Wednesday, November 15, 2006

One man stands between me and going home

It's about 3:40 pm now, I've been at lab for about 11 hours... I took a 1.5 hour nap in the morning to get a bit of a recharge. And now, I am waiting for a guy using a machine that I want to use to finish off a few more silicon processing steps before I go home, catch some sleep and wake up at about 6 pm to make it to a hot-pot dinner with a volunteer friend of mine.

After using the machine, I have about another hour of work to go heading home. Perhaps I'll make it back by, say, 5 to catch all of 30 minutes of sleep? I've done worse actually, but more for fun than anything else when I did a scooter trip to a beach party in Iwaki, slept on the beach then scootered back starting at 4 am to make a beach BBQ starting at 9 am! I got all of 2 hours (maybe even less) sleep that day.

There are of course more useful things I could be doing instead of sitting here, surfing the net and typing on this blog; like doing a paper search and getting some background materials ready to try and cut down writing time for the submittal of an abstract. But that would require conscious brain power that I don't have at the moment so I will relegate myself to some easy mindless writing.

Anyways, I should keep a stopwatch on me and time how much time I waste waiting or doing non-work related stuff. The results might be quite stunning.

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