Our paper deadline was this morning at 10:00.  I may have been a little nasty to one or two of my colleagues and I had better apologize tomorrow. Truth is, I have never written this much of a paper, this close to the deadline. It is a pity, because it is nice work and deserves a nice paper. But I worked very, very hard on it and so did my co-author. It is just one of those things.

Now the danger is of course that I will collapse and become totally unproductive for the next four weeks. This is what usually happens after I pull a couple (or more than a couple) of all-nighters and work too hard. I become entirely useless and feel terrible about it afterwards. So my plan is to keep the pressure on as much as possible, but to also ensure that I at least get enough sleep. As this website attests, I am crap at making and following plans, and self-discipline is … well, I simply don’t know the word. Let’s just see if I can make it through February without imploding too much.