The Situation Room: Current State of PhD Work

I have had couple of papers and a poster accepted/published in conferences. Initially, I had problems with problem-ridden simulator that I was to fix. But thanks God, the confidence is coming back slowly but surely. I am now working on a very challenging work, which I think has a very high potential in the research community. I will have to make a perfect balance of work and plan to make things happen in due course of times. The only worry is that the tool that I am developing has gone to a level of difficulty, which is increasingly becoming hard to manage and slower to execute even with a fast machine. We would have to see the developments in the forthcoming days. PhD is ... sometimes too much hard work, hard play.... and sometimes dillydallying since nothing comes up in voidness of thoughts.