1. Woke up with anxiety. Been like that for quite some time. This time pressure is overwhelming. Maybe not. Maybe it's just me, always procrastinate when it comes to academics. Then have to pay it up with panic everytime the promised due dates are approaching fast. Have tried to always remember JBB's advice: Write, Do Not Wait Until Get Perfect Result. But I just can't. A friend also gave good suggestion: For Now, Finish Quick Not Finish Well -- I wish these two were complementary for my case. Apparently not. Maybe, I have to lower my expectation. Am in denial: I am Pinocchio. Where's Jiminy Cricket?

2. Conclusion: Life is still the same. Wake up at 6: then daily errands to do. Get to office at 8 or 8.30, preceded by: coffee and something (if Panera: Colombian blend or Costa Rican conquistadores plus chocolate croissant; if Espresso Royale: Ethiopian or Mexican plus chocolate muffin). Oh, on the way from coffee shop to Mumford Hall, grab the Daily Illini, skip most of the news but not the Boondocks. Or forget about newspaper, if NPR is more interesting. Then, office. Wake the mouse up. Enter password on the screen. Check emails. Browse the New York Times. If time permits, look quickly to any Conservative media, just to make sure not to be too Liberal-influenced. (BTW, William Safire's column today is about Saddam's capture. As usual, Safire with his insider-information-type-of-showoff like Friedman, lies). Then really start working from 9. And time flies. Lunch at 1 or 2 (Bevier or Red Herrings or any chinese restaurant on Green St; or simply some indomie of course). Get back, resume the work. And time flies. It's 4.30 or Maghrib time, whichever comes first. Go home grab some quick dinner. Relax a little bit with BBC or PBS or The Simpsons or Everybody Loves Raymond. Until 7.30 or Isha whichever comes first. Then come back to office. And time flies. Go home at around midnight. Sleep and wake up. See, life is still the same. But that's OK, I tell myself...

3. Today as it flows: Fasting. Music: Miles-Coltrane-Bechet. Reading: DI (Saddam, Boondocks), NYT (Safire: of course, biased), Train 1998 (focused on the WTP/CV), Morey et al 2003 (focused on interaction terms). Research: OxGauss (random parameter logit, singular Hessian again! oh), Stata (clogit to test standard estimates, now including attitudinal responses, converged, but what's the rationale?). Dinner: salmon-salad-tortilla. Coffee: Espresso's House. Bad(s): illegal parking twice.