another day wasted

[trochee]

in order to alleviate the feeling of the subject line: what I've done today. Except that this list seems to reflect the dissipation and frustrated scramble that has been my life. I have too many big projects going on: moving [again] and thesis is too much to do at once.

• went to 9am makeup class that was made up because the prof was out of town
• planned final project for course with coding partner
• ate lunch
• made list of things to do for move
• filled out change-of-address form online
• made some tentative plans for this weekend, mostly moving. cancelled some others.
• went to a computing/funding meeting for all the students of my advisor: outlook not so good
• finished writing up my homework for class mentioned above
• discovered that my parse results from last week failed rather splashily
• went to see if I had any new comics [no, third week in a row now]
• discovered that not only I but somebody else discovered segfaults in the same parser
• downloaded new version of that parser, recompiled (ain't the guy ever heard of a clean target?)
• got myself dinner
• nope, that parser fix doesn't affect the splashy failure of my parser
• did the reading for tomorrow's 9am MT reading group
• got an email at 8pm announcing that the reading group was cancelled ([sarcasm]thanks for the prompt notice, mr. organizer[/sarcasm])
• wrote a long email describing the failure to the expert in another city. Frustrating to have to wait on his response

No wonder I'm depressed and tired.

Comments

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

downloaded new version of that parser, recompiled (ain't the guy ever heard of a clean target?)

As someone who used to do professional development, i've learned some heuristics for who to take seriously as a coder, and who's a wanker that happens to use a computer.

Lack of a clean target? Waaay up there on the list.

You have my sympathies (both with the code, and with the feeling of absolute futility/overwhelming).

bleah.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

I've been working all day and I still have to write the key substance of the NSF proposal that is due tomorrow. I feel your pain. You have gotten a lot done today.