juggling eggs vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. ‘Don’t bother me now, I’m juggling eggs‘, means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program’s being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel The More in Gods Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Poumelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying ‘We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity.’

An addendum here, a few classes filled there and the schedules I had prepared are useless. Making a schedule here is like juggling eggs.

Playing the stock market lately has been as tricky as juggling eggs in the parlor.