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Well, well, well...here WE are again in the same place as before. No word on the passport yet, but still looking forward to an awesome trip. Nothing much else has changed except I have a new RA task of finding time series data on infant mortality rates for several countries...in addition to figuring a way to program MLE in Stata without a canned ( Read more... )

Nothing of real social import occurs in my life from day to day. It is due to the fact that I do not make it of course, I put all my focus on school and working, but through it all I seem to be able to create good times ( Read more... )

Well, registration is upon us students like the humidity is upon everyone on a hot summer day in New Orleans. It sticks to you, it rubs up against you, it pushes you from the back while blocking you in the front. It weighs us down, especially the tuition payment. There is some sweetness to the story because it should be the last tuition payment ( Read more... )

Upon waking, and partaking of the best depression food I have come across (sandwiches, no thought to make and even less to eat, no condiments, bread,cheese,meat, and a half minute in the microwave), I finished out some Astaire movie on TV. Animal crackers attempting to do some soft-shoe upon my tongue, trying to miss the gnashing of the teeth. ( Read more... )

Cross-sections of the earth's crust can appear as a rainbow of history, a time-line of things that were, a compacted scrapbook which has lost its legend. There are not the slightest remnants of initials left by lovers, not even Aborigine smiley faces which were the ancestors of our present images of instant emotions are hanging around. There are ( Read more... )