April 13, 2008

  • and another ten days flies by like nothing.

    it's almost unreal how quickly time is passing.

    i can remember the pressure i was under when i first signed up for these classes.  i can remember going and getting some therapy for all the stress i was under.  i can remember all the stress i was under when grandma was still in rehab.  it feels like such a short time ago, and in reality it's been almost a quarter of a year since then.

    i look down at the movie stub on my desk and it reads "3/15."  i still find it hard to believe i went to that movie almost a month ago.

    and i'm still sleep-deprived.  i feel like i have finally hit my limit, i've been dizzy all day long.  as soon as i finish this entry, i'm popping an ambien and sleeping for as long as i can.

    i just want to talk about my workload a bit.  holy balls.

    on the 15th, i have: a midterm in CS 158A and a milestone for CS 161 due.
    on the 16th, i have: a midterm in CS 134.
    on the 17th, i have: a proposal for a project in CS 149 due, a homework assignment for CS 149 due, several homework assignments for CS 158A due, and a large software project for CS 158A due.
    on the 24th, i have: a midterm in CS 149.
    on the 1st, i have: that project for CS 149 due.
    on the 5th, i have: my final game prject for CS 134 due.
    i will have weekly homeworks resuming in CS 154 starting this week.

    so yeah.  the next four weeks are going to suck royal.  i can kiss my social life goodbye for the next month.  i can't say i'm behind, as i've finished my homework for CS 149 and 158A, as well as having done my CS 149 project proposal and my part of the CS 161 milestone.  but the project itself is going to be hairy.  my game project started out as a team effort but my teammate has disappeared, so it's now a one-man show.  my group for CS 158A is still somewhat disorganized, so i'm not sure what's going on there.

    all in all it's making for a very stressful time.  but i'm surviving.  i'm pushing forward.  i figured it would all come down to this.  just like the king of rohan said: "and the sun still rises!"

    also i bought aikora off amazon.co.jp to use in our scanlations over at MQ.  the webraws for that volume are terrible.  i practiced my hand at debinding, and it's actually quite easy.  it took me about half an hour to go through the whole volume.  so now i have aikora in a plastic bag on my desk, all that is keeping me from scanning it is some black paper to prevent bleedthrough.