Organization
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How to be Crazy-Busy Without Losing Your Mind
→: How to be Crazy-Busy Without Losing Your MindThis post is for my friend Rachelle, who emailed me earlier this week saying, How do you stay sane with all that you do? Is the trick to carve out mini-relaxations/blow off steam whenever you can? Maybe I just haven’t given myself permission to do that enough and created a bigger problem now. First off,…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFor this week: Finish CA Assignment 3 – nearly done, just need to make minor bug fixes and write up. Recreate conversational graphs from re-factored code Create slide deck for introductory Java workshop Read 5 papers Go to the gym 3 times Rename blog (taking suggestions!) WISE coffee social WECS meeting (Women in Engineering and…
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Week in Brief: a Celebration
→: Week in Brief: a CelebrationGoals for this week were: Finish putting together presentation, record and upload it. See it here. Put together loop exercises for extra session with my DGD group. Start CA Assignment 3 (this one will apparently be shorter) – aim for half done. Marking. Read 5 papers. Join gym (physio says yoga and body pump allowed…
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When 1 Week = 7 Steps Back
→: When 1 Week = 7 Steps BackLast week, and at the start of this week I was feeling really worn out and disillusioned. Things were taking longer than they should, and despite working a lot and effectively I really wasn’t making the progress I wanted to be. I felt like I wasn’t achieving anything. What this really means, is that on…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFor last week: Finish CA Assignment 2 Read 5 papers Code more on Viz Write more on Thesis Get SVN working fully More on website Clear giant e-mail mountain Start tracking morning mood and exercise on Mycrocosm Go to my first hockey game! Also: Cleaned out fridge Swam butterfly again for the first time since…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefGoals for this week: Read 8 papers Create diagram in Visio see it here Turn plan into slides for presentation put them up on this post Get started with CA Assignment 2 Would have liked to get more done, but have answer for one question – 2 to go! Deal with final issues from marking…
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Working With People Who Suck
→: Working With People Who SuckThis post has been formulating in my head for a while now, as I thought how much I loved 7 Habits and The 4-Hour Work Week (Amazon) and all the other great stuff I’m reading. However there’s one question they don’t seem to answer – what if you have to work with someone who sucks?…
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Overwhelmed
→: OverwhelmedThe thing about focusing on effectiveness, is that everything that I put on “the List” is something I think is important. And then if I get a little behind I end up in a situation where my todo list for today has a time estimate of over 11 hours. And then I panic. Today I…
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Managing Data Across Multiple Machines
→: Managing Data Across Multiple MachinesI have a problem – I now have 4 computers. Yes, I realize this is a problem that many people wish they had, but still. I have: MacBook Air – carry about at university and use out and about, use for notes, reading stuff, and small amounts of development and document editing. 15″ MacBook Pro…