Log of a troubled night

I was flipping through one of my old moleskines and found a piece of writing I had previously promised to post. I post it now, almost a year after I made my promise. Oh, folly!

A bit of background: Steve, Barbara and Myself were staying up all night to write papers for our respective classes. They both had theology papers to write and mine was an analysis of "A Nocturnall upon St. Lucies Day" in the context of alchemical transformation.

State of Mind at 11:39 PM
Duke: high energy. lots of hope. high morale
Steve: no thesis. mid-energy (drinking). alive
Barbara: void. 2&3/4 pages on paper. sugar levels high

11:45 - Barbara confesses seeing a word castle with a moat and clothes on it
12:03 - Enter Ben Wiebracht
12:05 - Sacrifice discussed
12:20 - Duke and Steve say yes at the same time
12:30 - Duke: "Christology sucks"
12:35 - Duke: "How cool is alchemy?"
Steve: "Alchemy sucks."
12:40 - Steve: "Is there a way in which Catholics could have sacraments wrong?"
Barbara: "I thought you said, 'Is there a way in which Catholics could have sex wrong?'!"
Duke: "Catholics DO have sex wrong!"
12:45 - enter Marjorie and Spencer
Steve: "Christology to the face!"
Ben: "Basketball sucks!"
Spencer: "You need to get that thesis going."
12:50 - exit Steve's shoes
1:05 - Ben: "This is very potent" (regarding Starbucks coffee shots)
1:15 - Barbara: "Isn't it beautiful?" (Rachmaninoff plays in the background)
Duke: "Yeah. I need some Ranch man in of."
1:49 - enter Steve's thesis
1:51 - Marjorie leaves "to urinate."
2:05 - Eight Count Shakedown with Steve and Duke
2:15 - Casa Bonita
2:24 - Ben: "Why don't they have grammar bee's?"
2:33 - Steve: "My paper is ignorant"
also, Steve uses his face muscles to free himself from Barbara's grasp
2:37 - Ben: "Steve Slagg is a man of few words."
Duke: *snort*
2:41 - enter Sam Phillips and Jesus--Jesus wearing a vest of violet sequins
3:05 - enter/exit Alyssa Keysor
3:14 - Ben naps briefly; re-enter Alyssa
3:16 - Ben - (commenting on Sam Phillips' song "All Night" with her rockin' guitar) "She's singing about Steve's thesis!" (Lyrics go: "All night/All night/I've been looking for you all night")
3:27 - Duke shall marry George Eliot. And love her. So says the espresso tab.
3:29 - Listen [Editor's note: This is presumed to be Barbara speaking, but at this point caffeine and lack of sleep seem to have gotten to the chronicler's head]: "My mother was a chinese trapeze artist."
Duke: "What was your daddy?"
3:44 - Duke packs up
Duke: "I am very gnostic."
exit Duke