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I have decided that the number of emails in my gmail inbox is directly proportional to my stress level and therefore I am going to set up a graph of it :-)

Any other off-the-cuff methods anyone can think of? (I could certainly say that days into term, number of clothes on floor, days since laundry, etc all would be good indicators, but writing those would require manually entering data). Perhaps if I had a webcam and measured the “messiness” of my room? but how would that be calculated… I actually have a few ideas from my group project: do a SIFT match on a web cam image and compare it to the “clean” version of my room. The greater the deviation from clean, the dirtier it is. But then you need to mask certain areas (doors, chair, etc…) Perhaps if you provided some sort of image processing where areas that had high entropy grayed out, as things tend to accumulate to equal messiness rather than move swiftly.

Any other measures?

Good news comes in uhh… 3s? I guess. At any rate, I’ve now reached my good news quota. News item 1:

Bumps! We bumped up twice, in an amazingly fantastic set of races, and in retrospect I would have to say that we really did pull it off. To be completely honest I was not sure that we would be able to hold our position, let alone go up by 2. We encountered what seemed like an endless string of difficulties but every time we got past it and made the crew better. We progressed through Girton and St. Catherine’s first boats in hard fought races and save two second boat crews directly above us we are in the midst of strong first boat crews.

This is an amazing result and the culmination of years of work to put the boat in the position it is now in. We are only two places below the first division in Lent Bumps and one below the first division in May Bumps. I think every single man on this crew pulled his hardest and made the absolute best of the race. I am proud of every single one of the crew. I know that may will be hard and we will have to fight to progress through the next crew into the first division, but I guarantee you, we will do it.

Best of all, we can freakin’ drink again…