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Classes here started back up this week, and I have become frustrated at how little time I have to do my side projects. It’s not that I really should be working on these side projects, but it gives me a much needed release from the constant thinking about current classwork that my brain really needs.

I find that in my standard day at school (which is about 10-14 hours a day), I am tutoring about 30-50% of the time - even if I don’t have tutoring hours. The rest of the time is me fighting to try to stay ahead in a course. This is frustrating. Even after getting ‘ahead’, I fall behind in another. This constant back and forth is definitely not good for my stress levels!

Perhaps the bigger problem can be explained by this crappy graph I drew.

As clearly shown, when I get more and more work to do, I have a larger and larger urge to blog. However, since I have less and less time to spend on side projects, I get less blogging done. Shame really. I have a few articles that I really want to write.. particularly about Hyperconnection (that article is about 1/3 done actually) and the differences between Business People and Technology People.

Luckily, this quarter I have a programming class that is letting me get my programming fix out of the way (last quarter was rough without writing any code), so I really just look forward to having time to devote to writing and drawing. We shall see if I am able to find the time to write and draw more though. Even now I am writing this entry while I TA for a class, and have been pulled away several times to help students. I just hope I have some time to sit down and write!

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