A month, in countdown form

As T.S. Eliot once said, "April is the cruellest month..." I shall now prove this statement with a very high tech analysis.

Days until department wide seminar - 1

Days until my license plates come in - 3

Days until my license plates are due - 4 (cutting it close!)

Days until defense -5

Days until stats 12 is due - 7

Days until I am 25 - 11

Days until stats final exam - 29

Days until I leave SC - 30

Good news! Clemson came in 5th place at the national timbersports competition this year! Amongst other things, we won a new cross cut saw (custom made in Redding, CA) worth nearly $1500.00! Also our women's cross cut team came in 2nd-- a girl who was in my IPM course last year competed-- she's one of my favorite people in the department, really works hard and is legit, so I was glad a lot of points attributed to her!

Other commentary: S's comment on the defense was "go home and sleep; I'll tell you not to worry about it this weekend too much, but I know you won't sleep, and that's good for you. You shouldn't sleep the night before your defense." So I think that's good? I guess I'll find out. One of my buddies passed his defense today, and I think a lot of folks from wildlife are coming to my seminar tomorrow-- that's good because they aren't very into "finance" so if they question me it should be pretty easy stuff to answer. I feel like my stuff stands okay on the forestry and econ sides, but I deliberately avoided language like "basis" because I'm not very clear about how the taxation works on urban properties. City tree ordinances are a huge bear.