ummm, i have a lot to tell you about the day, but i just got back from the cardinals game and i averaged a beer an inning and i don’t think i can put together a decent blog post right now. so you’ll have to just wait until tomorrow night to see the pictures from the cardinals game.

Adam and Mark????

Today was an intense work day. I did five interviews and attended only one session. The session of course was the Statistical Analysis section, but I got to introduce myself to the group and got a bunch of names for potential interviews. So while it was a very productive day, I am quite exhausted. I’m not sure if it was the cherry coke that I had at 9PM, but I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night, so I was extremely tired when I started the day. I am also tired because I have basically been drinking all day. I bought all of my interview subjects a drink and naturally, I had one myself. Luckily, it was spread out through the day, so it didn’t interfere with the actual interviews. Crap….I just got a call and I have to go do an interview.

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…and I came here alone!

I decided to use today as a exploring day. Since I ended up getting in late, there were only a couple of sessions left anyways, so I decided to go to the sessions that I could and then I had an phone interview at 7. So I didn’t really get to press any flesh, but I figure that tomorrow at the Statistics section meeting, I’ll have the chance to get my name out there. I kinda wish I had the foresight to have business cards made, but there’s nothing to do about it now. Anyways, I’ll try to outline my day with a photo essay.

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In case you can’t tell, the view from my hotel room includes the big arch.

Sorry that I haven’t been updating much, but to be honest, not much has been going on. I’ve interviewed a few more people over the phone, but I’m now here in St. Louis for the big conference. I just got into the hotel room after missing my first flight this morning. This post is going to be a quickie, as I need to go check in at the conference and then start pressing flesh to try and get some interviews scheduled. Anyways, I’m going to try to write a post at least once a day while I’m here to keep you posted on what’s happening from both the dissertation point of view, and from a more personal travel log point of view. It’s been a while since I’ve traveled by myself and I’ve never been to St. Louis before, so hopefully I’ll get to explore the city a little bit. And as I’ve mentioned before, I do want to capture some of the more personal moments of the dissertation process and I think this is a perfect example of something that is a little bit personal but still interesting for posterity’s sake. Anyways, I need to get going, but expect frequent updates about my experiences from the conference in the next three days.