Well it is currently spring break in the land of no rain, except a day in which I want to go to a baseball game. While the game wasn't rain delayed, it did feature unusually cool weather and the potential for rain. Not that rain is not needed, however, why did it have to wait until I had time off until shitty weather came in. Well I guess it has left me more opportunities to play catch-up. Pathetically enough, I am the only one in the department now, just like I was the last one in the department last night and the night before. However, I'll show them, I will (If I wasn't using both hands to type, I would be shaking a fist). Actually the weather should be getting nicer and I will catch a game later this week.

In other news, I decided to pick up the Name of the Rose again by Umberto Eco. I found an absolutely terrific line that I would like to share here:

"I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo, who in the forest of Rieti lived as a hermit and boasted of having received directly from the Holy Spirit the revelation that the carnal act was not a sin--so he seduced his victims, whom he called sisters, forcing them to submit to the lash on their naked flesh, making five genuflections on the ground in the form of a cross, before he presented them to God and claimed from them what he called the kiss of peace (Ed. Note: The Kiss of Peace is often referred to as the Sign of Peace in mass)."

So in the last year, I have discovered three pickup lines that I think could produce interesting results:

(1) Hey, God has given me the command to give you the kiss of peace.
(2) I wish I was a derivative so I could be tangent to all of your curves.
(3) I must be your indicator function because you have turned me on.

So I imagine one of two things happening after saying one of these lines to a woman
(1) I get slapped
(2) I get slapped and then hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit

Well, that's enough fun for one day, back to the grind. By the way, I'll have my rough draft of my research paper done in about 2 weeks, at which point I'll post it on my website. Besides not paying attention to the man behind the curtain, don't criticize the fact that my rough draft most likely will not utilize two-stage least squares for my regression results.

-Trevor