continuum

i started today with a huge relief (or is it relieved? darn, i'm pretty sure it's relief, you don't add -ed to a noun, don't you?).
the thesis thing that i missed deadlines and thought i would only have till the 15th and thought the 15th is this wednesday. what a miracle it is. wednesday is now a friday. amazing God. (or rather foolish human). so i got to my now-oh-so-very-quiet campus, since we're on semester break, waiting for some lecturers to sign my defense proposal. and rather try to wait in vain till the clock hits 1600h.

darn, it's 0930h.

but i got my subtitling thing going on -CSI las vegas's never been this boring.and i have to force myself not to get online, cause i still have an episode of 'guts and bolts' to be subtitled.
but hey, hey, i think i hurt my thumb from typing and hitting ctrl+c and ctrl+v. so i stopped for the sake of my thumb. never thought you would be this dearly loved, oh dear thumb.

and my so-long-amusing-friend from freshmen year came and ...well she was stressing with her quantitative research, and i seriiously can't help her there. the thing is she was one of a great friend i've found during my first couple of months in this so called hedonistic campus.

she spent two year in suriname with her dad working for foreign affairs, and i - well i just got back from the states, longing for some english speaking friends that doesn't take my assertiveness as showing off and making everyone else's look bad. so we were all suit right to each other.

so today, we met after months of non-meeting. her stressfull face, just got back with a silver from kaltim's PON- a hockey player, she is, and asked this horrific question,

"where do all those numbers in this thesis come from?"

i would've been god to know the answer. but i know people expect much from me here- and i seriously try to say it in the most modest way possible.hmpf.
i tried to help her figure things out. then, there, we met the ' continuum line'. a word i refer to john mayer, thank you very much.

up till 10 minutes ago, we were figuring out why the heck the numbers in continuum lines seem to appear on its own. it's either :

the sigma of something : by something . 100%
or
the amount of questions (in scale) .n. 100%

we went back and forth to other people's and last year's thesis. checking out and comparing what they did to finally get the continuum line.something i've been avoiding since the very first time we had to make thesis. xoxo to qualitative.

mulder and scully old cliche saying would've said : the truth is out there (well, in here actually. in those piles of freaking old thesis).

mr. mayer, thank you for making continuum such an item. without you it would only stay in the depth of a quantitative research.