time: 2250 hours
venue: some graduate student lounge
i'm trying kill creeps on desktop tower defense. behind me, a group of people are overdosing on a combination of skittles and a drink yet to be named. its composition is roughly as follows: 7up, regular; jack daniel's; 100x mg of caffeine ("stay awake" tablet, where x is an integer greater than 1). loud music of unknown genre to me. someone else frantically typing something on a laptop computer.
and we are all trying to (pretend to) read a paper for tomorrow and write a critique of it for one of its main authors. the original plan was to read it sober, so that the brain areas for memory encoding process (the hippocampus, also the major subject of the paper) is intact, and then drink the shit and critique the paper. hoping that the caffeine helps the fountains of criticism and creativity. anyways, the hope is gone. the reward circuit yearned for caffeine a little too much for the beverage to wait in the cup.
and the crowd gets bigger.
and i wonder if my entire graduate career will be a multiplication of this night. no wonder people spend so long doing their phds.
update: the drink has just been named. it's the ghetto blaster. however, there's also an augmented ghetto blaster. not sure which is which.
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