night club. 

The weekend was fast and intense. It started at 3:30p on Friday when I had to race home to put on a suit to make it to a wedding in Central Park. The ceremony was pleasant and the rain stayed … Continue reading →

Ahem. “Woo-Woo.”

Almost done with The Pressure of the last couple of weeks. I’m running a staff-wide evaluation assignment and will present it at the staff meeting tomorrow morning. It should be OK, though it’s an extremely challenging task. I’m not into … Continue reading →

Full weekend, worked most of Sunday with a colleague to get ready for a potentially disastrous staff development meeting on Thursday. I’m designing an assignment of the whole staff to do that involves qualitatively evaluating student work inside of one … Continue reading →

The data analytic meeting yesterday was a mixed bag. I made one fairly obvious error that I needed to talk my way around, but the rest of the data seems to have gone over pretty well. My recommendations are being … Continue reading →

Late night working, and a great sleep till 8a before a nice fast shower and a hustle to the staff meeting. The meeting was great, as was the one immediately following. My next big thing today is at 3p, a … Continue reading →

I was working until nearly 1a last night, in the office. Very peaceful, but constant background stress of knowing there’s a long road ahead on this analytic project. I smoked some. When I got home, I downed some water and … Continue reading →

Make sure you know who your project partner is. I was given three for this one project– a computational modeler, a statistician and an epidemiologist. We worked hard and long on building a model of a complex system. Then we … Continue reading →

It’s Monday and I’m racing. I had a cold that lingered for a couple of days over the weekend and resulted in some excellent sleeps. The best thing about a cold is the sleep you get. Especially the dreams. Mine … Continue reading →