What the hell is midnight oil?
I’ve never understood that expression.. “Burning the midnight oil.” What’s midnight oil? Oil that is only used at midnight? Why do we want to just burn it? I don’t know..
I’m pulling an all-nighter. Oh how I missed these… Except I shouldn’t be doing this. Still, getting a lot done, so it’s worth it, but I think I’m going to crash. If you don’t count sleep and a couple small breaks, I’ve been working about 57 hours straight. I didn’t even notice the weekend. Now it’s Tuesday.. This week’s going to fly by. It’s worth it though.
I don’t know why I wrote this. Trying to keep my eyelids open. Back to work.
January 17th, 2006 at 4:43 am
uh.. apparently it came from :
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/80200.html
January 17th, 2006 at 4:54 am
Oil-burning lamps when cramming for their finals, they didn’t have electricity back in the day.
January 17th, 2006 at 5:05 am
According to an old episode of http://www.drscience.com/, midnight oil is an excretion of the musk gland of the inspiration weasel.
Now you know!
January 17th, 2006 at 5:12 am
The phrase “mid-night oyle” from the poem above is probably an allusion to this (much earlier) parable: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%20:1-13;&version=31;
January 17th, 2006 at 5:19 am
Such inspiration. What are you working on?
January 17th, 2006 at 5:26 am
sb: I’ll blog about it when it’s finally done.
January 17th, 2006 at 6:29 am
Midnight Oil is a good Australian Band :-D http://www.midnightoil.com/
But really its from the olden days -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil
January 17th, 2006 at 7:53 am
It is obviously a reference to the Australian rock band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil
January 19th, 2006 at 10:02 am
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/80200.html
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW138/page2.html
:)