[Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted

[Shickeytha Chandler]

Shawn,

I did not realize you are a statistician--very cool. I would like to
have a conversation with you sometime about which software programs
you use and workarounds that you have found. I have an undergraduate
degree in Accounting and Masters in Public Administration, and my
current job is likely to involve some statistics once I get further
into it.

Shickeytha

On 11/3/17, Jacobson, Shawn D via MD-Sligo <md-sligo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Yasmin
>
> Thank you for the good words.
>
> Acutally, in the days of computers in which we live, statistics is a lot
> less about calculations than it was when I was growing up.  It is a lot
> about communicating with numbers.  To be a good statistician you have to
> figure out the truth the numbers are trying to tell you and get it in to a
> report with the best tables, charts, etc. That you can use to tell the
> numbers' story.  So statistics is about communicating with numbers and
> writing fiction / poetry is about communicating with words.
>
> Once again thanks.
>
> Shawn
>
> From: MD-Sligo [mailto:md-sligo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Reyazuddin,
> Yasmin via MD-Sligo
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> Subject: Re: [Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted
>
> Shawn,
> It is great to know that a person who works as a statistician can write
> fiction and poetry.
> Keep up the good work. When you are done with crunching the numbers you play
> with words.
>
>
> Yasmin Reyazuddin, Customer Service Representative II
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> Subject: Re: [Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted
>
> Thank you for all who commented on my message.  Thank you for the good words
> and encouragement.
>
> The poem will be published in Bewildering Stories the week of December 4th.
> The title will be "Star Watch".  The editors felt like "Stars" was too
> generic a title and wanted in jazzed up some.  We went back and forth on
> titles yesterday and came up with this one.
>
> Once again thanks for the support.
>
> Shawn
>
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> Subject: I got a poem accepted
>
> Just wanted to let you all know that I got a poem accepted by Bewildering
> Stories.  Again, this did not pay out any money, but it is an online
> magazine that accepts work from the wider world, not just the disabilities
> community.  So I'm doing my happy dance.
>
> Shawn
>