Well, it took nearly 4 weeks but I finally find myself doing a consistent level of work. It’s still no where near as bad as last year—it looks like I’ll probably have most of the weekend off, again. My original assessment of the courses still seems true right now.
I’m really happy with the amount of reading this year. It’s easily half to a quarter of what I had to do last year. Furthermore, to a large degree, the readings are just refreshers of concepts from first year and how to apply them to new situations. However, the new situations are far more complex and real world than last year.
News from yesterday: I’m apparently so good at this whole creating value thing that RIMM just kicked some butt. Yesterday their stock jumped ~$3 partially on the news that the US postal service will be giving their workers BlackBerry devices to use some location based services. Then they jumped another $7 in after hours trading due to their quarter results—the iPhone did nothing but help RIMM. Yeah, all that value creation was me. 
Finally, I have a cold. 