Thesis

I met with my professor last night before class so we could go over some of his notes on my methods paper. He told me that he's "confident that I'll write a wonderful paper and won't have any trouble at all". Then he waxed poetic about how this is a great project, and that my employer is really lucky to have someone like me doing this research.

Heh, that doesn't really comfort me or make me more confident about having my preliminary data analysis done by 7:00 tomorrow :)

He also suggested I expand my analysis. Look at the full calendar year of 2003, then Jan-Mar of 2003 and then Jan-Mar of 2004 and compare regression results from all three data sets. Great. So I'm doing the same work three times and creating 3x the work for this paper. I see his point - it will be a richer analysis. I'm not really looking forward to all of this work though. I don't care to publish so I'm doing this for the credits. Ah well, can't let the "boss" (and program head) down, can I?

So in case anyone hasn't gotten it - I'm kind of out of commission until early/mid May.