Commentary on last night and the morning

Last night I did something I haven't done since freshman year. I stayed up with other people while they studied though I did not have to study. It reminded me a lot of those times we (mainly Mike, Chaz, Nick, and myself- sometimes Vlad, too) stayed up till all hours of the morning "studying"/trying to convince Nick that if he didn't sleep he might die. I miss those times. There's a certain camaraderie that you only obtain when you're all exhausted, delerious, yet somehow still having fun. You desperately want to sleep, but at the same time you don't want to because it means you'll have to ruin this island of time where the rest of the world doesn't exist- it's only you, your friends, your work, and the room you're in. I wonder if I'll ever get that feeling again after leaving here.

So after voluntarily submitting myself to only a few short hours of sleep, operating on pure endorphins, I walked to work this morning. It is really an incredible morning- there's no sun out, but it's bright. It's not cold, but there's a chill in the air. The students are out and about because of finals, and everything just feels so... relaxed.

It was really quite lovely.