Today I’m stuck doing a bit of data analysis that I think is useless, but it’s faster to do the analysis and show how pointless it is than to explain to my advisor why it’s pointless.  Plus, there’s a teeny teeny tiny chance I’m wrong in my predictions about the outcome.  That would be embarrassing.

While I’m kicking around some Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation data, you could be reading much more interesting things than this blog, like Clarissa’s Blog.  Here’s a funny teaching anecdote and a book review with some very insightful comments on female authors to get you started.