-0/0 -00:01

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 115 words.

Impossibly saved by weather this week..

-0/0 -23:00

Weather:

Partly cloudy: misbehavior

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Finished lecture tape.
  • Reviewed 113 vocabularies (100%)

Spreadsheets are helpful for a wordlist.

-0/1 -23:28

Weather:

Overcast: overslept

• School
  • Thesis research: no significant progress.
• GRE
  • Lecture tape O-Q.
  • Marked 113 new words.

Sleeping earlier today.

-0/2 -21:24

Weather:

Sunny->Overcast: misbehavior

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Hypothesis reaffirmation.
• GRE
• Lecture tape F-M
• Marked 11 new words out of several hundred.

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Sleep greatly disrupted.

-0/3 -23:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress
• GRE
• Lecture tape E-F

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Paid full price for 7 days of medication..

-0/4 -21:22

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis research: no significant progress.
• GRE
  • Lecture tape D.

Should have thought about pharmacy being closed today… =_=

-0/5 -21:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Note writing.
• GRE
• Sample issue essay reading.

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Christmas eve at roommate's.

-0/0 -00:10

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School:
  • Thesis Research: no significant process
• GRE:
  • Lecture tape B-C.
  • Studied new vocabularies.
  • Created frequency list markup.

Reparation needed.

-0/0 -23:01

Weather:

Sunny->Partly cloudy: indiscretion check

• School:
  • Thesis research: no significant progress.
• GRE:
  • Vocabulary review lecture tape A.
  • Recorded 34 new words.
  • New personal wordlist addition.

So the popular lecturer does not really speak well .. but the material is fine.

-0/2 -00:36

Weather:

Overcast: misbehavior

• School
  • Thesis research:
    • Note scratching.
• Work
  • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • One practice section.

Hospital did not answer call … :(

Under very strange condition today.

-0/2 -22:37

Weather:

Overcast: overslept

• School
  • Project near completion.
• Work
  • Recorded one new enhancement request in bugzilla.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 19 words.

Worst oversleep this semester =_=

-0/3 -20:06

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: charge persisting

• School
• Reported project progress.
• Thesis Research:
• Scratched some notes.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day. (r)
• Math problem of the day. (r)
• Antonym problem of the day. (r)

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Filed two applications for prescription assistance.

-0/4 -22:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Small project progress.
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress
• Work
• Filed new bugs.
• Design discussion with colleague.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.

---

Trying insomnia substitute.

-0/6 -00:31

Weather:

Sunny

• School:
  • Progress in project.
• Work
  • No significant progress
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

Got up past noon. =_=

-0/6 -19:32

Weather:
Partly cloudy: charge persisting -> Sunny

• School
  • Significant project progress.
  • Thesis research:
    • Discovery of new pattern.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.

Planned task review tomorrow.

-0/0 -23:06

Weather:

Rain: misbehavior

• School
• Project progress.
• Thesis Research:
• Concept contemplation.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day (r).

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Made cold dinner for today.

-0/1 -22:00

Weather:

Partly cloudy: under charge -> Sunny

• School
• Significant project progress.
• Thesis Research:
• Demonstration for one professor.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.

---

Made outlooking reminders.

-0/2 -19:38

Weather:

Overcast: under charge

• School
  • Progress on project.
  • Thesis Research:
    • Unsatisfactory presentation.
• Work
  • Refactoring suggestions.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.

Some reinvigorating news, just as expected.

-0/3 -20:00

Weather:

Overcast: under charge

• School
  • New note examples.
• Work
  • New bug assigned.
• GRE
  • Antonym problem of the day.

Audio poster tomorrow.

-0/4 -20:02

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: insufficient action

• School
• Thesis Research:
• New note scratches.
• Work
• Regular meeting.
• Bug fixing.
• Upcoming tasks discussion with colleague.
• GRE
• Antonym problem of the day.

---

A day with sunlight.. still holding charges.

-0/5 -22:04

Weather:

Rain: under charge

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Studying a very pertinent book.
• Work
• Bug fixing & filing.
• New requirements gathering.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day. (r)

---

Began to come to a possibly significant understanding.

-0/0 -00:05

Weather:

Rain: overdue delivery

• School:
  • Thesis Research:
    • Theory contemplation.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.

May the gratitude reach.

-0/0 -20:58

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business

• School
  • Pushed by work.
• Work
  • Finished essentially all the assigned difficult tasks before holiday even started.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.
  • Analogy problem of the day (r)

All businesses will be settled soon.

-0/1 -19:11

Weather:

Partly cloudy: unsettled business

• Chores:
  • Hospital visit.
  • Called a round of prescription assistance companies. (getting referred from one to another until reaching back to the first one =_=)
• Work:
  • Devised solution to one mathematical problem.
• GRE:
  • Studied new vocabularies.

Received one of the most difficult tasks in the team for holiday ^_^;

-0/2 -21:01

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: schoolwork deficiency -> Sunny

• School:
  • No significant progress.
• Work:
  • Fixed a burrowed severe bug 30 min after colleague discovered the exact same fix. _-_
  • Minor interface refactoring.
• GRE:
  • Widget Analogy review.

Going workaholic under charge.

-0/3 -19:57

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: severe misbehavior

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress.
• Work
• Closed one bug.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.

---

Need to visit hospital in the next two days .. move time.

-0/4 -23:16

Weather:

Sunny -> partly cloudy: unbalanced workload.

• School
  • Classroom presentation very successful.
• Work
  • Bug fixing & filing.
  • New feature implementation.
  • Design & integration support.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 9 vocabularies.
  • Widget analogy review.

Need to shift work balance now.

-0/5 -22:59

Weather:

Partly cloudy: project deficiency.

• School:
  • Finished presentation.
• Work:
  • Supported colleague to identify a 3rd-party component related problem.
• GRE:
  • Widget analogy review.

Review of one journal article turned into review of a dozen ^_^;;

-0/7 -00:34

Weather:

Rain: project deficiency, misbehavior

• School
• Wrapped up presentation.
• Thesis Research:
• Studied new terminologies.
• Explored impact of one mathematical formulation.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.

---

Taking some sleep back again.

Theoretical study needs to procceed.

-0/0 -23:00

Weather:

Overcast: project deficiency

• School:
  • Emailed discussion questions to journal article presenters.
• GRE:
  • Widget analogy review.

Illustration refinement for publication can really take long hours..

-0/2 -00:29

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Finished first draft of presentation.
• Formulated journal article discussion questions.
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.
• Analogy problems of the day.

---

Remember the CFG.

-0/3 -00:39

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Re-scheduled meeting with advisor tomorrow.
    • Devised plan for expanding experiment program functionality.
• Work
  • Finished new feature implementation.
  • Several functionality enhancements.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.
  • Reviewed 69 vocabularies.

Re-pacing + undisrupted sleep-shifting.

 

-0/4 -02:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Expansion of an application outline.
• Work
• Investigated a feature extension.
• GRE
• Studied argument and issue essay guidelines and samples.

---

Ran across a very interesting blog today.

-0/5 -00:02

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with professor on the document - valuable evaluation received.
• Work
• Regular meeting.
• Design discussion on two new features.
• Helped with processing of materials to be published.
• GRE
• Word review from readings.

---

No turning of sleep schedule yet.

-0/6 -00:00

Weather:

Overcast: overslept.

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Revised the hypotheses document, added a few more implications.
• Work
• Supported colleague with new user interface implementation.
• GRE
• Studied general essay strategies.

---

Overdue journal shifted sleep schedule back.

-0/6 -20:44

Weather:

Rain: misbehavior -> Mist

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Finished a writing formally describing all major hypotheses.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day(r)

---

Insurance has limited coverage over the year, which covers two months of the medication ..

.. staying alive under great mercy.

-0/0 -13:54

Weather:

Overcast: grave misbehavior

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Ready to work on further decomposition.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day. (r)

---

Fugue variations.

-0/1 -20:4

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Many more data processing.
• GRE
• Antonym problem of the day

---

Need to get more medicine tomorrow.

-0/2 -20:21

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: overslept.

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Methodological data construction.
• GRE
• Sentence completion questions of the day. (r)

---

- "You got a hair cut! .. It's really long~"

- Thanksgiving game: I can fit through a coathanger..

- Eating turkey makes you lose weight, instantly.

-0/3 -20:56

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: misbehavior.

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Discussion with two professors – two hypotheses, on tentative definition.
    • New data processing result.
• Work
  • Helped colleague with new display functionality implementation.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 33 words.

Rondo, alla, turca~

-0/4 -19:35

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: overslept -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Talked with two professors.
• Obtained first complete piece of processed data. T_T
• Work
• Phone meeting with collegue on feature collaboration.
• GRE
• Antonym problem of the day. (r)

---

Got almost totally unexpected, *nice* result from processor.T_T

-0/5 -20:00

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Preliminary data separation algorithm completed.
• Work
• Presentation submission.
• GRE
• Widget analogy review.

---

Work presentation postponed agian -_-;;;

-0/6 -17:46

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: misbehavior

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Finished preliminary implementation of new data structure.
• GRE
  • Widget analogy review.

More thesis progress to be made.

-0/0 -21:53

Weather:

Sunny->Partly Cloudy: unsettled business

• School
  • Finished assignment.
• Work
  • Finished presentation slides.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 26 words.
  • Widget analogy review.

Over-napped in the afternoon. T_T

-0/2 -00:15

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: unsettled business -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Devised a data structure.
• Work
• New class implementation.
• GRE
• Reading comprehension problem of the day.
• Analogy problem of the day.
• Sentence completion problem of the day.

---

The fruit parfait is surprisingly good @@

-0/3 -00:06

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: misbehavior

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pretty much finished documentation evaluation – may be usable.
    • Studied LISP tutorial.
• Work
  • Helped with requirement gathering of user interface.
• GRE
  • Essential vocabulary page 1/8
  • Reviewed 11 words
  • Widget analogy/antonym review.

Stocked up enough food for the next big earthquake. ^_^;;

-0/3 -22:03

Weather:

Sunny -> Mostly cloudy: project deficiency.

• School
  • Expanded coding in LISP.
• Work
  • Supporting colleague in expanded feature implementation.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 66 words. (100%)

Oatmeal + beef jerky are really good. T_T

-0/4 -23:38

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: overnapping -> Rain: misbehavior

• School
• Thesis Research:
• LISP Studies.
• Work
• Small design discussion.
• Bug fix notification.
• GRE
• Worked on some maths problems with roommate.
• Sentence completion problems of the day. (r)

---

The drug seems to be replacing the nausea with fatigue after eating greasy food ... :-/

-0/5 -22:27

Weather:

Sunny -> Mostly Cloudy: schoolwork deficiency.

• School
  • Finished homework.
• Work
  • New methods for auxiliary class.
  • New implementation utilizing auxiliary class.
  • Critical bug fixes.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.
  • Reviewed 10 vocabularies.

Work review meeting postponed again -_-;;

-0/6 -20:36

Weather:

Sunny->Mostly cloudy: misbehavior

• Chores
• Help in kitchen wall painting.
• School
• Mostly finished on homework.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.

---

Finally got back on schoolwork.

-0/0 -21:40

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Started on homework assignment.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 27 words.

Misbehavior warning.

-0/2 -00:08

Weather:

Partly cloudy: recalled misbehavior -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress.
• Work
  • Several bug fixes.
  • Support for new implementation – caught a numerical precision error.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 56 words.

I had a bento today~ T_T

-0/2 -22:52

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Reconfigured IDE for development toolkit.
• Work
  • Regular meeting – roadmap discussion.
  • Helped colleague with implementation.
• GRE
  • One practice section [>] – reading, analogy, antonym
  • Widget antonym review.

Great Chinese food today in friend's house T_T

-0/3 -21:16

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Idea discussion with professor.
• Experimented with new data conversion utility.
• Studied into the top-choice toolkit further.
• Work
• Brief report.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Sentence completion problem of the day. (r)
• Analogy problem of the day.

---

The house is icy cold today ..

-0/4 -21:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor.
• Work
• Refactoring.
• New methods for auxiliary class.
• Extend implementation utilizing the auxiliary class.
• GRE
• One practice section [y] - Verbal

---

Vending machine held one bag of chip in the air .. only to drop it after buying another T_T

0/6 00:20

Weather:

Sunny -> Thunderstorm: grave misbehavior recall

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Obtained maths articles.
• Work
• Refactoring.
• GRE
• One practice section - maths (30/30)
• Studied two book sections on reading comprehension.

---

.. Getting hungry so easily after catching cold.

-0/6 -16:21

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Finish assignment. [X]
• Work
• Bug fixing. [X]
• GRE
• One practice section. []

---

Grave misbehavior ... saved by atmospheric phenomenon. T_T

-0/1 -00:07

Weather:

Sunny

• Rested in bed due to sickness.
• GRE
• Essential prefixes quiz.

---

Lost key to the office ...

-0/1 -23:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Catch up on coding. [X]
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• One practice section. []
• Reviewed 45 words.

---

Big headache from sickness today postponed everything. T_T

-0/2 -22:24

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Continue coding investigation [/] - reading lisp doc, coding postponed by sickness
• Work
• Meeting presentation.
• Design discussion.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - analogy + maths (28/30)

---

It is bad to catch a cold. T_T

0/3 -21:24

Weather:

Sunny -> partly cloudy: lack of school project progress

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Find a way to fix bug in the implementation. [x] - some new bug introducing -_-
• Work
• Preliminary new feature implementation.
• GRE
• One practice section [>] half of a maths section.

---

Resting due to catching cold T_T

0/4 -21:43

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Make an implementation of duration change. [>] - incorrect timeshifts.
• Work
• Refactoring support.
• Design discussion.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] (37/42)
• Studied one chapter of the book on reading.

---

Played tennis first time in a while.

-0/6 -00:10

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Find a way to program time expansion. [>] - untested theory
• Email professor to request maths paper. [ ]
• Email student introduced by professor. [ ]
• Work
• Bug fixing.
• Support for algorithmic correction.
• GRE
• One practice session [X] (19/22)

---

Carrots are good ~

-0/6 -23:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Start on homework assignment. [>] - downloaded materials, made some data processing
• Thesis Research:
• Wrote one program to test data structure. [X] - two alternative toolkits have similar limitations.
• New notes
• GRE
• Two practice sections [X] - verbal (82.5%) + essay study

---

Lived off of GRE .. continuing sleep adjustment.

-0/0 -20:30

Weather:

Cloudy: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Determine usability of data structure in alternative library. [>] - seem to have type limitations, more tests needed.
• GRE
• One practice section [ ] - moved to tomorrow
• Reviewed 30 vocabularies
• Widget antonym review

---

Adjusting sleep.

-0/1 -22:09

Weather:

Cloudy: low schoolwork time allocation -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Improve filter program to store things in a data structure. [y] - studying one alternative library found.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - Challenging reading comprehension and problem solving (83%+overtime .. :( )

---

Overslept again ... -_-;; Rain finally stopped but nobody really came to look at the roof ...

-0/3 -21:47

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business.

• School
• Make directions for assignment [X] - and potential paper topic!
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor [X]
• Programmed a simple filtering model.
• Work
• Support for colleague in correction of algorithm implementation.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - Sentence completion + Reading (28/30 ..T_T!)

---

Got 100% on sentence completion practice again ... T_T

People coming to look at the roof (and ceiling leak~) tomorrow ... T_T

0/4 -00:00

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Implement some simple data processing using anything [X] - transposition with python code.
• Work
• Design discussion.
• GRE
• One practice section [x] - vocabulary drill with roommate
• Widget antonym review.
• Analogy problems of the day.

---

Got new curtains for the room, screwed in curtain hooks on the frame in for the first time. ^_^

0/4 -22:11

Weather:

Rain: overslept, unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Continue investigation in feature extraction. [x] - configured new alternative software tool.
• Work
• Refactoring + new user interface support.
• Meeting with boss on mathematical difficulties of the engineering problem.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - analogy + comparison (90% .. T_T)

---

My ceiling leaks ~ hope my bucket have enough volume for tonight .. T_T

-0/5 -21:55

Weather:

Rain: unsettled business.

• School
• Homework revision.
• Thesis Research:
• Investigate feature extraction from file data. [ ] - found faults in software tool.
• Work
• Support for user interface implementation.
• Code cleanup and feature completion.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - 28/30 (w/ seen problems)

---

Software needs further investigation.

-0/6 -19:08

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Finish homework [y] - check pending
• Thesis Research:
• Test the ability of the software tool for data reading. [X] - capable.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - two reading comprehension + one antonym list

---

Some Yogurt tastes better than the others .. but not really more nutritious.

-0/0 -22:59

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• One article / one sample program. [>] - further reading of manual
• Motivation and inspiration after reading one course syllabus
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - sentence completion and reading comprehension (70%..T_T)

---

Seems like Carnegie Melon has an interesting computer music professor.

-0/1 -21:32

Weather:

Sunny -> overcast: underperforming

• School
• Finish assignment for one chapter. [y] - 1 problem left
• Thesis Research:
• Study one example with the software tool. [#] - example of low pertinence.
• Work
• Support back and forth between two colleagues.
• Significant progress in implementation of two major components.
• GRE
• One practice section. [] - pushed by work
• Antonym question of the day (r)

---

Got week's work hours in without trying .. back to GRE and schoolwork. Found one error on professor's textbook .. will second-check it before talking to him.

-0/3 -00:00

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny -> Storm: misbehavior

• School
• Finish half of homework for one chapter [X]
• Thesis Research:
• Continue evaluation of software tool. [X]
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• One practice section [>] - issue essay sample evaluation + topic review
• Maths problem of the day.

---

Software looks like it has potential to be useful so far.

-0/4 -00:06

Weather:

Overcast: sleep debt -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Validate and test programming tool. [X] - tested a working windows setup with some examples.
• Work
• Support for feature implementation.
• New user interface.
• GRE
• One new practice section. [X] - 1 maths section
• Got pp2review to work which enables access of all problems in the database of ETS Powerprepare 2.

---

.. missed two maths problems by misreading >_<

-0/5 -00:01

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• One article. [X] - Toolkit documentation.
• Work
• Revised one auxiliary method.
• Support for building realistic test cases for algorithm.
• Discussion on algorithm design for new functionality.
• GRE
• One practice section [X]
• Software reconfiguration.

---

Had good Chinese food today .. perfectly calculated for budget and quality. :)

-0/5 -23:12

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: catching up with schoolwork

• School
• 2+ article for assignment [X] - one maths article and one chapter of a book.
• Thesis Research
• Meet with professor.
• Work
• Prepare for meeting [X]
• Bug fix.
• Algorithm design discussion.
• Received new task.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - Mentored verbal section test
• Widget antonym review.

---

Got quite a bit of skepticism from professor today ... need to put more work into thesis.

Did a difficult practice test and missed a lot T_T.

-0/0 -00:45

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Read one journal article.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Finished the rest of the audio books.
• Antonym strategy.
• The printing error in math problem before was a misread -_-;
• Analogy problem of the day (r)

---

Business unsettled .. next week's survival depends on task list.

-0/0 -21:49

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores
  • Grocery shopping
  • Cleaned up room pretty much completely, with help of friend.
• School
  • Thesis research:
    • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.

Hopefully some business would be settled soon.

-0/1 -23:30

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: unsettled business

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress.
• Work
  • Bug filing.
  • Continued bug tracker configuration.
  • Began refactoring for one component.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.

Went to bed early and overslept -_-;

-0/3 -2:00

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: slow thesis progress, unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor, new paradigm for model, more detailed ideas on implementation.
• Work
• Support leads to priliminary implmentation of one feature.
• Bugfixes
• New methods for auxillary class.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Antonym problem of the day.

---

Finally managed to go to bed early for one day.

-0/3 -20:57

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: catching up on schoolwork

• School
  • Finished one assignment
• Work
  • Bug tracker fix & reconfiguration.
  • Collaboration.
• GRE
  • Math problems of the day (one printing error in the practice problem o_o)

Progress is good .. load still a little high.

-0/4 -20:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Almost finished one assignment.
• Work
• Long meetings: worked out roadmap past current phase deliverable.
• Bugfixes
• Helped collegue with algorithm design.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review

---

Getting back on schoowork and having fun with them ^_^

-0/5 -20:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pushed by work.
• Work
  • New feature implementation.
  • Long math derivation session with colleague.
  • Bug filing.
• GRE
  • Analogy question of the day. (r)
  • Widget antonym review.

Shifting to schoolwork tomorrow.

-0/6 -23:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Continued reading paper.
• Work
  • Minor bug fix.
  • New helper class implementation.
• GRE
  • Math flash cards review.
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

Consulted Dad's analytic geometry handbook for the first time because of work ^_^'' It's a cool book indeed.

-0/1 -00:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Started reading the 160-page article.
• Work
• Bugzilla configuration.
• Bugfixing.
• GRE
• Analogy problems of the day. (0.5r)

---

Found out that large parts of the article could be skipped .. and it is tied with one of my undergraduate seminars. :P

-0/2 -00:30

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Retrieved article through citation.
• Work
• Several critical bug fixes.
• Prettying much worked one of three previous major risks into low priority.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Word prefix studies.
• Analogy problem of the day. (r)

---

The article is 160+ pages long ^_^; Got plenty to read without Internet at home now.

-0/2 -19:23

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Obtained paper citation from professor.
    • Meeting with thesis advisor.
• Work
  • Hammering away weeks of work in one day: bugfixes, new features, collaborations ..
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review

Smoking too much work these days .. need to take a break and shift to courseworks.

-0/3 -19:22

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Interesting material found. Meeting with professor tomorrow to get paper.
• Work
  • Lots of coding on new feature.
  • Support for bug fixing.
  • Intensive debugging of new feature. (fixed bugs involving colleague's interacting component as well)
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.
  • Extended ideas from math problem explored.

Voluntary overworking = multiplied productivity. ^_^;

-0/4 -22:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pushed forward by work.
• Work
  • Regular meetings.
  • Several significant bug fixing & support.
  • Finished preliminary implementation of new feature.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day (r)
  • Analogy problem of the day (r)

Great progress in work pushing everything else forward -_-;

-0/5 -23:00

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Contemplation in hypothesis.
• Work
  • Support colleague in module implementation.
  • Significant performance enhancement.
  • Implementation of new feature extension.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.
  • Math review.

Getting hungry a little easier than normal ... guess it was a good thing :P

-0/7 -02:51

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores:
• Finished moving & cleaning up old house.
• Some arrangements in room & kitchen.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day.

---

My bed got a headboard for the first time in more than a year ^_^;;

-0/1 -02:50

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores
• Room arrangement
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day. (r)
• Maths problem of the day (!)

---

Room got cleaned up fast ^_^ ... muscle aches ..

-0/2 -00:36

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores
• Moving
• Work
• Repository check.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day (r).
• Widget antonym reviews.

---

Moving day .. cooked up all dumplings in the freezer :P

-0/2 -20:04

Weather:

Rain: schoolwork delay -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress.
• Work
• Support for collegue.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day (r)

---

Medicine is only giving nausea so far. Better than many possible things. ^_^;

Busy packing ..

-0/4|3 -22:11

Weather:

Sunny -> Rain: unpublished journal, overdoing homework -> Sunny

• School
• Homework revision complete.
• Thesis Research:
• Discussion with professor over fairly detailed problem definition. A challenge was brought up over the constituents of outputs. Formed a primitive answer to that challenge.
• Work
• Extensive meeting, initial test plan formed.
• Bugfixing
• Finished some backend code implementation for accommodating new feature.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day (r).
• Analogy problems of the day (rr)
• Widget analogy and antonym review.

---

Ready to start taking medicine tomorrow.

-0/5 -22:42

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Homework revision.
• Thesis Research:
• Wrote down new heuristic.
• Work
• Code metrics review.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day(r)
• Analogy invention: commute/pardon : sentence :: reduce/forgive : debt

---

Challenged one of the professor's homework problem approaches and proved her solution to be incomplete. ^_^; Then got some great suggestion and a high-five for completing a difficult proof, with an idea initially conceived by intuition ... I <3 woman mathematicians.

-0/6 -18:01

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Finished one homework.
• Thesis Research:
• Improvement in Latex formula formatting.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day (r)

---

Ate some good mooncakes ^_^

-0/0 -22:50

Weather:

Sunny

• School:
  • More progress on homework.
• Work
  • Helped colleague work out two coding problems.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day. (r)
  • Analogy problem of the day.
  • Antonym problem of the day. (r)

Schoolwork and GRE pushing tight while moving errands come close -_-;;;;

-0/1 -22:58

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Progress on homework
• GRE
• Permutation review
• Analogy problem of the day

---

Latex is cool~ ^_^

-0/2 -21:47

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Combinatorial Optimizations:
• Started homework assignment
• Thesis Research:
• Lyx study
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day (r)

---

Looked around with roommate for housing in the neighborhood.

-0/3 -23:02

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Studying Lyx documentation.
• Work
• Brief progress report.
• GRE
• Maths problem of the day (r).

---

Received a break from work to work on school projects ^_^;

-0/4 -22:07

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Pushed forward by work.
• Work
• General meeting.
• Interface improvements.
• Coded collection of (meaningless but pretty^_^;) data for testing.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.

---

Helped a friend with job networking for the first time. Got rice porridge lunch with seafood .. it's really good. T_T

-0/5 -21:25

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pushed forward by work.
  • Discussed homework problem with instructor.
• Work
  • Finished one week worth of task assignment in a day.
  • Helped implement a long waited functionality – with refined data structures under the new API, the longest time it took to implement this was picking a color for display ^_^;
• GRE
  • Math problem of the day (almost missed -_-;;;)

Two meetings tomorrow .. ZZzzzZzz

-0/6 -19:46

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Wrote down one new hypothesis.
• Work
  • Finished initial port to the new API.
• GRE
  • Studied one book chapter on reading strategies.

Promised supervisor to give an estimation of new API migration time tomorrow .. well, an actual functional port should be a better estimation than any. ^_^;

-0/1 -00:11

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores
• Mailed rent check
• Mailed rebate form.
• Cleaned kitchen.
• Exercise
• Bike ride to campus, around campus and back.
• School
• Thesis Research:
• Hardware reinstallation.
• Work
• Progress on API migration.
• GRE
• Word root review.
• Sentence completion problem of the day. (r)

---

Finally remembered how to ride bike again -_-; Still couldn't remember how to turn well .. still, some good exercise received.

Anti-nausea snack: pear + soft drink.

-0/2 -00:09

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: GRE catching-up.

• School
  • Wrote down idea fragments for the write-up.
• Work
  • Cost estimation for API migration.
• GRE
  • Sample analysis essay reading.
  • Reviewed 5 writing flashcards.

Living skills progressing~

-0/2 -22:40

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor - more inputs on writeup.
• Work
• Testing environment setup.
• Helped with new API transition.
• GRE
• Maths problem of the day.

---

Got medication without much insurance trouble this time (soonest after hospital visit for me, too) .. this time if I start it can stuck with me for a while. -_-;

-0/3 -21:33

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Discussion with professor.
    • Getting ready to write up on data preprocessing.
• Work
  • Obtained discs for testing environment.
• GRE
  • Antonym problem of the day. (r)

Hospital + personal development day of the month.

-0/4 -21:18

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: housing planning -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Learned about new work management method.
• Work
• Design problem discussion
• New API migration.
• GRE
• Antonym problem of the day.

---

Going to hospital again tomorrow .. at least it's first time in a while :)

-0/5 -19:02

Weather:

Overcast: nap -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Atypical pattern investigation.
• Work
• Brief progress report.
• GRE
• 7/7 reading comprehension questions in 11 minutes -_-;
• Vocabulary advances from audio book
• Widget antonym refreshing.

---

Laptop maintenance is coming to an end, hopefully.

-0/6 -20:16

Weather:

Rain: misc. business -> Sunny

• Housework:
• Minor cleanup.
• School
• Thesis Research:
• Methodology discussion & note taking.
• GRE
• Vocabulary test -> 75% -_-
• Antonym problem of the day.

---

Stayed alive by sheer luck .. still, trying getting healthy while I am at it .. but somehow today I forgot how to ride bike -_-. I guess things like that don't always come back to me - my roommate was astonished. _-_;

-0/0 -21:53

Weather:

Overcast: overslept + oversetup

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Pattern study.
• GRE
• Reading strategies.
• Found one book on writing.

---

A potential new roommate coming to check out the house tomorrow. Got a little housework to do.

-0/1 -23:38

Weather:

Partly Cloudy: Overslept -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Finished reading the last journal article.
• GRE
• Finished one thrillionare antonym game.

---

Cooked some dumplings again today - without breaking any. ^_^ Found a way to reduce cooking time as well. (still takes 20 minutes -_-)

-0/3 -01:14

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: lagging calendar updates -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Pushed over by work.
• Work
• Decent progress on feature transition.
• Fixed one critical bug.
• GRE
• Antonym overviews from the desktop widget.
• Sentence completion problem of the day.

---

Diagnosed and fixed a bug that was regarded by others as untraceable framework problem, with three lines of code. ^_^

Found the best clear-typed programming font I've seen in a while. Who wouldn't need a font that you might actually want to stare at all day? :P

-0/3 -23:28

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Resumed reading the last journal article
• Work
• Continued bug-fixing.
• Parallel progress on feature transition.
• GRE
• Antonym problem of the day
• Resumed one chapter in the audio book.

---

Got bubbles under the paint at the bottom of the laptop -_-. Chatted with Dell and got replacement parts shipped overnight and arriving next day. They even will come to the house and pick up the returned parts on a phone-call. Looks like a bigger warranty does actually carry more comfort.

-0/4 -23:58

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress
• Work
• General meeting
• Group meeting w/ heavy design discussions
• Studied a weird bug.
• GRE
• Permutation problem of the day.

---

Shifting sleep schedule.

-0/5 -19:23

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Learning new patterns.
• New development environment setup.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• Sentence Completion problem of the day

---

Received big revelation of the day.

-0/7 -00:57

Weather:

Sunny

• Housework
• Cleaned bathroom
• Vaccumed living room, bathroom and the kitchen.
• Work
• Submitted bimonthly report.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day
• Analogy + antonym review using a Yahoo! widget.

---

Geez.. looks like while lengthing lifecycle is hard, dying is getting hard as well. ^_^''

-0/0 -22:27

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Algorithm contemplation
• Work
• New equipment.
• GRE
• Sentence completion problem of the day

---

Almost fully equipped for productivity now. Managed to swap a harddrive out of a supposedly not-for-opening case without breaking anything, biggest hardware hack in a while. :P

-0/1 -21:12

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Finished 2/3 of a journal article.
• Work
  • Meeting for requirement updates.
• GRE
  • Math + analogy + reading comprehension problem of the day.

If I get to have a long weekend … I wonder how much could be done.

-0/3 -00:45

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with adviser, first task direction decided.
• Work
• Collaborative coding
• Communication
• GRE
• Reviewed 35 words
• Analogy problem of the day

---

New constraints made it tougher than I expected .. even though no major violation of order is occurring, it might be helpful to watch behavior harder.

-0/4 -01:50

Weather:

Overcast: missed class -> Sunny -> Overcast:

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Further discussion with course professor on project relevance.
• Read one journal article on tangential topic.
• Revision on one past experiment.
• New software installed for facilitating journal article annotation.
• Work
• Minor information exchange.
• GRE
• Vocabulary review
• Picked audio book back up.

---

I had a poor new roommate. -_-

-0/5 -08:00

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: overshopping

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Discussion with a professor on potential class project connections.
• Work
  • Design discussions
  • Shifted role into support coding for deadline meeting acceleration.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

… a fairly productive workday otherwise. The supervisor is going to cover me for my temporary full-time support role so I could potentially free up other people from their task for support. Going to experiment with it and see how much progress I can help create.

-0/5 -23:57

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Started hand evaluation of data.
• Work
  • Finished some big chunk of implementation.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

A good night's sleep is very nice for a workday.

-7/0 -00:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Extra manual experiments.
• Obtained some unsorted data. Need to examine them by hand. ^_^;
• Work
• Looking for alternative protocol implementation with no success.
• GRE
• Antonym of the day.
• Examined 16 words in the audio book archive, categorized some of them in my own vocabulary list.
• Vocabulary review.

---

A bare survival with mistakes and accomplishments .. should have a little more common sense by now, hopefully.

-0/0 -18:16

Weather:

Sunny-> Storm: expected -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Experiment with applied knowledge.
• Work
• Heavy research on the implementation of a protocol.
• GRE
• Antonym of the day.

---

Operas are quite wonderful.

-0/1 -19:41

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: no significant progress
• Work
  • Started writing new feature.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Severe misbehavior alarm #_#

 

-0/2 -22:56

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Studying overlaps.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• Permutation problem of the day.

---

Got a mouth ulcer and it causes headaches. T_T Hope a little more sleep would help that.

-0/3 -20:06

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Discussion over human study.
• Work
• Very little progress on the new feature implementation.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day
• Vocabulary review

---

Had long long hours of pleasant conversation with my new roommate today. From religion to anthropology to language to music to computer science to medication to photography ... he has a contemplative mind. :)

-0/4 -22:17

Weather:

Storm: misbehavior -> Sunny -> Overcast: single tasking

• School
  • Thesis Research: no significant progress (some new motivation ^^)
• Work
  • Finally found one good article to help make one decision over many implementation methods.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review
  • Analogy problem of the day

Almost lost my bag today … spent a few panicked hours to find it, in vain. But just as I started to think about how to live without it and started lining up the most important course of actions to take before most of the lost could be recovered, my bag magically appeared in a place I already looked at least twice -_-; Guess I was just too anxious to see clearly.

-0/6 -01:52

Weather

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: unsettled business

• School
  • Class:
    • Bill paying
    • Registration
  • Data mining project idea
• Work
  • No significant progress
• GRE
  • Reviewed 30 words.

Finally got department to take care of my bills, but one of the classes turned out full -_-; Have to sort it out tomorrow.

-0/7 -01:12

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• New study notes.
• GRE
• 23 Antonym + 15 Analogy + 10 sentence completion practice.

---

Some business needs to be settled soon~

-0/0 -23:56

Weather:

Sunny

• Housework
  • Roommate got a new, used, unclean-for-a-decade carpet for almost free. Spent almost a whole day refurbishing it. It actually turned out pretty good looking after getting 10 full vacuum-loads of dirt out and putting one full-bottle of carpet-cleaner on it. Satisfied and exhausted. ^_^''
• School
  • Found an old data file that is actually pretty much quantized – and wrote down an inspiration on the notebook.
• GRE
  • Antonym problem of the day.

There was someone who knew little of what I knew but dared to do everything that I didn't. So I offered him my knowledge and tried to borrow from his courage. It's interesting how knowledge could be easy to share but sometimes hard to comprehend, while courage could be easy to comprehend, but sometimes hard to receive.

-0/1 -20:01

Weather:

Partly cloudy: thesis block -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Prediction contemplation.
• Work
  • Continued API study.
• GRE
  • Antonym problems of the day.

Stocked some good healthy food today .. have to learn a bit more cooking to increase my (real) life expectancy.

-0/3 -01:12

Weather:

Sunny->Thunderstorm: misbehavior->Overcast

• Housework
• Vacuum finally fixed. Ran it through whole house.
• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor.
• Read one more journal article.
• Work
• Continued a little algorithmic study.
• GRE
• Found a new practice questions repository.
• Antonym practice.

---

Gave birthday present to roommate today :)

Finding data, data, and a manageable task ...

-0/3 -22:26

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Read three journal articles and extracted one quotations.
• Found the most complete resource repository available - in the most machine-unreadable format. TTTTTT_TTTTTT
• Work
• Finished one preliminary transition.
• Researched some new APIs.
• GRE
• Vocabulary review.
• Analogy and maths question of the day.

---

Solution to the thesis data source problem: 1. find good methods to process data to get the conformity I want. 2. manually inputing good data set by hand from that machine-unreadable source. T_T

-0/5 -00:27

Weather:

Sunny/Partly Cloudy: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress.
• Work
• Coding
• Learning new framework features
• GRE
• Finished audio book.

---

It might make it a little harder to adjust the sleep schedule if I keep napping during the day .. I could think of two solutions.

-0/6 -01:01

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Wrote down some new thoughts in the notebook.
    • Read part of a new journal article.
• Work
  • A little coding.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Thesis work is both getting more interesting and blocking at the same time ^_^; Hope this week's meeting could bring some more idea.

-0/0 -01:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Resarch:
    • Read a somewhat irrelevant journal article.
• GRE
  • Did one verbal practice test and realized I don't have the answer key … T_T Going to look for them online.

Pretty much determined to live through this week right now. Although I have more things I need to figure out now … hope I found my answers quickly enough.

Oh, another mental shift today worked out pretty well. =)

-0/0 -23:48

Weather:

Sunny

• Housework
  • Roommate out for the weekend. Partially cleaned the kitchen for him.
• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read one journal article. Learned the concepts of a blackboard system.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 20 words

Achieve a deliberate mental task shift today. There's going to be less time overall, but it still looks like a lot of things can be done, and it's not necessary to pass away before then. =)

-0/1 -18:08

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress
• Work
  • Confirmation of interface change.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review

Finished poetries ... hopefully it would not be the only product for the sacrifice.

-0/3 -01:10

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: overslept

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read one journal article.
    • Reorganized research notes.
• Work
  • One coding task accomplished.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review
  • Almost finished the current audio book.

A beanbag in the office moves the place fifty stories closer to heaven...

-0/3 -22:39

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Idea discussion
• Work
• Demonstration in the meeting a pleasant success.
• Overcame big problems for collegue through the osmosis of absorbing knowledge from the universe ^_^
• GRE
• Vocabulary review

---

Got what I was expecting today .. almost like getting a second life, no matter whether I'd be worth it, it is always worth appreciating. :)

-0/4 -21:25

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Contemplation over hypothesis.
• Work
  • Finished a simple demonstration for tomorrow.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 44 words. 100% recall.

Block on poetry => progress on work. -_-'

-6/0 -00:12

Weather:

Sunny

• Work
  • Design discussion
• School
  • Thesis Research
    • No significant progress
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review

I thought I heard thunderstorm yesterday .. but it was utterly sunny all day .. so one poem was pretty much finished, and somehow I was permitted to live. I know what this would mean, though.

 

-0/0 -00:15

Weather:

Partly cloudy: -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Studied limited transposition.
• Work
  • Studied a bit on the new framework capabilities.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Writing poetry again, it feels good to be still able to do that. And writing really is fed by impulses … at least if this kills me, I'd leave something behind.

-0/0 -23:34

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: caught on unexpected business.

• Work
  • Pushed by unexpected business.
• GRE
  • Half way through the current audio book.
  • Vocabulary review and addition.

Unexpected businesses indeed … big and tough ones, too … But there's enough urgency behind that personal work priority could be put off justified. Had to use Goal Ascension again in work to get past this week, it probably wasn't wise enough of me to think I'd be worthy of living for longer periods anytime soon =_=

-0/1 -21:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Free-writing
• Work
  • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Suddenly found so many things to write about .. got a little arm-fatigued today, had to push the writing urge for later now.

-0/2 -21:09

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Meeting with advisor.
• Work
  • Design discussion and notes.
• GRE
  • Analogy & math problems of the day.
  • Vocabulary review

Generalized an interesting GRE math problem that involved a recursive relationship, in the test it could only be solved with enumeration at small input numbers. After generalizing the problem and defining the relationship, plugging in 100 as input yields a number larger than the radius of the observable universe in meters XD

-0/3 -19:09

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research
    • Tried to compile some Lisp program -_-'
• Work
  • Regular meeting
• GRE
  • 1/3 through the current audio book

On impulse, wrote a long commentary on one of the recent novels today. Writing is such an enjoyable activity .. only if I can find myself more time in life to do it.

-0/4 -18:23

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • New experiment.
• Work
  • Interface improvements for custom class.
• GRE
  • Two chapters of audio book.
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Meeting at 11 tomorrow ... need to get some sleep before that.

-0/5 -22:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Extended earlier experiment.
• Work
• Design discussion
• Coding
• GRE
• Vocabulary Review
• Antonym drill.

---

Seems like studying with people is nice.

-0/0 -01:48

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: unaccounted business -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Minor adjustments to the experiment yesterday.
• GRE
  • 6 audio book chapters.

Helped a friend move today, got a lot of free stuff from her house, including a new laptop bag. :) Also got plenty of groceries for next week, actually wishing I can get a beanbag so I don't have to use my laptop in bed. (also maybe one would make it nice to live in the office longer) Let's see if I can make it to next week first.

-0/0 -23:03

Weather:

Overcast: work reallocation

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Experimented with morphing of phrases.
• GRE
  • Practiced analogy.

With steady office time set up next week, saving hours for incoming assignments.

-0/2 -0:53

Weather:

Overcast -> Rain: overslept

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read half of one new journal article.
    • Topic discussion.
    • Wrote example notes.
• Work
  • Added a new software behavior.
• GRE
  • New software for Analogy / Antonym training.
  • Analogy practice + reading hints. (positive > negative)

Got some very exciting perspectives today, I love my roommate :P

-0/2 -22:57

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: small party

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Read two journal articles (and three patent applications ^_^'').
• Work
• Revised report to meet new specification.
• GRE
• Did two practice verbal sections, a little rushed (finished 5 minutes early), 72%. T_T
• New software test simulator with plenty to practice with.

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Roommate leaving for Indonesia tomorrow, took a little time off. :P He left some very helpful GRE study material for me, though.

-0/3 -22:33

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: napped

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Mass discussion
    • Free writing
• Work
  • Meeting
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Got a cool new semi-supervisor at work, who assigned me the second greatest number of tasks among everybody and expected me to do it in half of my time - truthfully speaking, I should be capable of finishing it in collectively one-third of the time I have before the deadline. On the other hand, he had got himself the greatest number of tasks among all; and while he assigned a secondary to help with almost every primary task, he didn't assign anybody to help himself – well, he didn't assign anybody to help me either, which at least meant he trusted me as much as he trusted himself. We had pleasant long talks in the afternoon and I already like him a lot. I might be able to help him later in some way. :)

-0/4 -22:17

Weather:

Cloudy -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read part of a new paper.
    • Learning slightly more LaTex.
• Work
  • 80% through complete refactoring.
• GRE
  • Finished a second Audio book.
  • Registered online to get reading materials.

Please think of the children, for real.

-0/5 -22:46

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: nap -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Reviewed one journal article (with notes).
    • Discussed about objectives.
• Work
  • Helped with bug fixing.
  • Finalized report document.
  • I love refactoring my own code. ^_^
• GRE
  • Got one of the best books ever from roommate. Set a goal to finish it.
  • Got a much clearer idea of the test experience from roommate, looks like I still have a little way to go: for starters, getting under 3 minutes per 4 reading comprehension problems, and at least finishing the paper practice tests on time.

Even knowing always that there are a lot of things I could do, it never failed to marvel me when the actual possibilities stroke me in the face. I am still pretty far from my limits, but every now and then I could make a move to push myself closer. The simple knowledge of there being a place for me to go is an exuberant one, and the pursuit of that place alone is a good enough reason for me to stay alive.

Barely saved

Weather:

Nice and sunny.

• Housework
  • Vacuum cleaner still not working.
  • One roommate plays prank on the other roommate .. the house will probably be a mess till the middle of next week =_='
• School
  • Thesis Research: played around with a new discovery.
• Work
  • Finished the first complete draft of the report.

Finally, a nicer day than the whole past week, and realizing the use of goal ascension for the first time since this started. Life is extended for now at a pretty significant cost, but the channel for a longer-period ticket is discovered. I should at least have a chance to get there.

-0/0 -21:50

Weather:

Sunny

School:

• Thesis Research
  • Contemplation of some new hypothesis.
• Work
  • Continued work on the report.
• GRE
  • New audio book.

Might be hard to make it this week even if taking the experiment into account, at least I will still get up tomorrow :)

-0/1 -21:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: evaluated new software.
• Work
  • Progress on report.
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Participated in some neat experiment in medical school today, took a lot longer than expected there but it was fun. The weekend might be even more fun now. :)

-0/3 -04:28

Weather:

Sunny->Rain:

• School
  • Thesis Research: meeting with advisor, registration, new reading material, experimented with some cool software.
• Work
  • Solved problems for a coworker.
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.
  • Finished one audiobook.

Did some bloody blookwork in hospital today .. me – lots of blood + lots of food = sleepy .. -_-

-0/4 -01:28

Weather:

Mostly Cloudy -> Partly Cloudy: watched some TV.

• School
  • Thesis Research: learned more LaTex.
• Work
  • Impromptu meeting. Future meeting time changed to 11:00
• GRE
  • More audio book.

Signed up for some hearing experiments on Friday, needed to do bloodwork in hospital tomorrow .. the rest of the week is going to be dangerous.

-0/5 -02:32

Weather:

Sunny->Rain->Sunny: delayed schedule.

• School
• Thesis Research: Learned basic LaTex.
• Work
• Significant performance enhancement in code.
• Meeting to gather information for upcoming report.
• GRE
• Further in audio book

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Meeting at 8:30 tomorrow .. hopefully.

-0/6 -00:25

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: Fixed some problems in the new hardware.
• Work
  • Algorithm discussion
  • Helped with UI design
  • Commited recent code changes
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Had a nice dinner tonight, started filling wordlist again. ^_^

-0/6 -22:38

Weather:

Sunny -> Rain: unsettled business -> Sunny

• Housework
  • Laundry
  • Vacuum cleaner broke. T_T
  • Roommate accidentally punched a hole through the bathroom wall. O.o
• Work
  • Finished pretty much all coding work assigned at the present.
• GRE
  • Progressed in the audio book.

Barely got through this week … now there's a huge non-coding part of the work to do :P

Also, realized that the novels provided more than just vocabularies, might keep reading a little.

-0/0 -23:46

Weather:

Sunny->Partly Cloudy: unsettled business->Sunny

• Housework:
• Roommate got to it before me :(
• School
• Thesis Research: found very interesting relevant research.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day

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From the looks of it, might not be able to overwork within this weekend .. which means two more weeks of single-weekitude. T_T

-0/1 -21:49

Weather:

Overcast -> Sunny -> Overcast: unsettled business

• School
  • Thesis Research: Almost done configuring new hardware .. it keeps crashing T_T, used some programs and did some writing work to test. Wrote down a new idea.
• Work
  • Continue saving hours.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary Review
  • Started listening to some audio book

Need to catch up some sleep again.

-0/2 -21:46

Weather:

Sunny->Overcast: slept in->Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research: thoughts on model, configuring new hardware.
• Work
• Saving hours.
• GRE
• Finished Shadow of the Giant, two new words total from the second half .. no new novel besides radio starting now.

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Not much working hours left this week .. depends on how the progress in the other two go, might work into next week's hours. :P

-0/4 -02:27

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: no significant progress. Ordered some much needed hardware.
• Work
  • Meeting held.
  • A little more coding.
• GRE
  • Finished half of Shadow of the Giant

Just realized that the total number of new vocabulary I gained from the whole 'Bean quartet' of Card's is still fewer than 100. Granted, the grasp of those I did learn had been decent. But it's probably time to start piling practice tests on top of me once I ran out of novel to read.

Also remembered today how nice striding down the streets between the school and the house is, especially when it's Sunny outside. One can actually get some good amount of thinking done while counting steps, more so if you walk to some neat rhythm. ^_^

-0/4 -22:32

Weather:

Overcast -> Sunny -> Rain -> Sunny -> Rain -> Overcast -> Sunny: … unsettled business

• School
  • Thesis Research: Meeting with advisor; Noted down some empirical data.
• Work
  • Back to coding again. ^_^
• GRE
  • Read 2 chapters of Shadow of the Giant.

It wouldn't hurt to try existing algorithm for thesis first .. but training data is difficult to gather, and many changes to algorithm might still be necessary.

-0/5 -23:06

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: pushed by work.
• Work
  • Finished whitepaper.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

Did not get up early enough to allow for thesis study .. but got a satisfying chunk of work done. Going to sleep earlier today :)

-0/6 -22:22

Weather:

Overcast: used up free life -> Sunny

• Work
  • Heavy research for the whitepaper due next week.
• GRE
  • Did first practice test over the verbal section (under a headache), got at the 80 percentile :(

Used up the free life from last week .. harder struggles are going to come up. But fortunately, still have some life to deal with them :P

-0/0 -23:54

Weather:

Clear -> Overcast: tight weekend-> Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: thoughts over potential algorithms.
• Work
  • Researching for the document.
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Tightly hanging on to the schedule .. a really big chunk of work needs to get done tomorrow.

-0/1 -23:37

Weather:

Sunny ^_^

• School
• Thesis Research: Played around a little more with the software found yesterday. Wrote some cadenza with it.
• Work
• Finally got hold of the boss, and received a pretty urgent assignment immediately.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day.

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Challenges ahead in both work and thesis. Looks like a busy weekend again. :)

-0/3 -00:27

Weather:

Overcast: low productivity

• School
• Thesis Research: Compiled and evaluated a number of utility programs. While unable to configure any of them to suit all needs, some seemed enhanceable enough through extra coding.
• Work
• Still unable to catch boss, focusing on thesis today.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day.

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Designing a good human experiment is not an easy task. Also realized how bad my laptop's soundcard is .. -_-; Work has not been moving much this week yet .. hope I'll be able to catch boss tomorrow.

-0/3 -22:17

Weather:

Cloudy -> Rain: extremely tight week.

• GRE
  • Set a new 45:1 record in GRE hangman. Gathered a few new words.
  • Finished Shadow Puppets, gathering 20+ vocabularies.

Done fixing friend's problem today. Moving about too much to do much work or thesis, but still got some GRE study done. Looks like I'd be busy till the end of Sunday the rest of the week.

-0/4 -22:51

Weather:

Clear -> Cloudy: pushed off work

• School
  • Thesis Research: reviewed proposal topic with thesis advisor, prepared an interesting demonstration and had some very good discussions.
• Work
  • Pushed forward by helping people.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 40+ words.
  • Catching up with daily analogy and antonym problems.
  • 3/4 done reading Shadow Puppets

Got invited to a friend's house to help fixing some problems. Also failing to find boss today .. will catch up on work later this week. Some very encouraging progress on the thesis proposal today, on the other hand. :)

 

-0/6 -00:06

Weather:

Clear

• School
• Thesis Research: personal investigation of the hypotheses.
• Work
• Prepared to meet with boss tomorrow.
• GRE
• Finished over half of Shadow Puppets .. taken from 5 chapters as many new words as there used to be from one chapter .. think it's mainly due to Card instead of me.

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Scheduled Wednesday at someone's house to help with some problems, making the week tight again.

-7/0 -00:44

Weather:

Partly Cloudy: tight week.

• School
• Thesis Research: read one chapter of the thesis found yesterday, and some other literature, listening to input from people, one more refined idea in the proposal.
• Housework
• Cleared up and filed away one archival box in the room.

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A practice GRE test + 9 more hours of thesis work next week.. oh, what month is it now?

-0/0 20:13

Weather:

Mostly Cloudy: still living on free life.

• School:
  • Thesis Research: read a little more of the paper from yesterday. Found a Ph.D thesis relevant on the topic.
• GRE:
  • Got a 50 : 4 score on GRE hangman today~ before the browser crashed :D
  • Read a quarter of Shadow Puppets, the next OSC sequel. There seemed to be not as many new words now :X

Found myself a lot of papers to read for thesis ^_^ .. deciding whether I should push chores off to next week instead.

-0/1 -23:01

Weather:

Mostly Cloudy: free +1UP ..

• School
  • Thesis Research: read the introduction of a paper.
• Work
  • Finished some beautiful refactoring. Now the code looked nothing like when it was handed to me.
  • Work plan for next week in place.
  • Weekly meeting revived again.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 50+ words.

Was practically ordered to live next week by boss .. overworked today about 9 hours into next week. Also finally caught up with the potential thesis advisor who has been too busy to respond to my email. Have to schedule an appointment with him next week .. at least I will have more hours for thesis by then.

Well, 1UPs were good surprises, except that now my days would have to remain to be counted by week for an extra two weeks after next .. :-\

-0/3 -0:07

Weather:

Partly Cloudy: suboptimal productivity -> Rain: caught by work.

• School
• Thesis Research: wrote down some creative thoughts.
• Work
• Finished activity report.
• Lots of maths solved, dug a lot more new problems up. ^_^
• GRE
• Pushed forward by work.

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Got a new work environment set up at the office desk .. best IDE configuration I've created so far. Also set up an remote desktop server forwarding from the office to the lab, so now the work environment is ubiquitous. :P

-0/4 -1:29

Weather:

Partly Cloudy: unsettled business

• School
  • Thesis Research: read 4 more chapters of the book from 2 weeks ago.
• Work
  • Worked on some math problems. :P
• GRE
  • Reviewed analogy problem of the day.

The weather might get unpleasant for a while ... need to catch up.

-0/5 -1:49

Weather:

Clear -> Overcast: did not go to school early -> Clear -> Rain: unsettled business.

• School
• Thesis Research: contemplating on methodologies again, with some slight progress.
• Work
• Activity report meeting, demonstrated some pleasing work.
• Helped people in the migration effort to enhance code-sharing.
• Set up a work machine.
• GRE
• A few new vocabularies.
• Missed an analogy and a math problem! >(

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Could have been doing thesis and work at the same time today - while setting up Vista. At least got an extra hour of GRE study done. Need to gain some sleep back, though .. maybe by going to bed early today.

-0/5 -23:55

Weather:

Overcast: got up late, sleep debt -> Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: contemplated methodologies a little bit without much progress.
• Work
  • Code refactoring
• GRE
  • Vocabulary gathering

Seemed like I've built up some sleep debt over the past weeks .. paying a little bit of it back today. I'm not staying up all night though, which is a good thing. Guess I'll have to get as much sleep as I could this week when I don't have to be up.

Fun week ahead

Weather: Rain -> Overcast: survival race

But it finally cleared up ^_^

• School
• Thesis Research: emailed out thesis proposal draft.
• GRE
• Vocabulary gathering.
• Solved analogies of the day.

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Pheww.. really the tightest week to survive thus far. But the fun part is about to begin. A lot of exciting work and thesis research to expect next week. :)

-21:20

Weather:

Overcast: tight weekend -> Clear

• Housework:
  • Finished laundry.
• School:
  • Thesis Research: Read another paper. Pretty much worked out an idea for the proposal.
• GRE:
  • Read a little bit of Shadows of the Hegemon, collected a few words and decided to keep reading for now.
  • Solved some analogy and antonym problems.

Realized the need to do laundry today .. seemed like some more chores needed to be scheduled for next week, if it comes.

The thesis idea is getting some good progress towards formalization. Some more input is definitely needed.

-0/1 -22:38

Weather:

Rain: unsettled business -> Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: Read one paper.
• Work
  • Had a small meeting with two others. Seemed to have pleased the boss with the work.
• GRE
  • Finished Ender's Game, an interesting novel. Got about 20 new words out of the last two chapters.
  • Added a few new vocabularies into my wordlist.

Still could not catch the professor for a thesis discussion, but plan on sending an email out in the weekend. Only 3 hours to spare if I don't finish the chores early .. this week is actually really tight ^_^;

-0/2 -23:42

Weather:

Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: couldn't catch the professor today, but finally got some time to make amendments to the proposal.
• Work
  • Great new progress in many things, even though the meeting was still not held. Seemed like there's always work to do when you look for it. :)
• GRE
  • Collected more words from Ender's Game, almost finishing the novel now.
  • Posted my first comment on TakeGRE.com. But made a mistake in one of the problems. :(

Actually got done with work the fastest this week among the past three, at the sacrifice of thesis research time. It'll be thesis and GRE weekend from now :P

-0/3 -19:47

Weather:

Clear

• School:
  • Thesis Research: pushed forward by work again.
• Work:
  • Finished everything from yesterday.
• GRE:
  • Gathered some more vocabularies
  • Got up to 19:2 win/lose ratio on the GRE hangman game.

Pretty much done with all tasks at work .. although still have quite a few hours to fill. Have to find something new to do now.

-0/4 -22:31

Weather:

Rain: unsettled business -> Clearer

• School
  • Thesis Research: pushed forward by work.
• Work
  • Not able to set up meeting. Did some bug-fixes for other people.
• GRE
  • Did Analogy and Antonym of the day.
  • Word gatherings.

If work stays busy like this, might be difficult to catch the professor for a thesis discussion … need to work it out.

-0/5 -23:46

Weather:

Rain: got up late -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: minor thoughts on the proposal.
• Work
  • Discussion with coworkers over some big task.
  • Read some reference materials.
• GRE
  • Started my own wordlist on GoogleDoc.
  • Practiced reading comprehension. 10 minutes for a passage. Missed 1 problem.

Lost many hours today :( But still got some done. Need to go to bed earlier tonight.

-0/7 -0:31

Weather:

Sunny : Vacation Day

• GRE
  • Passed quizzes for about 50 words.
  • Found a neat version of Barron's word list with pictures, a free GRE question of the day, and even a GRE hangman game. (only maintaining a win/loss radio of a little above 2 so far ..)
  • Bookmarked a couple of GRE vocabulary sites on roommate's WII, now the whole house is studying GRE now. ^_^ .. guess anything on TV is just more fun.
  • Since it's hard to find a suitably-tuned vocabulary list, building my own is starting to sound like a good idea.

The Renaissance Fair was pretty interesting. Too bad I didn't end up making up my mind to buy anything (besides a slab of teri-yaki-yaki beef jerky ^_^;;). But met an amicable musician and got to try playing a really nice harp. It was a good time indeed.

And yes, got a new life extension half an hour ago. Need to make time to plan for next week tomorrow. :)

-21:22

Weather:

Sunny~

• School
  • Did a little more writing on thesis proposal.
• Work
  • Researched on materials for next week's task.
• GRE
  • Got rid of 100+ words from the vocabulary list.

With some really kind help, managed to study GRE at the same time as I archive my old schoolwork. :) Both were accomplished with satisfactory quality. As a reward, going to take a break at the Renaissance Fair tomorrow. Only 2 hours of GRE study is left for this week. Life expectancy is high, hope it would continue to carry on.

-0/1 -21:09

Weather:

Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: overworked on it a little bit today. But there was some good inspiration.
• Work
  • Meeting still not held. Helped some other people with their work.
• GRE
  • 8 hours left for the rest of the week. Tomorrow is going to be GRE day.

If tomorrow goes well, I might get a vacation on Sunday as well as an early life extension! ^_^

-0/2 -23:56

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: learned new things from a book, too much study to do, move GRE to tomorrow.
• Work
  • Meeting cancelled. Reserved three hours tomorrow for the meeting and follow-up tasks. Pretty much finished everything else that was left.
• GRE
  • Pushed forward by thesis research.

Finally got some time and inspiration to work on thesis .. if only my office has a couch...

-0/3 -22:28

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: playing piano

• School
  • Recorded an interesting choir sample in my kitchen. (under a very coincidental situation)
• Work
  • Finalized one big technical document.
  • Finally worked on some code again for the first time since last week.
• GRE
  • Studied 25 more words with WordHacker

A lot of thesis research got pushed forward due to work ... need to work hard on that in the next three days.

-0/4 -20:57

Weather:

Clear

• School
  • Thesis Research: found something difficult to analyze. (Hmm ...)
• Work
  • Fun indeed! Almost finished with a big chunk.
• GRE
  • Studied 25 words with WordHacker (found it extremely useful).

Landlord sending people to handle the opossum (O_o) supposedly living in our garage … need to vacuum the living room again tomorrow morning : (

-0/5 -21:10

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: wrote a new sample to demonstrate variation.
• Work
  • Good communication makes good progress.
• GRE
  • Searched for vocabulary building tools. Found some flashcards, and a huge ftp archive.
  • Started using WordHacker.

It seems like work is going to be fun tomorrow. : )

One more week of life

Weather:

Nice: as I hoped

• Personal
  • Got over the phobia and started on the emails.
• Housework
  • Roommate volunteered to throw out the trash – kudos to him.
• GRE
  • Studied vocabularies from the Ender's Game novel (there are quite a bit, actually)

Well, it seemed effective a couple of minutes ago, that I received an extra week of life. Got some help planning it out, too. So now I can see to my thesis progress a little further. Two hours of extra work in the job will be needed next week in order to complete some lingering task. The rest of the paper and books in my room need to be sorted, and since I get a little more time in the week, I can double my GRE study hours. Let's see how well I do on that.

22 hours 37 minutes till my death

Weather:

Sunny all day

• Housework
  • Vacuumed the whole house
  • Sorted through all paper mails … shredded four years' worth of bank statements -_-' I should be throwing some mails away from now on … if I can get any more of them.
  • Collected garbage paper in a cardboard box.
• GRE
  • Found something hilarious on the internet, it actually has a lot of good words in it …
  • Read some experience-sharing about Argument essay writing (hey, that kind of problems might actually be useful – even though overdoing them might make you a little logically paranoid)

A pretty nice day … I mean, the weather. Hope it'll be this nice tomorrow, too.

48 hours and 3 minutes till my death

Weather:

Clear: got up early -> Rain: not sending emails yesterday … -> Sunny again: work/thesis progress

• School
  • Thesis Research: got a new theory book; written down some ideas for proposal; learned something very useful from a friend! Not telling until the proposal is finalized. ^_^
• Work
  • Gotten in all required hours for the week, definitely achieved more than authorities would expect. Working a little more in the weekend might help to clean up enough things to make most near-future tasks really comfortable.
• GRE
  • Did two one-page reading comprehension articles in 20 minutes, missed 1 out of 10 questions. Still have room for technical improvements.
  • Read half a chapter on the Logic Section.
  • Bookmarked one practice test site.

Fulfilled all 30 allocated hours for work and 20 hours for thesis (hours so solid that even bathroom break compensations were included). Personal goals mostly accomplished in work, and thesis research progressed beyond expectations. GRE progress has been steady. Now, a weekend for me to handle personal chores and resolve my emailphobia. Maybe I'd be worth living for another week then.

Ah..forgot to comment, got up at 6:30 today without an alarm clock, my sleep seemed mystical..