day 2: cold KD tastes better

Shower? no
Glasses/Contacts? contacts
Music: Beck (Sea Change)

1:00pm Ablutions, reheat coffee.
2:00pm Suffer digestive malady, get distracted skimming Peter Carey Wrong About Japan (not useful to thesis).
3:00pm Reheat coffee, work ('Flood'&'Nature'; paper). Pause to Google swimming, channel-swimming, knee injuries. Eat 1 ginger molasses cookie.
6:30pm Dinner: Kraft Dinner. Watch ten minutes of Food Network sugar/ice sculpting competition.
8:00pm Work (NC; computer). Re-Google knee injury forgotten since dinner. Switch to sports bra. Spend half-hour trying to re-title story.
2:00am Eat cold Kraft Dinner
2:15am ablutions, sleep

Notes:
My thesis is a collection of 8 short stories (referred to by initials) which are at the third-draft editing stage, although some require more work than others. Obviously, I'd prioritized my time then this 2-week marathon wouldn't be necessary, but that's neither here nor there.

Marathon-writing is an exercise in subsistence. It's only mental fires burning, after all. Food makes you logy. Music can be played if it's on low or usefully evocative for the story. Any other sound (ie crinkling paper, people chewing, even breathing, sometimes) is an unbearable distraction. It takes a lot of concentration to keep the wheels a-turning. Caffeine is great, but I'm not allowing myself to brew any coffee this time; I was up to a carafe a day last marathon and ended up with heart palpitations. And my dad told me (after the palpitations, mind) that was exactly how he'd gotten his ulcer, while working on his thesis.