The update:
As of this moment I have 50,138 words. That’s 284 double-spaced manuscript pages.

Morale:
Dazed. Happy. Relieved. Dazed. Looking forward to editing, but also ready for a break.

The very last thing I wrote before declaring the first draft finished (it’s not the last sentence of the book, though - that makes even less sense out of context):

I’m drawn back to the sculpture of Romulus and Remus, the two boys. Two boys frozen in a moment, uncertainly safe in the company of a wolf.

I resist the urge to lift it from its base and smash it into another statue, into any one of the witnessing images of gods alien to me.

They are not my boys, these two young empire builders. My boys are gone.

Statistics:
NaNoWriMo (NonNaNoWriMo)

Bottles of whiskey consumed:
1 (.5)

Approximate number of coffee beans eaten like popcorn:
200 (0)

Hours of sleep:
180 (225)

Hours spent cleaning:
2 (6)

Hours of telephone conversation:
3 (9)

Hours of general in-person socializin’:
35 (65)

Hours of CD player use:
110 (40)

Hours of television watched:
15 (25)

Number of movies seen:
2 (8)

Number of articles read (that's as in essays and such, not as in "the", which, as I've mentioned, is a much higher number):
20 (30)

Number of books read:
0 (5)

Number of books written:
1 (0)