[Coda]

Nnnnngh, the last couple weeks have sucked.

Sure, on a day-to-day basis it hasn't been that bad (the panic attack I mentioned a while back notwithstanding), but between taking care of my son (out of school for a week due to pneumonia) and my wife (caught the same infection), trying to prepare for my wife going out of town for a week (BlizzCon), and poor sleep (due to stress-induced insomnia and not having my wife here to sleep beside) I've fallen massively behind on work.

And it's not just any work. It's a massive project with a due date on November 15th, one that I'm responsible for as project manager and lead developer. And it's HARD. Like. REALLY hard. If you know your computational complexity theory (which I know a few of you around here at least have an inkling about it), it would have been an NP-complete problem already even without the additional constraints put on it, just to make it even harder.

I don't deal with this level of stress well. I need SOME stress to function correctly. I'm the kind of person that thrives under pressure... but this goes past critical mass. My subconscious is actively trying to subvert me. I'm feeling compulsions to go do ANYTHING but try to focus on work. (My Minecraft world has made a lot of progress! ... yeah...)

Ugh, this sucks.