43.9%

What, you didn't think I had a spreadsheet telling me how ready I am for the semester?

I am 2/3rds done with the most intensive lectures for my database class. And I really am through the most difficult part of the measurement class - I'm getting into the territory of things I've actually worked with instead of things I've merely read about.* After just reading for a bunch of lectures without much modification to my advisor's slides, I'm finally to the point where I am updating the reading list and substantially modifying the slides. It is like I actually know something.

Of course, I am not as far along as I wanted to be.

But if I only prep 2 lectures per week, I will have everything prepped before spring break. And if I can't get it done that fast, that's OK, too.

Tomorrow is day 1!

* There is a derisive adage in medicine, "see one, do one, teach one." It turns out, in academia, it is often "see one, teach one." At least we're not dealing with people's lives. Oh, wait . . .