I am stressed right now as I try to finish chapter four of my dissertation before a looming deadline. It is a snarled mess, but there is some good stuff in there. As I try not to think of it this weekend, I find myself obsessing over weird things.

• tuning my crosman air pistol obsessively
  
  
• planning on building a full fairing for my recumbent, to replace my car
  
  
• installing all sorts of weird little scripts and consolidation a lot of my data
  
  
• learning radical, invasive new productivity methods that I don't have time to learn right now
  
  
• withdrawing from real contact with spouse and family
  
  
• Guilt, guilt, guilt!
  
  
• renting too many movies
  
  
• drinking milk again (the equivalent of taking up smoking for me)