February 5, 2006, 8:17pm

Can't believe I have been working in my office the whole Sunday afternoon... And it's completely dark outside.

The paper due tomorrow is about done. Need to work on my statistics assignment. Another paper due one week away. And statistics exam is coming in a little bit more than a week.

Then, another paper due. Will need to teach a lecture in March.

Just what am I doing here? It's crazy. The even crazier thing is, I'm much happier studying than working. I earned two times more in Hong Kong than here as an TA. I simply wouldn't be working on Sundays and I would complain a lot if I had to OT.

Well, I work 24 hours a day 7 days a week as a student here. But I simply have no complaint about work. I'm not doing the stupid routine office work anymore. I still remember, the supervisors in Hong Kong either didn't have SPSS in their computers, that I had to print the output for them, or they might have it printed out but they didn't know what the numbers meant. And I was blamed for not explaining to them where to look at and which numbers matter...

Much much crazier.

Here, my advisor taught me to do MANOVA. He explained to me what to do in SPSS and which numbers to look at.

The workload studying is crazy. But the nature of work makes much more sense.