i don't mean this in any sort of ridiculous metaphorical or macroscopic way. i merely don't know whether i should go to sleep. this book -- which i expected to end, but hasn't, and this time i am at a loss since i don't think the remaining books have been published yet, though i wouldn't be surprised if i were wrong -- has kept me up until 11:45 am. which is now.
i guess i should start putting times on things. i easily have the technology to do so; just one or two more keystrokes, really. (more like 25-50, but not many, considering that i have expended at least 250,000 just playing simbase games, and in practice closer to 500K. just playing the games. but i digress!) i didn't want things to be cluttered, but at least an hour will be good for the soul.
the questions! i would like to watch 24 tonight, since friday night is unclear. it's at nine pm. i am reasonably normal-slept, so if i go to sleep right now waking up at 9 is not onerous. but it would be nice to reparametrize my schedule; i could probably stay up till the sun went down, at least.
the main constraint here is that i need to do a lot of math before friday. today was the preamble; i figured out what i needed to do and how to do it. but that pesky satan is hiding around waiting to jab his pitchfork wherever i'm not careful as i write things up. fucker.
continuing with regularly scheduled programming, wrapping here hurts me. if i wrap, i only have two days before turning it in; if i don't, i have three. the other thing is tahoe. i'm torn. on the one hand, it's a new regime, and there are people i really like. on the other hand, it's expensive and my utilitarian mind screams that i will not be getting enough from the actual skiing (or snowboarding, as the case would be) to justify it, and the rest is not gravy so much as vanilla ice cream. in that it goes with things, it makes things better, but it's also damn good on itself. and what i really want is some quality vanilla ice cream, if you get my drift. but i understand the concept of the social mediator, and so...
but if i do go skiing, it makes wrapping necessary before then, since all of a sudden the daylight becomes key. you see the problems here. we'll see how the next day or two go work-wise; i'll play it by ear, of course. just like ender.
and, of course, there's the X factor with respect to skiing. we'll, um, see how that plays out.