2:34 am

It's 2:34 a.m. here in Chicago on Monday morning, and I finished my paper draft. Entirely. Woot! It's pretty solid, for a draft, but what it needs is some good editing. That may not happen until Tuesday afternoon, though, since later today is going to be one big psych study party for my final in that on Tuesday morning.

Now I am quite tired and in need of bed and a book to read for a bit for pleasure before turning out the lights. Currently I'm reading A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin, which is the second book in an ongoing saga called A Song of Ice and Fire. Each book seems longer than the one before it (this one is over 900 paperback pages), but they are weirdly intriguing, and I picked the first one up on a whim back in October at 57th Street Books here in Hyde Park. It's slow going, trying to read only really at night since there's no time otherwise, but it's a good way to transition from a day of hard reading and writing to something more mindless, something I can read without having to wonder all the while what my paper topic on it is going to be. :) Over winter break I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time reading this series.

Well, bed. Hopefully I will wake up by like 10 or 11 at the latest, especially considering that I'll have to wake up a little before 9 for my final on Tuesday. The past several days I've been completely ignoring usual sleep schedules and not actually getting out of bed until noon or so.

Sleep is so wonderful sometimes, really.