11:50pm -- T minus 9 hours and 10 minutes

Tuesday, December 04, 2001, at 06:49PM

By Eric Richardson

I think a shower would help me feel better about being up, so I'm off to take one. It's 11:50pm, and I'm done reading, have a thesis, and am starting to go through the book looking for support. At this point I feel good about how things are going.