Little Things...

I didn't get my STAT 510 lab back this morning when everyone was passing around the stack and taking theirs out. At first I thought that maybe someone else named Jeff had taken mine. I gave the whole stack to Fan sitting next to me and decided I'd wait till after class to worry about it. Then I realized that more likely is that I just didn't hand it in. So I looked through my folder, and after a minute or so, realized that I had done the entire lab and just not handed it in. What a waste of time! I felt like a complete idiot. Oh well.

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"Your brother called me today and i was really afraid he was going to say something bad happened to you. it was surreal, just for a minute, and i had a feeling that is what i suspect i'd feel like if i found out i had just died, or something close to that. just wanted to share. he called me by accident. i love you"

Peace out.

Typo Negative

I went to a debate today between Karl Rove and Howard Dean focused on health care reform. At one point Rove made a comment deriding the fact that if we had a public plan/insurance plan in general, then you would be subsidizing other people's plans. Other people had been shouting a lot during the debate, so I figured whatever, so could I! Of course, the whole point of an insurance plan is that you do subsidize other people's costs, so I said, "That's the point of insurance!" It wasn't too loud and it didn't disrupt his speaking.

The woman in front of me, who was clearly on the other side of the political spectrum, turned around and snarkily asked, "How old are you?" As if a 21-year-old can't have informed opinions on politics, or understand how insurance works, even though my major is the mathematics of insurance. I could have said 21, but that would have been letting her win, and I wasn't quick enough to think of the correct response, which was "Old enough to know how insurance works," so instead I just asked back snarkily, "How old are you?" She said, "Forty-seven," and I said, "Good. Great. Good for you." And that was that.

I wish I were quicker with things like this.

Peace out.