01:46:12 Wednesday December 03 2003
I think I need to start seriously considering the distinct possibility that I may be going mad. There is a bug in the code for Professor Simonsen's recombination widget. Actually there was a small collection of bugs conspiring to defeat me. I believe that I have it reduced down to one bug or at most a handful. However I have spent an obscene amount of time today chasing this damn thing and I can't seem to find it.

In other news we learned about ARP today in CS590N. Professor Comer was out with the flu. Also, I finally cleaned off the desk in my bedroom. The rooms in the extremities of the house get quite cold in the winter. It is nice be able to use the laptop in the room.

Also it is that time of semester again. At some point in the semester I realize that I have more things to do than hours in the day. At this point I pick up my now ancient prescription for desipramine. I see here that this bottle was dispensed on 1999-09-03. I was prescribed this long ago to treat attention deficit disorder (perhaps I will share my views on ADD later). It is your standard tricyclic antidepressant. It makes me feel just slightly out of it, which is when I do my best work. It has the added benefit of filling my head with neurotransmitters that are normally replenished at night which means that it basically stands in for real sleep. When I am on it I have a hard time sleeping through the night. Unfortunately the side effects are obnoxious. Aside from the fact that I don't like to feel "out of it" all the time it also generates quite a bit of vertigo when I stand up too quickly. Often I also loose vision temporarily when I stand. The other major drawback for a young man of my age is that while I am taking desipramine I couldn't get an erection to save my life. Now you see why I only take it a few weeks in any given semester.