Aside from the concert on Friday, I devoted my entire existence last week to the latest compilers project. It came close to the difficulty of the last one if not in size then by sheer number of arcane edge cases. and I would hack one part together only to find we had to redo it elsewhere to accomodate a new test. described it best when he said, "It's like a frickin' Chinese puzzle!"
These programming projects really consume one's life. Lee and I both dreamt about code the night before the project was due.