Dork alert:
I just cant believe that I work here. I am working on a survival estimation project and working with three guys who's paper's I've been reading for years years now. The first time I met one of them 6 years ago we were using his text book in my statistics class at the time and I was all nervous cause I thought I was meeting a celebrity. Now I see and work with him on a weekly basis. PINCH ME!

I spent the week in Shepherdstown West Virginia last week. It was quite nice to awake each morning to the sounds of Wood Thrush and Eastern Towhee singing in the forest. I missed home something fierce though. WV is not nearly as shitty as I have been led to believe. All I've ever done there is drive on through as quickly as possible on my way to some place important and pretty...like Missouri. HA! That was hilarious! Get it cause Missouri is neither important or pretty. Its' not even a battle ground state anymore cause all the ultra-Christians are out breeding the reasonable and rational people. I digress...the point is, West Virginia isn't a total shit hole.