days. Life consists of a lot of time spent doing anything but the homework I should be doing, a bit of dancing, not enough running (sort of fell off the wagon there for a week-at least Likalia has kept herself going with her treadmill) and some working.
Hence the lack of posts. I did get out on the weekend and took advantage of the late afternoon sun and wintery light to take some photos which you can see below this post.
Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention, if anyone has even noticed, that I never filled you in on my final costume decision for Hallowe'en. I was neither Puss in Boots nor A Figment of My Imagination. I just couldn't let go of the idea of wearing a really good skirt to dance in that night but I didn't feel like having the answer "what are you?" question every time someone looked at me so I compromised with myself and was a gypsy instead. I came to the conclusion that the skirt is even more fun for ballroom than it is for bellydance. I swear it has its own sense of musicality-so much fun! Despite the fact that my sewing machine and I seemed to have significantly different views on what is/is not acceptable sewing machine behaviour when trying to finish a costume 3 days before Hallowe'en, I did manage to come up with something reasonable. I do wonder though if there was any significance to the fact that the most interest in my costume attempt came from a fellow in an authentic Finnish folk dancing costume. Apparently I looked part eastern European and part Gypsy - not enough make-up for a Gypsy though. Lol.
Next year I plan on being a can-can girl in the most costume-y and showy and least historically accurate manner I can manage. We shall see how that turns out... ;)
Anyways, back to the nowhere I was going before I interrupted myself with that somewhat blog-worthy interlude...
Hmmm, that is actually the perfect segue into a discussion I had with Likalia during our photog wandering:
Is there a line between blog-worthy and bragging or can things be blog-worthy and brag-worthy without being bragging or is bragging just an inherent part of blogging?
This came up after talking about lack of things to post about and about dancing on the weekend at a dance with a guest instructor from Vancouver that was over to teach workshops and private lessons. I'm not the sort to go ask really accomplished dancers to dance-mostly because they are generally fairly busy with all the ladies who ARE asking them to dance...
Eventually there came a point at the end of the evening when he and I were, literally, the only ones left standing-er,sitting on his part-and the obvious thing to do was to take full advantage of the situation. "No" really doesn't hurt (that much) so I asked if he wanted to dance. He obliged-woohoo!-and I even managed to hold my own, which was satisfying. That in itself would have been a perfectly happy end to a reasonable evening. We talked a bit after the song ended and he asked me if I taught-
Me? teach? Noooo definitely not (I dont know enough for that), but being asked was totally the cherry on top of my evening! We danced another song and I was quite sad that that was the last one. I was thoroughly enjoying myself as I have never danced with anyone as proficient as he was. I was floating for the rest of the evening; what I would give to be equal to his ability...
And that's where the blog-worthy/brag-worthy/bragging trichotomy comes in. How do I write about it without it sounding like straight up "listen to this" and "aren't I great!?"
Haven't come to a conclusion about that yet so I'm going back to typing up my group's management project...
Hence the lack of posts. I did get out on the weekend and took advantage of the late afternoon sun and wintery light to take some photos which you can see below this post.
Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention, if anyone has even noticed, that I never filled you in on my final costume decision for Hallowe'en. I was neither Puss in Boots nor A Figment of My Imagination. I just couldn't let go of the idea of wearing a really good skirt to dance in that night but I didn't feel like having the answer "what are you?" question every time someone looked at me so I compromised with myself and was a gypsy instead. I came to the conclusion that the skirt is even more fun for ballroom than it is for bellydance. I swear it has its own sense of musicality-so much fun! Despite the fact that my sewing machine and I seemed to have significantly different views on what is/is not acceptable sewing machine behaviour when trying to finish a costume 3 days before Hallowe'en, I did manage to come up with something reasonable. I do wonder though if there was any significance to the fact that the most interest in my costume attempt came from a fellow in an authentic Finnish folk dancing costume. Apparently I looked part eastern European and part Gypsy - not enough make-up for a Gypsy though. Lol.Next year I plan on being a can-can girl in the most costume-y and showy and least historically accurate manner I can manage. We shall see how that turns out... ;)
Anyways, back to the nowhere I was going before I interrupted myself with that somewhat blog-worthy interlude...
Hmmm, that is actually the perfect segue into a discussion I had with Likalia during our photog wandering:
Is there a line between blog-worthy and bragging or can things be blog-worthy and brag-worthy without being bragging or is bragging just an inherent part of blogging?
This came up after talking about lack of things to post about and about dancing on the weekend at a dance with a guest instructor from Vancouver that was over to teach workshops and private lessons. I'm not the sort to go ask really accomplished dancers to dance-mostly because they are generally fairly busy with all the ladies who ARE asking them to dance...
Eventually there came a point at the end of the evening when he and I were, literally, the only ones left standing-er,sitting on his part-and the obvious thing to do was to take full advantage of the situation. "No" really doesn't hurt (that much) so I asked if he wanted to dance. He obliged-woohoo!-and I even managed to hold my own, which was satisfying. That in itself would have been a perfectly happy end to a reasonable evening. We talked a bit after the song ended and he asked me if I taught-
Me? teach? Noooo definitely not (I dont know enough for that), but being asked was totally the cherry on top of my evening! We danced another song and I was quite sad that that was the last one. I was thoroughly enjoying myself as I have never danced with anyone as proficient as he was. I was floating for the rest of the evening; what I would give to be equal to his ability...
And that's where the blog-worthy/brag-worthy/bragging trichotomy comes in. How do I write about it without it sounding like straight up "listen to this" and "aren't I great!?"
Haven't come to a conclusion about that yet so I'm going back to typing up my group's management project...
November 23, 2008
November 3, 2008
Statistics
I would like to know why learning statistical methods in a quantitative methods course (where I was already supposed to know the stats methods) was so much easier than learning the same thing in the statistics course.
Sometimes it's a good thing not to do the prerequisite courses first-no wonder everyone was so intimidated by all the stats in the quants course. Oiy.
Sometimes it's a good thing not to do the prerequisite courses first-no wonder everyone was so intimidated by all the stats in the quants course. Oiy.
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