What's the metric to tell if you're over-stretched in terms of your committments? I feel like that's the case right now, but I second-guess myself and think that this is what grad students do. There's never enough time to do things as well as you would like. I once talked to a professor from a university in Canada who said that when you become a professor there's so many things to take care of that what ends up happening is that you run out of time and can't put 100% into each thing. The consequence is that things aren't completed with the anal perfection that people with PhD's desire. I see the tendency for that, and so I've been trying to plan out my Spring semester better. I already know that I won't be TA'ing anymore, which means that that will free up some time. I'm debating on whether or not to take a class or two.

Anyways, short of a complete mental breakdown, how do you tell if you're too stressed? I think for some people it involves making sure you have time for your fun activities. Maybe other people want to be calm and relaxed as they take care of things on their "to-do list". I'm not sure what it is for me. I mean, it's midnight right now and I still have a few hours of work left. Am I stressed? I dunno. I wouldn't mind being in bed right now, but this is how college life was like for me.

Maybe if I wasn't blogging I could get to bed even earlier.