as my computer script is running

working overnight. the lab always seems to be a different colour when it's dark outside. yellow-tinted. there's too much light. proper sleep labs keep the illumination constantly below 50 lux, which i would much prefer. it's distressing to be in light for 24 hours, and that's not something people understand unless they've tried it.

it's quiet - until you concentrate and realise that the xserve drives are humming, and the air-conditioning is singing e below middle c.

the lobster in the aquarium has gone into hiding - do they sleep at night? they never talked about that in bermuda. our lobster has several appendages missing; there used to be 2 lobsters but they fought, and as the remaining one would probably say if it could speak: you should have seen the other guy.

the water in that aquarium gets changed about once a year, by the way, and it's been a funny shade of ochre for several months now.

on my desk: an elephantine coffee mug that says "GO AHEAD, I"M ALL EARS", springfresh "azure breeze" air freshener, a siemens calendar, a demotivators desktopper (PROCRASTINATION: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now), a multi-purpose magnetom device, a stack of unmarked neuropsych tests, a permanent marker, several moldy rubber bands, CD-Rs.

and...it's done.