-0/7 -02:51

Weather:

Sunny

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

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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 (!)

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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.

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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)

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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 Rain: unpublished journal, overdoing homework -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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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).

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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