week in review

whoa. long time, no blog. time to rectify that. hehehe, rectify. this, in a nutshell, is my first week of gradschool in review. out-of-town visitors: 5 (patty, ella, kelly, kaitiln, mom) in-town visitors: 4 movies watched: 3 (spellbound, butterfly effect, bridgit jones' diary) pages read: 1,750 pages understood: 7 chapters read: 25 or 27, depending on your count chapters sworn over: at least 22 times dave uttered the phrase: "i can't believe the amount of work we have to do": 5 times I uttered the above phrase in the same amount of time: 10 sets of bookshelves assembled: 3 number of books on shelves: 900 plus or minus number of books still waiting to be shelved: 200 plus or minus times I've considered scrapping the whole grad school thing and going into business as a used book salesman: 3 greek mathematicians I have read about this week: 35 number I had heard of before: 2 number of their names that I can pronounce: 0 class days I can survive if I have to continue reading about greek mathematicians: 1/2 meals brooke has prepared in the last week or so: 25 number of times I've done dishes afterwards: 1 number of times I've used homework as an excuse to get out of doing dishes: 24 pages of reading to do before class today: 50 percent of those pages relating to greek mathematicians: 100% pages of reading to do before class wednesday: approx. 400 times i will look incredulously at the number of pages i have to read before i actually sit down to read them: 7 times i will close my eyes and mutter "it's only a dream...it's only a dream" before opening my eyes and noting that, in fact, it is not a dream: 3 times that b will remind me that significant things around the house like painting, putting together and moving furniture, and fixing the sink still need to get done: 9 times i will attempt to do those things rather than read: 5 amount of time spent on those projects before giving up: 11 minutes amount of time spent worrying about how I am going to do all the reading: 1 hr., 25 mins. amount of time spent reading: 29 to 36 hours length of time I retain the information I just read: 19 seconds and that, my friends, is a week in review. any questions?