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Sunday, January 13th, 2008 01:31 am
I'm going to bed. But first I want to express that I am a silly girl because I have been up reading amateur fiction and trying to make a database thing. I have had no education whatever in making database things.

I'm not even sure it is the tool I want. I want to follow up on some impressions I have about what sorts of amateur fiction writers write what sorts of elements into their stories. So I want to do what amounts to simple regressions, which I learned how to do and forgot how to do before there was such a thing as a computer on every desk. My statistics textbook is at least eight feet above my head and I do not care enough to climb up there.

On another front, I did write a little. And it's going better, maybe.

And on still another front, Frank tells me they have balls, in which the professors march in while a band plays music, and then professional dancers demonstrate waltzes and foxtrots and tangos, and then they have three dance floors with different live and recorded music and people do the macarena and stuff. He wore his brown suit and was underdressed, but so were some of the others.

He had a ball. I couldn't resist saying that.
Monday, January 14th, 2008 12:14 am (UTC)
Frank hasn't posted recently! Did he get tired of maiden aunt posts?
Monday, January 14th, 2008 01:00 am (UTC)
No, he's just been working really really hard. Yesterday was the first I'd heard from him since New Year's Day -- which is not long in the scheme of things but we usually have a couple of email exchanges and a couple of IM chats each week.

Also, he's been participating in gaming board discussions again, which is a time sink and much like blogging when he does it. We can only hope he isn't tempted to spend too much time on the boards.

He has at least four really hard classes involing a lot of memorization (Latin, Czech, Anatomy, Histology). Fortunately, I think the other three are pretty easy for him (chemistry, physics, medical ethics).

Lately, whenever I respond to a comment by clicking the link in my email, I get an error message that I tried to post a blank message before I post or even type the comment. This does not interfere with my ability to post, but it is perplexing.
Monday, January 14th, 2008 01:07 am (UTC)
Well, I'm glad it's because he's too busy!

My guess about the comment response -- does your email require only a single click to launch the URL and you're double-clicking?