One more week

This weekend sucks. I thought I had things planned out, but it all fell apart in the end, so I spent two days on my own. Watching some DVDs, catching up with some work, reading some magazines, etc. I am hoping next weekend will be better.

The work is still the good old work. I am definitely getting more comfortable with the types of work we do: a lot of estimates and thinking on the feet. Good-bye, my 95% confidence interval, I do not expect to meet you any time soon again. On the other hand, as the problem-solving on the project gets more and more to the end, I find my way of thinking fits better and better. That's something to feel good about.

Talking about confidence interval, I got an R&R for my paper from Social Forces. Now I have two single-authored R&R in pockets, and I just do not bother to do it any more. Just want to put it out here, in case my readers want to jump on my bandwagon and do the rest of shitty work and co-author these two papers. One about educational stratification 1949-1978, and the other about elite competition 1949-1996.

As you may already know, I am quite narcissistic. I Google myself once a while, So I typed in "Songhua Hu" today and found that I am beating out the lake of "Songhua Hu" as well as a "Dr. Songhua Hu," Chair of Animal Sciences from Zhejiang University. Pretty cool to stay ahead of animal researchers. Of course, the one that followed is my "pimp my date" site. Here is the whole thing why I Googled myself. I got an email today from a friend, asking whether the website was a joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a joke. It is also my problem, because I can never say it is NOT a joke. I am not sure how I am feeling about being single at the age of 30. I can see an irony here. I believe I am okay with it, but at the same time I suspect that it is a lie that I have rationally convinced myself to be okay with. For me being myself, I can never sort out this simple puzzle. I hope I am not confuse you here. Long story short, I am convinced that sometimes people Google my name (or that Dr. animal research). It makes me feel I am still relevant in some way.

There are two friends visiting me this week, one from William's College and one all the way from California. It is good to be with friends, and hey, thanks for visiting.