The thrills of research!

I am currently in the process of finalizing a paper that I hope to submit to a visual computing conference. The deadline is Monday, and actually, I don't think I'm at the finalizing stage quite yet. Hence, the thrills!

Most of today and yesterday my brain has been following self-conversation patterns such as this one: "Hmm... wait is it this way or is it that way. OK, it looks like it is this way. Great, that's exactly the way I need it! ...hmm no, wait, it's not this way it's that way. Shit!!! But aha! It turns out that that is the way I need it, and not this way!! Alrig.. oh shit I was wrong it doesn't matter which way it is. WAIT!! It doesn't matter which way it is!!! It's not an issue at all!! What was I thinking!?!?"

So, it's been pretty exciting - running into last minute hurdles and effectively jumping over them. I'm pretty proud of myself, this being the first paper that is all of the below:

• on a problem I chose myself


• with a solution I researched and solved completely by myself (well, with the exception of all the previous research by other people that I used)


• for a conference I chose


• with me as the primary person pushing me to make the deadline

The reasons for the two of the last items have something to do with the conference being on Lake Tahoe in December, and me having not been skiing for the last 10 years or so, but still, I'm pretty proud of myself.

OK, back to work...