The occasional outsider who pulls in off the highway for a midnight meal may feel as though he should have brought a partner and a few notebooks to spread out on the table. There students stay, sometimes until people who actually eat pancakes for breakfast start arriving. As we stumble out, blurry eyed and exhausted, headed home for our two or three hours of sleep, we swear that we won't let this happen again. Next time we'll keep up with the reading. Next time we'll start earlier.
Next time has yet to come.