I am become Too Much Coffee Woman, destroyer of worlds

[maradydd]

All right, you pervy fuckos, here's what happened today.

Late last night, I got an email from my adviser reminding me that we really needed to get some use cases ready for the grant proposal he's writing. I'd planned on coming in to work today anyway, so I left my boss a voicemail letting him know that we needed to get that done.

After grading till about 4 am, I got up around noon and checked my mail; there was a terribly excited email from Andy saying "absolutely, yes, let's do that this morning if at all possible." Ack. I replied saying "right, I'll be in around one," dropped off the exams with Dr. Atkinson, and went to work. Andy was in a meeting, so I started reading some papers for the database research I'm working on, and eventually decided that I really ought to reply to Lucy's email about the project she wants an intern for this summer, so I got busy on that.

Suddenly, martian_bob IMed to suggest that I could turn Klein into a paper for ACL '05, and threw me a paper on link prediction in social networks. Ack again. Printed it out, printed out the paper Lucy had sent me so that I could comment on that, and when I went to the printer I noticed that Andy was in his office. He filled me in on an Exciting New Business Development That I'm Not At Liberty To Describe which my db research will be ridiculously useful for, which is Good because it means IDT has even more reason to let me do research at work. Right - even more reason to get that grant proposal ready, then! "Give me fifteen minutes to finish up this email," I said, banged it out, started reading the link prediction paper while waiting for Andy to finish the discussion he'd gotten into, and off we went to Panera (neither of us had had lunch, and it has free wifi). In one of those amazingly lucid frenzies that happen so rarely during time crunches, we came up with about five different use cases and a sensible format to present them in, fired off an example to my adviser, got back an "OK, looks good, we can talk about it more at the department party tonight," sat back and said, "Wow, we got all that done in an hour?"

What I forgot to mention is that I've been sucking down double-strength coffee ever since I got to work, and spent the Panera meeting mainlining Dr Pepper. I've had so much caffeine that I can see through time.

Comments

[elwe.livejournal.com]

"Suddenly, [info]martian_bob IMed to suggest that I could turn Klein into a paper for ACL '05,"

That would be great - I could actually meet you in person!

(assuming the stuff I'm frantically trying to finish now ends up (1) working and (2) getting accepted...)

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I don't even know when the deadline for ACL '05 is, but it sounds like fun. :)

[elwe.livejournal.com]

January 14th. It's scorched into my brain. :-)

[doissetep.livejournal.com]

I wonder how your title would (could?) be translated into Sanskrit.

I remember going to a coffee shoppe to exchange creative writing stories with a friend of mine. When I got there, I acquired some fuel for thought: a large café mocha and a generous slice of a confection entitled "dark chocolate blackout cake."

Gnoshing as I read (in a manner similar to the curiously mechanical behaviour similar to the way one eats popcorn while watching a film), I soon felt as if I was aware of a curious vibration in the very atmosphere in the room. As I would late relate to others, "I had so much caffiene, I could see through my own eyelids."

[misterpriapus.livejournal.com]

"Fucko?"

"I live in Queens"

Sorry couldn't resist.

Still I like the pervy part. We need more pervy.