Job hunt? Thesis writing? Free time? When?

A few days ago, I sat down to sort out and find the best job hunting sites for IT people in London. I'm getting around 4-500 rss messages each week from job sites. From these, about a quarter are jobs I could apply for, and a tenth are jobs where I fit all the skills and often even have more skills which I believe would be useful to the people who wrote the ad.

The job hunting is not easy, since I'm not certain about a date which I can start. This is mostly due to my thesis having uncertain deadlines, and especially that there is no specified date for the thesis exam, which is only set to 'within six weeks counting from the date you hand in the exam'. Hearing rumors about the university changing official deadline dates from January 1st to February 1st for everyone doesn't make it is easier to tell recruiters when I can start, or if I need a couple of days free to take the thesis exam 'sometime in January, February or March'. Don't you just love university bureaucracy? A lot of it seems to be there just so that enough people have enough tasks to perform.

I was awake until six this morning, not being able to sleep from all the coffee I had yesterday. I got up three times to make notes for the thesis. After four hours of sleep, I got up and it took five minutes to program the changes - and worked right away - sometimes it's wonderful to do projects. The changes were actually not necessary, but will make it much easier to use the application. This is an area I probably focused too much on the last few days, but now my testing process of the application is much faster :-) (I really miss smilies sometimes in blogger)

Now I'm trying to decide if I should continue on the thesis report, program the last important function for the thesis software, or if I should relax for 30 minutes with lunch and maybe a walk...

I think I'll continue creating my 3D model of the Helsingborg footie stadium after finishing the programming. After some work on that, I'll probably start on creating a website for my mom, and at the same time refresh my skills with php, mysql and ajax - maybe even reinstall LAMP (Linux, Apache server, MySQL and PHP) on one of my computers to have as a local backup server :-)

I'm such a nerd after no sleep....