April 23, 2020

Coffee from Dunkin' Donuts this morning. Made oatmeal for breakfast. Studied French this morning.

Most of the day was spent attending online the first day of the annual HOPE conference. The conference this year is on statistical inference. I took notes on the questions from the floor. The papers presented and discussed today were by Jeff Biddle on crop and livestock forecasts, Amanar Akhabbar on the Harvard Economics Research Project, and Paul Burnett on the Chicago agriculture group. In between taking notes, I put on a pot of black beans and continued to study French.

AR came over for dinner tonight. We had the beans and rice and a salad, and yeast rolls that I made. We ate and watched the NFL draft. Dessert was ice cream. Now my tummy hurts.

Another volume of the Norton Anthology arrived today: volume 2 of the English literature anthology, fourth edition. Looks like it's in fantastic shape. I forgot I ordered it.

I wrote a post for my Professorspeak blog on a Politics & Society paper on voter representation in welfare policy: do governments listen to voters when they set welfare policies?

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