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It's still strawberry season
Jun. 4th, 2015 02:38 pmThe only disadvantage of friending memes and meeting new people is that for a short time afterwards I feel very self-conscious about posting anything. Well, slightly more than normal. I keep telling myself I don't have to be, but that's only somewhat successful.
Today and yesterday were not good days and very unproductive, I spent basically the whole time reading fic. Technically also original fiction, so the correct term would be stories, but it felt more like reading fic than reading books. At least the weather is currently excellent so yesterday I spent half the day sitting in the garden with my ebook reader, it was great. (Today I felt too guilty about procrastinating to sit outside, so instead I sat in my room in front of my laptop and still didn't get anything done.)
Speaking of things I want to get done (i.e. finishing my bachelor thesis), working with data can be SO ANNOYING. Right now I'm mostly working with data from the Russian statistics agency and from the OECD, and both of them are extremely frustrating, for different reasons. Things like "this result is mathematically impossible" (OECD), "wait do you seriously not say where the data for certain countries comes from" (OECD), "I know you deliberately calculate your quotas in this weird way to make the numbers look prettier and it's really annoying" (Rosstat), "why do you have this data for all years from 1999-2013 except 2004, what happened in 2004" (Rosstat) - why is this so much more complicated than it needs to be? Data and where it comes from can be so interesting, but atm I don't have the time or opportunity to look into this so it's just frustrating. That and the fact that I know good data on basically everything I need exists (the RLMS), but I can't access it. (Also analyzing it would probably be too much work.)
This weekend we're planning another Bab5 session, finally \o/
Today and yesterday were not good days and very unproductive, I spent basically the whole time reading fic. Technically also original fiction, so the correct term would be stories, but it felt more like reading fic than reading books. At least the weather is currently excellent so yesterday I spent half the day sitting in the garden with my ebook reader, it was great. (Today I felt too guilty about procrastinating to sit outside, so instead I sat in my room in front of my laptop and still didn't get anything done.)
Speaking of things I want to get done (i.e. finishing my bachelor thesis), working with data can be SO ANNOYING. Right now I'm mostly working with data from the Russian statistics agency and from the OECD, and both of them are extremely frustrating, for different reasons. Things like "this result is mathematically impossible" (OECD), "wait do you seriously not say where the data for certain countries comes from" (OECD), "I know you deliberately calculate your quotas in this weird way to make the numbers look prettier and it's really annoying" (Rosstat), "why do you have this data for all years from 1999-2013 except 2004, what happened in 2004" (Rosstat) - why is this so much more complicated than it needs to be? Data and where it comes from can be so interesting, but atm I don't have the time or opportunity to look into this so it's just frustrating. That and the fact that I know good data on basically everything I need exists (the RLMS), but I can't access it. (Also analyzing it would probably be too much work.)
This weekend we're planning another Bab5 session, finally \o/
