I installed a cat trap in my home office so I don't get cute pics like that anymore, but I do get a lot of this alternate cuteness.

Schimel is the oldest of mine! Loaned both to a coworker recently. For the record, we leave a lot of books lying around and this is only the 2nd one Rubi's gone after like this; you should definitely be flattered 😂

This makes me actively want you to be queen of the world

I was very disappointed when I saw the proofs! 😆

Accepted version (not journal version) of analysis plan paper is on researchgate. Happy to email the nice-looking journal version if you want it. They took out all my Oxford commas though, sadface.

1. Broman and Woo 2018, Data Organization in Spreadsheets. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2. Self-plug for Cressman and Sharp 2022, Crafting Statistical Analysis Plans onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I was almost too distracted by the adorable floof, but then I saw Regression and Other Stories! And Regression Modeling Strategies.

Oh, so cute! 😍 And clearly already owning the space!

Non-fiction, cont.
How the Word is Passed - powerful; about how slavery is presented at historical establishments

The Escape Artist - as in, the man who successfully escaped Auschwitz
10/10

Non-fiction:
Endurance - HOLY CRAP I knew everyone survived but was still on the edge of my seat the whole time

The Wager - another 'holy crap everybody survives' story 9/10

Fiction faves:
House in the Cerulean Sea - feels like a warm hug

Project Hail Mary - made me realize I can like sci-fi

Murderbot series 

The Expanse series - long books = intimidating, but give it a page. If it sucks you in, you're in.

Chet and Bernie series - mysteries, NARRATED BY A DOG 8/

It has led to numbers though - over 100 books in 2023! More often the 70-80 range. This year is my slowest since starting; I'll probably end up around 50. But it's about the habit, not the numbers, and I'm really enjoying the habit! 7/

Just like the lack of a numeric goal, and the one paragraph thing, it's about keeping the pressure off. 6/

Abandoning books that aren't working for me is freeing. I didn't used to; but if I start to dread reading time, it's time to let that book go. This has made me unafraid to try different types of books - and I've found a lot of good ones by being willing to *not* lock myself into them. 5/

I don't think I've ever actually stopped at a paragraph. Sometimes Hubs is super sleepy and ends up reading the same paragraph multiple nights in a row. Whatever, it counts. 4/

Our only rules are, it has to be a book (doesn't matter what kind); and you have to read at least a paragraph (can be a one-line paragraph; still counts). "I have to read my paragraph" is totally doable no matter how tired we are, and usually we end up reading more. 3/

At the end of 2018 I was listening to a podcast where people were discussing their reading goals - as in, number of books - for 2019. A numeric goal seemed too stressful for me, so I made the goal "read every night." And started in Nov. 2018. Hubs got on board sometime in 2019. 2/

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