overworked

My blog may become a shrine, or at the very least, an advertising space for PhD comics, but they're just so accurate...
The rate at which things disappear FROM my to-do list - 3 lines/week

The rate at which things appear ON my to-do list - 12 lines/week (or if you take the rate of interest over the time period during which I have a meeting with my supervisor - 2 lines/5 minutes)

That latter is limited only by the speed at which I can write down and make semi-sense out of his comments.