Grumpy Helyn is grumpy

My life currently consists of thesis writing and feeling shitty during the day, followed by playing Wii and getting sore thumbs in the evenings. Urg.

I have had to pretty much reanalyse everything in my thesis. All so I can put add an extra decimal point to my P values. This requires increasing my permutations from 999 to 9999. I didn't hink this would be an issue but some of my runs are taking over three hours on my lappy. My poor old desktop has a heartattack. I have tried to do writing and updating tables on the desktop but I get so hot and cranky upstairs that I end up downstairs playing Zelda while waiting for my lappy to finish a run.
And I have to do new analyses too because one of my examiners hates my method. And rightly so - there are many criticisms to my statistical method and it is rather outdated. The problem is that the examiner hasn't specified what he wants. He just mentions "Bayesian approaches", which is no help because a lot of statistical methods use Bayesian analyses. I think he means using Bayesian coalescent-based statistics but I can't be too sure. The problem is the computational power required for such analyses. I did try a coalescent approach before but the power was cut two months into the run (I have no idea how many more months it would take - it probably wouldn't have been done in time). I am currently trying again on a cluster but will it be finished in a month? I can only hope...

I honestly feel more productive playing Zelda while running analyses than speding a morning reading papers only to write a single sentence. Really not looking forward to rewriting an entire chapter.
While I was somewhat lukewarm to Skyward Sword initially, the game has started to grow on me. I still don't like the sword and I still hate flying (I can't figure out why my stupid bird likes to do 180 turns while I try to fly up). I'm only past the third dungeon but so far I really like the items. Unlike the sword, I love how the items utilise the Wiimote. Bomb flowers were initially annoying - I had trouble rolling and kept blowing myself up. But that's not an issue once you get the bomb bag so it's all good. This is what I have been waiting for with the Wii. It's just a pity about the sword...
I love the design of Impa. She's so cool.