Realise you spent £12 on last night's dinner, means no eating for
the next 6 weeks.
6:32
Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep.
7:00
Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit the
snooze button--you turned it off.
7:01
Fall asleep again.
7:44
Wake up with heart in mouth again.
7:45
Ready to go to uni, will shave tommorrow, will eat early brunch at
(Denny's/Penny's/Lenny's/Dinko's whatever cafeteria).
8:03
Arrive at school Realize your foreign office-mate arrived earlier
today, must have got more work done.
8:04
Pass by Advisor's office, chat with Secretary to find out if he is coming
in today. He is, darn. Need to start work on the draft due this afternoon.
8:15
Read Email.
8:20
Delete mail from students taking CMPSC201 regarding questions about the
class. Hate your job. Depression: too much work to do today.
9:00
For jumpstart: go to Pepsi machine.
9:05
Kick Pepsi machine; promise yourself to call up the company and ask for
your money back. Wonder why they would believe you.
9:33
Start printing out loads of stuff that may be vaguely related to your
work.
9:41
Early morning stupefaction. Mutter racist comments to yourself about your
officemate.
9:43
Curse your officemate in a low tone he would not comprehend. Feel good
about him not grasping English well.
9:58
Finger everyone in the department and most people half way around the
world (using the "finger" command, of course).
10:19
Feel sleepy, should not have stayed late playing tetris last night.
10:31
momentary panic attack!!!!!!!!!!!!
10:43
Edit .plan file. Write a shell program to edit .plan more easily.
10:59
Drop in at advisor's office and borrow something you don't need and kinda
make him aware you are working hard on your project.
11:05
perverted daydreams
11:11
Read electronic news. mid-morning yawn time
11:34
Start typing junk at a very high key-in rate to pretend you are working
hard as your advisor passes by from outside.
11:35
Press the BackSpace key for one and a half minutes until all the garbage
you typed in is erased. Realize that you can type more than 256 characters per
half minute.
11:41
Flirt with the new girl in the department.
11:45
Print out some slides for afternoon's draft + presentation.
11:47
Print them again, you forgot to change the date from last presentation.
11:49
Print another copy in case this one gets lost.
11:51
Completely forget about sueing the coffee-machine company.
12:15
Hunger pangs:
12:20
BigMac/Fries time. Drink a not-so-cold generic can of cola from your
desk. Cha-Ching, you just saved 35p by buying bulk cola.
1:00
Group Meeting with advisor.
1:14
Sudden awareness of one's shallowness, resentment towards foriegn
officemate for sucking up to your advisor. Get reminded by your advisor that
you need to do some more work for your literature survey.
1:51
Advisor hands you the reddened copy of your draft for corrections.
1:51:02
The 49 second urge to murder advisor begins!!
1:51:52
Realize that he controls your assistantship/grade/graduation
possiblity/graduation date/all job opportunities and the rest of your life.
1:52:53
Thank him.
1:52:54
Thank yourself for not saying something stupid to and/or killing your
advisor.
1:53:00
splitting headache #1
1:59
Check electronic mail, don't reply though, you are too busy to do that.
2:06
More generic cola.
2:17
Oh No, it is my turn to cook tonight :-(
2:30
Sit through the class you were told to sit through.
2:39
Look outside the window make unrealistic plans to quit this degree program
and take up a job. Wonder why blonde girls are so pretty.
2:48
More perverted day-dreams. Close the office door and open a few
.Jpeg files. Sharpen pencil.
3:06
Worry about never graduating. Time to write a letter--NOT! no time for
that. Rearrange desk. Call up bank; see if you have any money. Fear
of losing aid next Autumn. Read LaTeX manuals to figure out how to put
&$%&% in %$^% format.
3:43
Watch the clock. Make plans to do a all-nighter tonight. Vow to watch
only 2 TV programs.
4:58
Notice Advisor leave.
4:58:01
Sudden sense of freedom. Go home for quick, short dinner break.
9:00pm
Come into the office.
9:01pm
The hard working grad student you are, you have to come to the office late
at night to "get the work done".
9:03
Check electronic mail. Decide it would be a good time to attack those ftp
sites since network won't be loaded. Run into heavy "since network won't be
loaded" traffic and get the pictures into your machine. Compress all unwanted
research/class directories to make space. Back up all your pictures.
10:11
Admire pictures. Begin work; Realize you need references. Realize its
too late today to go to the library. Sudden feeling of having wasted the day.
10:49
Sudden feeling of possibly having to waste the night. Decide to turn in
early and come back very early tommorrow morning. Decide to play a Tetris on
the system to put yourself in a good mood.
11:15
Play game after game after game to improve your score and get on the
scoreboard. Realize that your officemate is still at number 6, two notches
above you on the scoreboard.
12:20
Play until you beat your officemate into the 7th place. A sense of
achievment!! Yes, today was not wasted!! Return home to find your roommate
watching a documentary about Fruit Bats on BBC4. Tell him about the "hard
working grad student day you had". Discuss philosophy with roommate.
1:09
Think about becoming a philosopher and dining with 4 others (The Dining
Philosophers problem, hee hee :-) (Comp Sci joke) Argue with him about
politics, why people prefer Japanese cars and whether it is better to set the
heat to "hot" or "cold" to defrost the windshields faster.
1:49
Realize neither of you have bought milk today. Get reminded of the "too
much milk problem".
2:04
Forget about getting up early. Turn the phone ringer off and go to sleep.
