The space-time conundrum.

I jinxed my weekend winning streak.

Actually, that's not really fair to say. My weekends are still mine and I don't have to spend a second of any weekend day cooking food that I won't eat but lately I have felt like I don't get as much as I would like to out of my Saturdays and Sundays. I suspect that the root of the problem lies in over-planning my time but all the things I plan to do seem so worthwhile! I want to spend time with Melisa (especially now that my weeks are so packed with school work), I want to put extra time in at the lab because I like the projects I'm working on, and I want to see my friends. It's all the usual stuff; somehow I feel so capable of accomplishing it on Friday but when Monday comes, I don't feel like I got it all done. To tell the truth, on this weekend in particular, I am trying to sandbag a bit because I really don't want to have to bring school work to Rangeley.

Two friends are out of town so I (happily) agreed to the job of giving their dog some exercise. He needs to let off a serious amount of energy on a daily basis but he has been acting aggressively toward other dogs and some people so I have to take him somewhere isolated. Fortunately, they have access to a farm so we spent a few hours yesterday and today playing chuck-it and walking around the pasture land. I forgot to wear dog-workin' jeans though, but laundry isn't as much of a hassle as it used to be. There's another weekend activity that I won't get in :-)

We have no classes tomorrow but I think I'll come to campus for a seminar on the computing software (called MatLab) we use in two of my classes. I get the sense that the morning session will be helpful in filling in some of the gaps in my understanding of how it works, while the afternoon session will be pretty intense lectures in how to get the most out of MatLab if you are already comfortable with using it. Either way, one professor promised to give us extra credit if we attend so I think it will be a good use of my time. Maybe it will get me so juiced-up that I'll come back to the lab and get lots accomplished. But, if the weather is alright, I'll probably just end up going home and grilling.

Back to work.