2011: The Beginning
It’s already nearly half-way through February. Does that shock you? A lot has happened in my year so far, but I don’t think I was quite prepared for the fact that it is truly well underway. This is essentially my first week back at work for the year after being away for 2 weeks (I did work 3 weeks in January, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it counts). The two weeks were a fairly intensive sprint of family time, and family time and more family time. I have a lot of family, so it takes quite a bit of time and energy to really spend quality time with everyone, or as many people as possible. It was really refreshing though, not in a physical sense because I am certainly tired, but in a re-centering sense. I feel as if I have been able to reconnect with family and re-centre the value of family in my life – which is quite invigorating.
While the family time away had the most impact, there are a couple of other things that I’ve been doing that have helped as well. Nearing the end of 2010, I decided that I wanted to make a few changes in my life, or tick off a few of the things that I keep saying I want to do and yet haven’t done. The first was to apply to put in two pieces of art into an art competition – I didn’t really care whether I would win or not, it is more that I have wanted to do something of this kind for a while. The other big decision I made was to enroll back into Uni. Which I have done – into a graduate course in applied statistics. I have wanted to move out of the IT field for a while. My interest in it becomes less and less as the years move on, so this is one step towards moving out of the field. I’m pretty excited.
I also have a number of other plans for the year which I hope will work out, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Happy Birthday Girllll!
You are going to all lengths of communication! Haha thanks dude!
I always find it interesting reading your posts Chara… I find out so much about you I didn’t know before! Like art! Wow… good on you putting your art in a comp. All the best. For a minute there I thought you were going to say you’ll study art. What do you do in applied statistics (because if it isn’t well applied, wouldn’t it be boring?!)
Anyway, all the best for 2011 with your goals and changes. It was nice to see you at one of those family events.
Applied Statistics in my understanding is the application and analysis of statistic principles that are defined in mathematical statistics areas – if that makes any sense. It isn’t about the hard maths – it is rather about designing polls and surveys that will provide you with the correct data you need, and how to analyse that data to get the information you need. And yes, you’re right, if it isn’t applied statistics, I would find it quite boring.
Thanks for the note, it was good to see you too!