23:08:56 Wednesday January 28 2004 There comes a time when you realize that you need to start budgeting your time. A quick analysis. Current Software Projects Professor Simonsen's Recomb Widget Professor Xie's Multiple Alignment Widget cs626 packet analyzer Upcoming Software Projects cs626 router cs590d unknown project (better figure it out by Sunday) Whatever Faisel assigns me on Friday (probably XML stuff for NCN) qblog rewrite/update Anything I can manage for TCR Other Time Commitments Read and review four technical papers a week for cs590d Prepare one hour of lecture notes twice a week for cs490-dsp Meetings with Professors Xie and Simonsen once a week each Meeting with Faisel once a week Class attendance The three software projects are probably enough to keep one busy, and they do not show any sign of going away except for the packet analyzer. The upcoming projects are not upcoming in the sense that they are months away. They are all upcoming within the next two weeks. I don't complain a lot. You will notice that most of these posts are made in the early hours of the AM. However I have started waking up tired without knowing when I will be able to get a good nights sleep again. The stress and the sleep deprivation start to build up. You can feel it right behind your eyes. There is a dull ache combined with a burning sensation every time you eyes swivel. I know the ticking is on its way. The ticking was first experienced when we (Brad, Terry, Aiello, Wamz, and I) started grad school. By the last few weeks of the first semester several of us developed muscle spasms in one eyelid or the other, which we lovingly dubbed "the ticking". Everyone thinks it is a joke on Loony Tunes when they portray a crazy character by having their eyelid spasm. Well I can tell you it is rooted in truth. Under enough stress your eyelid will also begin to spasm. That is if you don't have a nervous breakdown first.