Made it through the first 2 hr. 40 min. class period. Only 10 more of those to go!

Now I'm trying to read a paper on spatial statistics. I wonder if everyone who works in a particular field that they have to read reports, or articles, or whatever, have "scare words" that make their brain shut down. Because I know I do.

"Variogram". Shuuuuuddddder. I knew what that was, once. The phrase "partitioning the variance" makes me nervous, too. And I always said when I was in grad school that if I saw more than five Greek letters on the page, my brain shut down (in ecology, Greek letters mean tough equations ahead.)

I really really really need to read this, but I really really really don't want to.