Vicarious, Wakeful

I'm sitting around at 3 am figuring out why it is that I am elated for the sake of some student I haven't really come to know very well. This student posts that the Extended Essay, all 4000 words of it, which has been festering like some radiant pustule for a very long time, is done. It is 'ready to ship', as they say.

I realise that this is a good thing. And although I am not quite experiencing the same thing, I am happy for that student. I can only hope that on the day my own dissertation is done, all 120000 words of it, which has been festering like some radioactive boil for a very long time, that people are equally happy for me.

OK, back to work.