Hardly Working

It's Friday.  A time where one typically rejoices about the week coming to a close and a place to begin celebrating the weekend ahead.  As for this week, I don't have that luxury.  Now, I know most of you are thinking "you're a teacher, you've had the whole summer off!"  While you may be correct you may not know that I've spent the last week in a graduate Statistics III class dis-aggregating data and researching for my dissertation due in April.  Everyday.  All week.  8 to 4,  I've done all of this while fighting off some kind of sickness and preparing for a triathlon this weekend.  AND, I have the pleasure of spending all of next week in Calculus class.  Everyday.  8 to 4. With hours of homework.  Allow me to wallow in self pity for a brief moment...

A Masters Degree is no joke, especially a Masters Degree in Mathematics.  But at the same time I need to be completely honest and say don't let me fool you.  I've spent a great deal of time slacking off this week.  And an immense amount of time eating.  But that part shouldn't be a huge surprise.

I've spent the majority of my week in the University of Vermont library sifting through articles and journals about the relationship between math vocabulary and achievement scores.   However, I have also been listening to the Crossfit Games currently taking place in Carson, California.  Like I could focus at a time like this!  If you've never checked out the Crossfit games, head over to games.crossfit.com or ESPN3 and catch a peak at what these athletes are doing!  Saying my attention has been slightly skewed would be an understatement. And as I sit in the library right now blogging away, I am again reminded that I am still not on task. I'm working for sure, but hardly.  Hardly working.  It's Friday.  I'm burnt out and stressed out.  And if I have to look at one more regression model, scatter plot, residual, or p-value I might lose it.  Or I'll claw my eyes out for simply sounding like the math nerd I've been forced to become.

Stay tuned for results from the triathlon and what I expect to be more agonizing tales of Calculus.