Random Stuff XLIII

[6_bleen_7]

I’ve been teaching a graduate-level course for three weeks now, and it’s nearly wiping me out. Whenever I get a free hour or two, I spend it comatose, in a desperate attempt to pay off the compound interest on my sleep debt. I don’t know what I’d do if my boss hadn’t kindly left me her lecture notes and old assignments

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[6_bleen_7]

Aw, gosh, thanks! This semester it's not stage fright (with the exception of the first lecture), but rather the amount of preparation that goes into my lectures. You're familiar with how much work goes into an hour lecture. I have to prepare three times that much material every week. It does help that I'm teaching squarely within my field of expertise. Who knows what I'd be like if I had to teach, say, population genetics.

The weird part is that they have no lack of fresh water; I change it daily, and rinse out the bowl long enough that the water they actually get originated about a quarter mile down the pipe. And they do drink it. I guess it's like eating government cheese: it fills the belly, but there's no joy in it.

As you know, BMI only predicts health at the population level, and even there not very well, though it's better than nothing. GDI may do the same, though it seems to me more individual-specific. I think the scale is about correct for measuring batshit-craziness, with the exception that I'd've weighted denial of science somewhat higher.