Statistics with booze on a Saturday.

Glass of water, a 12-oz can of Seattle Cider Vivid light cider, peach flavor. With an empty glass, a green background, and an alarm clock with red text displaying 10 pm and unreadable, distorted integer.

Sometimes, booze makes homework easier

I am currently taking statistics this college quarter. I’ve been keeping up so far, four weeks in. Until this week. Ive been behind in the work, and grinding, catching up. We’re currently covering binomial probability and poisson probability functions.

I’ve struggled to understand these concepts this week. . Monday I skipped class because I had a presentation and assumed that I could make up the work on my own. Which was logical to assume, because half the class is online. And is work I have to do on my own.

I was wrong. This week was a doozy.

This wasn’t a problem to date. I’ve been scraping by so far, keeping up with the work in this statistics class. Until the first exam. Which I only earned 65%. My professor allows us to make up points with corrections, so I can make up that 5 points to reach that desired minimum of 2.0 or 70% on the exam grade.

Everything but the exam grade in this class is going well. While I am to achieve the highest grade as possible in every class I take, if the best I can do is 70/2.0 to pass, that is what I can do… So be it.

I do the best I can with the time & energy I have…

On a given day, I have varying amounts of energy, concentration, and ability to do tasks. Another way to describe this is called spoons. I only have so much ability to do things, say like a brain compared to a battery to accomplish tasks.

This Saturday, May 10th, 2025, I’m struggling to complete homework.

I’ve been grinding all day to complete a math homework assignment for statistics class so I can catch up to where I need to be.

As compared to a typical Saturday, this isn’t that unusual. A typical Saturday for me is to not to do any homework, and just relax because my body and mind are spent. I’m physically and mentally exhausted. Drained and in pain.

This day, I had to forgo this rest, and push through to catch up on homework.

After 10 or so hours, I’m finally caught up on understanding binomial and passion probability functions.

I got pretty far on fumes and gumption to get work done

Im not an alcoholic anymore, however, I do have a weakness on occasion for booze.

Recently, I’ve been craving a tasty red wine, a bourbon, or a different amaretto from Disaronno.

Drinking yesterday helped me grind through the last half of the homework questions and finish studying an especially mind-scratching section of material. I couldn’t start on the following three assignments without understanding the next section.

It worked.

I don’t plan on making this a regular thing as I don’t like drinking too often. This worked this time because I was utterly spent after a challenging week of studying and my usual complete exhaustion on Saturdays.

Now, I’m finally caught up and done. What a long week!

One response to “Statistics with booze on a Saturday.”

Al Wayman

May 12, 2025 at 7:06 am

Great job getting caught up. I am in the process of building a kiln on my days off at the big paper factory 12 hour rotating shift between nights and days. I had this weekend off and work on the wood kiln I am building. I had to haul and stack brick. Kiln brick are very heavy but got it done to meet my goal with the build. I hope to work more on it in a few days. Hope your class goes well! Always try to make the good better. No need to be perfect.

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