I forgot to mention, yes, I am up and LJ-ing at 4am. I just can't seem to get my sleepcycle right. Oh well. These are productive hours.
I just heard the first birdsong from outside. It's that one annoying bird that I think lives in the birch tree. Its song is a five-note pattern repeated endlessly.
I'm reminded of what
whelk_of_doom told us about when he and some others had to pull an all-nighter for their Engineering class: "I hate the sound of birds singing. You know why? Because when you hear birds singing, you know you've reached your last resort, an all-nighter, and it has FAILED. You are still out of time, and now you're all tired on top of everything else."