Tough times don't last, tough people do ......i hope :)

What a week! And I have an ever more hectic one coming up!
I spent the entire day sitting at one placing trying to finish up all my deadline material for this coming week.

I have an assignment due on Monday. A final presentation and a big assignment due on tuesday. Wednesday I have two interviews - for practice really - since I'm pretty sure where I'm going to be going. Thursday I'm traveling to Redmond, i'm a little excited and a little overwhelmed by the burden. I'm going to be presenting my project to a group of hotshot designers, and they quite casually agreed that they love asking questions :). That's quite a relief - just something I needed after a week of looming deadlines.

I found the quote "I love deadlines, especially the whoosh sound they make as they fly past" funny once. Not any more.... :). Either i've lost my sense of humour or the quote has changed! Either way its not too funny anymore.

Also there was a time at IIT where I would wait for the end of semester for that long awaited break and the hope that next semester was going to be a lot less work. Now my lazy side has nothing to look forward to. Next semester is going to be more hectic that this and although i'm kind of super excited about the MoRAS course with Prof. Geroge Furnas, the reading list has me more than a little intimidated :).

Sometimes I feel that life my life can be simple too. Take a few easy HCI courses, get a decent job, party! I don't even know why I won't do that. Actually I kind of do, but its more kind of intuitive knowledge and so few people would share the view that there are times when I doubt whether i'm just deluded.

Either way I have a love hate relationship with myself. Hating myself for getting myself into taking "these" courses and loving myself for having taken them :)!

I guess i'm a simple man with complex tastes!

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