The ephemeral excitement I felt five hours ago has drifted away. My eyelids feel like stone, but succumbing to the fatigue that permeates every corner of my body is not even a remote possibility. The objects around me have melted into one another, and the room steadily becomes a blurry mess, intensified by the harsh fluorescent light that pounds relentlessly against my forehead. Weariness has invaded my brain to the point where I can barely read, let alone compose a sentence to busy the...