Now I'm eating an entire thing of chocolate-covered almonds. This container was supposed to last more than 5 minutes.

I was unclear: I was a high school student at Uni and used the typewriter in the Uni library (c. 1999).

I actually used a typewriter in the Uni library for some application in the late 90s. I have no idea what kind of typewriter it was, nor what the application was. No way it was this one, right?

You have certainly earned a rest, and I hope you get it!

I've only promised a chapter by the end of the year (down from an initial goal of a draft of the whole darn thing; I had to keep revising what was feasible, and finally settled on a chapter), but this is still enough to induce anxiety dreams!

High Noon (with Gary Cooper)? What about Captain America?