writerjenn

Today's entry is a pop quiz.  Please answer fully and do not look at your neighbor's answers.

1. If it's 45 degrees out when I leave in the morning but it's going to be 68 when I'm coming home, should I wear my heavy coat and roast in the afternoon, or my light jacket and freeze in the morning?

2. I have deleted 3 very minor characters from my WIP.  Is that enough, or will more heads be rolling?

3. This year I'm going to prune the lilacs for the first time, since they're getting too tall.  What are the chances I will inadvertently kill at least one of them?  Bonus Bayesian statistics question: If I kill one, what then is the probability that the other will die too?

4. That Thanksgiving-night scene that I wrote for my WIP and am keeping in a separate file: does it belong in the book or not? Please give your answer in quantitative form, showing the confidence interval.

5. If 24 hours in a day are too few to get everything done, what would be the right amount of hours?

6. What are the chances that the faucets in a public rest room will gush forth only COLD water?  (Heck, I'll give you the answer to this one: 50% in the summer, 95% in the winter.)

7. How many passes through my WIP will the current revision require?

8. How many little slips of paper do I have on my desk, each containing a scribbled thought about my WIP?  How many people in the world besides me would be able to decipher these little slips of paper?

9. Does anyone else remember when taking a test like this would require a Number 2 pencil, or am I just hopelessly old?  Do you remember that instruction about not putting any "stray marks" on your test paper?  Didn't that make you just want to put crazy stray marks all over it? 

10. And what did they have against Number 1 pencils?

Time's up.  Thank you for participating.  Grades will be assigned randomly.