too little time for programming

I tell you, I just don’t have enough time to do everything I want to, which is a very common lament, I’m sure. I’ve been working on this project called Moola Tracker for my own use, and Todd’s as well, with these specs:

  • Easily add expenses and income, noting the location I spent money or from whom I received money;
  • See a history of where my money’s going and coming from;
  • See charts and graphs because each location will be broken into types (grocery, restaurant, etc.). For example, I want to be able to see a pie chart of the types of places I spent my money in the past month;

However, I also have class to attend, homework to complete, and a new layout to which I also want to devote my time. Not to mention I enjoy watching TV, surfing the Internet, and reading. I hate having all kinds of things lined up to do but with so little time to work on them. Getting a laptop has been a big blessing for a variety of reasons, including taking notes in class quicker than by hand, but I also get distracted by it because I can so easily be programming, playing in Photoshop, and surfing the Internet when I’m supposed to be paying attention in class. I do still take notes and unearth myself from my Powerbook on occasion, but I don’t pay as much attention as I used to. Of course, in classes like discrete math it doesn’t matter, because I learn exactly jack from that lecture anyway, but I need to get better about it in microcomputer organization because his lectures are worthwhile.

I don’t know if we’re having physics lab today or not. Our report had to be turned in this morning, and lab is at 1p, so I don’t know why we would meet. Hopefully my partner returns my call or email about it. Now I’ve got to run and meet Jess for lunch.

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2 thoughts on “too little time for programming

  1. I know what you mean! I find that by the time I get up on my day off, catch up on internet/blog things, downloaded the latest thing I wanted to watch and had a bit of a tidy up online (bookmarks, etc) It’s time for work again!

  2. I have the same problem, and I’ve been out of school for 10+ years. I also found that having so many incomplete projects just turns into brain clutter, so as much as you hate to let them go .. its better to hand them off to someone else who has time to work on them.

    You may find that the first two hours after you wake up is the ideal time to do any coding, if your going to do it. Once brain clutter sets in , only sleep gets rid of it. Kind of like needing to reboot to kill zombie processes.

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