Coasting by on almost no sleep and a surprisingly light level of fatigue, it would be easy to consider writing a lunatic thing to do right now. However, it's amazing how much you can get done well while running on fumes, and this is no exception. Yes, these bank holiday weekends sure are conducive to getting sick and getting things done! In the distant past most of the best doctoral work was done while trying to remember what sleep felt like.
A computer whirs in an adjacent room, doing its best with a surprisingly heavy calculation. It may get done sometime before Christmas, unless the job can get handed over to a tougher computer, probably one with an eyepatch that keeps looking over its shoulder in case the police are watching. Can you tell 'Smokey and the Bandit' has been watched recently? Ah, it's a grand and light film to dispel those gloomy moods that befall us all from time to time. Sadly chauvinistic in places, but nowhere near as much as 'The Cannonball Run'. Hmm, did I ever write about 'The Cannonball Run' here? That's something to check in the aftermath.
Even with no sleep, and it only being the end of August, there are blackberries out there already for the picking and they have been picked handsomely (blackberries are 'moras' in Spanish, 'murés' in French, and possibly 'βατόμουρα' in Greek). Yes, the season of free food for the taking and free stings for the suffering is upon us once again, and once again there doesn't seem to be all that much foraging in this rural idyll. Don't they know that they're required to go forth and gather nature's bounty, sing songs, dance in a rural manner, and furnish pretty scenes that would make for ideal crime scenes in television detective series? Don't they? It's early days for blackberries, and the deluge of wet stuff and absence of sunshine over the last two months has made them just a bit soggy in nature so far.
If you can only keep writing in a long stream, then writing these things is incredibly easy. Not quite as easy as unicycling in a Moldovan cake shop, but close. Yes, the momentum is all you need, as well as a hazy head and a computer that's doing all the work for you in another room. With that, and with great relief for having written something coherent that doesn't relate to Blue Bananas, it's time to sign off and think about the magnificent Monday of Mathematics to come. It will involve a θ-scheme, elastoviscoplastics, and a lot of shaking of the head and worrying.
O.
PS Take that, you accursed θ-scheme, ha ha!
PPS No, nothing on 'The Cannonball Run' yet. What an oversight!
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