Moments when you wonder

That would include this morning at 2 am, when I was at work for the 11th hour in a row, for the 9th day in a row, and a colleague happened upon me in the hall.

"I hope you haven't been here for a long time," she said.

"Since 3 pm," I shrugged. "You?"

"Since 8 pm, but not by choice -- we got a document in at that time."

"Yeah. Mine came in at 4:30. Whatever."

She shook her head. She's a year behind me at this job, though she and I are the same college class. "How do you do it, hk?" she asked, with wonder and sadness.

"I need the money!" I replied, loud and clear. "I do it for the money."