Thursday, February 01, 2007

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

"After this, therefore because of this"

It's been raining for days. Pretty much since the semester started, it has rained the majority of days of each week. So since the semester started, it has rained - therefore the semester starting caused the rain. Sounds like a fairly logical argument, right? Maybe not.

Here's a picture from Darius and Acacia's wedding reception. This is right before Darius removed the garter and then had to throw it, not once, but twice (they don't go very far). The bouquet toss was between 4 women, and the garter toss was between roughly 12 men. Fortunately for all involved - there were relatively few injuries and the couple that ended up with the garter and bouquet were dating -- so I think we can expect them to get married before most of the rest of us. It was also at this wedding that Paul and I realized that out of our cohort of musketeers so to speak, that he and I are the last two who are not married. I sadly didn't get to stick around too long, since the reception was Saturday and I had to be back Sunday in order to get my thesis together, learn neuroanatomy for a quiz, and do all of the normal things graduate students do. For the most part, there is no way to read everything that is assigned in graduate school (says the guy who's typing this blog instead of reading statistics), so there's a lot of picking and choosing - trying to figure out what will really matter 20 years from now - or more likely what the professor will ask in class as he's looking directly at you. I have a number of fun books to read (at the top is "The Tipping Point" by the author of blink), but I'll hold off starting them until I get at least a little bit ahead in my classes.

Anyway, lots of adventures coming up - so hopefully more interesting blog posts soon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You need another post!@! Stop slacking!