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dancerjodi) wrote2004-03-25 08:37 am
dancerjodi) wrote2004-03-25 08:37 am
The good, the bad, the boring
I just paid a lot of bills which is good I guess - got some things out of the way early since I had cash left over from last week. Not having to send $530 per month to Nstar to heat our house will be nice.
Self inflicted denial of seeing "The Man"
Related to this, I was planning on getting tickets for Brian and I to see Prince in August at the Fleet Center (they go on sale this Saturday morning). Now, while I could spend the $200 I think sending that to Chase would be much better. We have more credit debt than I'd really like to have and I'd like to chip away at it more (this has been a continuous goal of mine but its been kind of difficult what with fixing up our house and paying tuition bills). So no Prince for the dancer. Its too bad really - this may end up being his last tour. I did order 2 tix for the Rush show also in August (Xany and I will be going and have some not-so-bad seats, yay!).
Cronbach's Alpha and Pearson's Chi-Square and Multiple Regression oh my!:
Our class last night involved sitting in a computer lab and playing with our own data sets, doing re-coding, brainstorming on which statistics we'll use, and watching one of the professors wax poetic about the various types of graphs that are in reports. I have to rework the way I'm doing my analysis a bit, since looking at the data at the PCP level of measurement doesn't give me enough cases to be statistically significant (we only have 37 PCPs under this Managed Care Contract). It kind of sucks that the whole "out of sight, out of mind" thing happens to me with mathematics. I'm really great at the nuances of statistics when I'm in the middle of a course for it but its been a year. I'll have to spend a lot of time reviewing and playing with SPSS at home. I know the concepts - I just have to get the operational part of it down again.
Yes, so this will be a nutso weekend. A Midterm, a huge paper and a smaller paper all due next week. On top of that we need to get our house ready for the open house on 4/4 (tonight it will be official - we're meeting with our realtor to sign papers to sell).
Quote of the day:
"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney
Self inflicted denial of seeing "The Man"
Related to this, I was planning on getting tickets for Brian and I to see Prince in August at the Fleet Center (they go on sale this Saturday morning). Now, while I could spend the $200 I think sending that to Chase would be much better. We have more credit debt than I'd really like to have and I'd like to chip away at it more (this has been a continuous goal of mine but its been kind of difficult what with fixing up our house and paying tuition bills). So no Prince for the dancer. Its too bad really - this may end up being his last tour. I did order 2 tix for the Rush show also in August (Xany and I will be going and have some not-so-bad seats, yay!).
Cronbach's Alpha and Pearson's Chi-Square and Multiple Regression oh my!:
Our class last night involved sitting in a computer lab and playing with our own data sets, doing re-coding, brainstorming on which statistics we'll use, and watching one of the professors wax poetic about the various types of graphs that are in reports. I have to rework the way I'm doing my analysis a bit, since looking at the data at the PCP level of measurement doesn't give me enough cases to be statistically significant (we only have 37 PCPs under this Managed Care Contract). It kind of sucks that the whole "out of sight, out of mind" thing happens to me with mathematics. I'm really great at the nuances of statistics when I'm in the middle of a course for it but its been a year. I'll have to spend a lot of time reviewing and playing with SPSS at home. I know the concepts - I just have to get the operational part of it down again.
Yes, so this will be a nutso weekend. A Midterm, a huge paper and a smaller paper all due next week. On top of that we need to get our house ready for the open house on 4/4 (tonight it will be official - we're meeting with our realtor to sign papers to sell).
Quote of the day:
"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney
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Amen!
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Now comes April 15, estimated taxes (and hoping I don't owe any from last year), and then on May first, $2,000 Arlington real estate tax, payment 1 of 4. What's my point? Oh, nothing, just comisserating. :-)
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