Friday, 4 April 2008

what to do? help a woman in her boredom (is that even a word?)

Here is a list of things to do so I don’t spend the next four days on facebook-stalking and playing solitaire:

Read all my receipts from the two last terms, (I save them. Just in case.) Classify the types of items purchased. I wonder what the most common article is. Bread? Beer? (But that of course depends on whether I count every single beer or sixpack) If I do that, the fact that I have been saving all my receipts since 2005 would somehow feel justified.

Make an art installation of the huge granny pants I bought in Primark. They were the wrong size but I don’t want to throw them away.

Call random numbers on the extension line and ask people if they want to have an outdoors party with me in the park. Hopefully a large number of people would turn up, including David Blaine.

Purchase many boxes of Lego-bricks and build something useful like a clothes-rack to have in my room. That would be rather expensive tough, seeing as a 500-piece box of LEGO is 13pounds and I guess I would need at least two boxes to build something worth building. However, I would consider it a long-term investment, because I could have them and play with them as much as I wanted in the future.

What do you think I should do? Vote here:



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4 comments:

Amanda said...

as I LOVE prank-calling, I would normally vote for that. However, as not that many people answer during term-time, even fewer would answer now. In addition, I could say at the 5% error level that Pr(0.01>people that are willing to come to the party>0.04)

Even though it is statistically discernible, I would say that the pant-art sounds a lot funnier and easier to complete. xxxx

Gerda said...

excellent interpretation of my dilemma, Amanda. I believe your evaluation of the data should be considered before voting by all. about the park-party. I hope someone will vote for the LEGO-building as well...

Amanda said...

the current status is 4 votes to lego and only 2 for pants. I would appreciate it if you took my observational studies under deep consideration rather than votes. Are you sure your poll is not biased? Have you considered the possibility of multi-voting?

Gerda said...

multi-voting is not possible, unless people vote from different computers. If they do that, I shall allow it, because that must mean that they care deeply how I spend my time. (I can't help but feel flattered by the thought.)