Meh.

[denny]

My brain appears to have gone on strike. I've spent the whole of this week fighting with code that I wrote myself only a week or two ago, and yet now it seems completely incomprehensible. And no, that's not because my code is always incomprehensible. I just can't seem to think.

My boss is trying to be nice about the whole thing, but we're up against some serious deadlines here (end of the financial year and stuff), and both the other coders are on bloody holiday. And now I've turned into some kind of root vegetable. Fucking great. It's getting a bit tense around here.

Comments

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Take a walk.

[dpash.livejournal.com]

Fucking sucks doesn't it. I had exactly the same thing last summer. Long-term ex-girlfriend found a new bloke less than a week before an important deadline. Somehow I managed to get to the deadline, but after that I couldn't think straight.

Caffeine!

[matt-trout.livejournal.com]

Stoke yourself up on coffee. Better still, do so without having slept properly. At some stage you'll reach the point where you can't think about enough things at once to mope and the code will pour out. You will, however, require alcohol to recover afterwards.

This got me back into the swing of things after my ex fucked me over and fucked off into the distance; just about kept me from losing any clients, too :)