Let the sun fall into the ocean, let the earth erupt in flame...

Only one day is left
Only one day
We are leaving the others
We're going away.

Today we all steal
animals we are
possession is lost

Our souls are from the wild
and wings to reach the sky
let the sun fall into the ocean,
let the earth erupt in flame
It is enough to have the strength and knowledge
to raise our dream machines into the sky

Let them sleep who do not know
the final day is here
the very last
and we leave at dawn
Laibach - "B Maschina"

Sixteen hours left. I have half a cup of tea, two packets of gummi bears, it's dark and I have a headache.

Let's nail this thing...

Update: 2:12am. Two sections down.
Update: 3:29am. Brain hurts. I must destroy it before the pain can spread.
Update: 4:04am. Brain is resisting attempts to destroy it, by denying the use of vital muscle groups. One more section done.

Update: 1:17pm. Not looking positive. A large body of work published late last month (international conference papers) has re-written some fundamental bits of the background I'm working from, rendering much of what I wrote earlier in the year irrelevant/obsolete. Choices are: submit a "finished" thesis that is already outdated, or re-work thesis in the context of recent ideas - in two weeks. As I can't see any point in submitting something with no scientific merit, I'm trying to update to incorporate the new theories in the field. Will try to get permission to hand in on Monday. Extension or not, this will not be finished this afternoon - there is a little over one full day of rewriting left in it.

Damn scientists, making paradigm-shifting statements in October. Why they couldn't have told me earlier (or held it off until the new year), I'll never understand...