Deadlines are strange creatures

My elaborate plans have been turned over a time or two recently because a pint in the evening turned out to trip my work-effort the next morning. But it still came about exactly as planned:

39 minutes over the deadline at 2400 i slammed it digitally into my desktop: a 15.085 word rough draft of my dissertation.

Have faith - humanity is not lost after all! And pints aren't that bad, it seems.