Oh Dayum!
I've been up since 1:15pm, Sunday, July 14th. This is dated, so you can do the math, or I'll do it for you, in the next 15 minutes, I will start my 32nd consecutive hour of being awake. I'm not going for a record or anything, but I haven't felt like sleeping, between the caffeine "rush" (aka, my heightened state of alertness having had cold liquid flowing into my body--it just so happened to be Dr Pepper, shocker, isn't it?) and the book I read earlier. It was inspiring. I'm not inspired to try to set a world record for consecutive hours awake (like I said). But it was a good read, and I feel like I was able to take something valuable from it. Furthermore, I'd like to add Matt Groening's (creater of the Simpsons and Futurama) right words.

Matt was in the boy scouts, and wasn't too happy. He got called into the scout master's office and was asked what the most important part of being a boy scout was. He answered reverence. The scout master asked to see Matt's Bible. They were always supposed to bring it, and so he did, but they never actually consulted it. Needless to say, Matt, the future animator that he was, had filled his bible full of doodles. When the scout master discovered this, he asked Matt where he got the bible. Matt claimed he had taken it from a hotel, rather than admit that he had done the doodling. The scout master was very unhappy with this. He told Matt that he had stolen the bible from the Gideons! The scout master proclaimed that Matt Groening was the worst boy scout ever! Matt, taking this to heart for a moment, had a brief epiphany, looked up from the newly brought shame, and said the scout master. Well, somebody's gotta be the worst at something. This is mine. He walked out, and went on to create the greatest animated series of all-time. Says me!