**Pretend to be busy** {{:pretend_to_be_busy.png?600|}} Time has come to March of this year, even though my mind was still at the beginning of the year, as if there should be prepared for a lot of things, a lot of challenging. Anxieties usually increase when people feel there are not a lot of things to do while they should do. For example, I want to learn more from Datacamp – machine learning and deep learning model optimization. Each courses are valuable and do take few hours to finish and focus on; I want to read more novels and put words into paper to improve my writing skills (A recent reading is on Haruki Murakami’s thoughts on running); I want to exercise my body to improve muscle and control weight; I want to balance my time on projects of the current work in Saskatoon and Halifax; I am willing to push a machine learning related article so as to prove my ability in this area. I should take the chances to be here, to use the resources at hand, to know the friends around. There can be seen that a lot of things to do, proposal, presentation, conference, prepare the workflow, data analysis, in the current work. If you have experienced a day pretending to be busy, and end up with void in heart, you might try the way Haruki Murakami did: By running longer it’s like I can physically exhaust that portion of my discontent.