stop the world, I want to get off

Counting this week, there are three weeks left in the semester, into which I have to shoehorn what feels like four weeks' worth of work. I started thinking about it in chronological order of classes, and came up with this:

-Final version and parallel texts for diagnostic aid (due Tuesday)
-SciTechMed final: translations, glossaries, bibliographies and analysis (due 12/15)

-Group L10N project meeting Saturday morning (due Wednesday)
-Re-rescheduled L10N class tomorrow
-L10N final project assigned tomorrow (due 12/16)

-Composition exercises (due Thursday)
-Cover letter (due Thursday)
-Final draft of final composition project (due 12/16)

And,

-WinAlign parts 4-6, due ASAP

I want today off, and I'm not going to get it. I would have tomorrow off if not for the re-rescheduled L10N class. (I would be really tempted to skip that if not for the final exam being assigned then; it's a guest lecture.) I would have Saturday off if not for the L10N project meeting. I wouldn't take both days off, mind you; I just want one day off before Sunday.

I've been skipping karate all over the place, which annoys me, but if I can't stop thinking about academia while I'm in the dojo, I'm going to get hurt. I've got too much academia hanging over me to stop thinking about it. Thinking about anything productive lately is like trying to force oatmeal through a sieve.

Yes, I'm whining. It seems to be one of those days.

random tangentially academic things

There are three people, including me, in my group for this week's L10N project. One of them is a very obviously gay man. When he found out I had been doing almost exactly what we need to do for this project for the past two weeks, he said "Marry me?" I said that probably neither of us would enjoy it very much. It amused me anyway, though.

The Northeast Ohio Translators Association is holding a two-day Trados workshop in the grad lab over vacation. Last time they did that, they screwed up all of our computers. The lab re-images itself at 5 AM every day these days (which is a bit of a pain, but it does at least keep everything running). I hope the powers that be in the lab don't relax that rule for NOTA and let them screw everything up again (although it was sort of nice to be able to put up your own desktop pictures and have them stay there.)

Anybody want to buy a 4 (I think)-year-old iBook which is going to need its screen replaced sometime in the next couple of years, once I get my new computer? (Hopefully that'll be sometime early Februaryish.) Right now the iBook has a 1-pixel-wide bright blue line running up the left side of the screen, but there's nothing else wrong with it.