Raytracer was due on Monday night, and final SML project was due Tuesday night.
Betwixt the two of them, Ben didn’t get much sleep.
But hey that’s ok. They’re over now. Just three finals and the subdivision project to go. Good deal.
Anyways, the upshot of the occasional sleep deprivation is that everything sorta seems a little less clear and real, and your mind tends to meander a bit. This Eluvium artist that I started listening to a few months ago works well in such states of mind. Drone music somehow seems more substantial; maybe your brain is just taking the abstract material and running with it, in contrast to when you’re fully awake and it just sounds like a buncha noise. Got me.
Last night when I finally finished up the project, I went downstairs and found that I wasn’t thinking in sounds, as I (and I would suspect most other people) usually do. Instead, I was thinking visually, in fixed-width font coding windows. Sometimes it was in the Eclipse IDE, and sometimes in an emacs window. That was different… let me say. You know you’ve been coding too much when…
