My tooth hurts because I jammed my computer into it. Don’t ask how. I did. That is all you need to know. The people next to me are studying physics. I am glad I am not them. They are writing down equations that look like vomit on the page.
I am also staring at a giant jar of cheese balls. They are Utz cheese balls. The “Utz” is important, of course.
Today was a good day. It is not over yet.
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Okay, now it is technically tomorrow, even though it is really still today in my mind. It takes our minds longer to grasp time than our bodies. I already feel like it is tomorrow – I am exhausted. But my mind still thinks it is today. Well not really today, because it is no longer Valentine’s Day, but I am still with the same person in the same place, so for all purposes it is the same day, even if it isn’t.
My eyes are glazed and my contacts are sticking because I am so tired. I don’t want to drive home, but I will soon.
I am addicted to Burt’s Bee’s.
All these random thoughts are fluttering through my mind, fast, but also slow. Actually more slow. They are muddled and gray. I don’t really want to take the time to dissect them. I don’t have the capacity now. Instead I just want to dwell in now. I want to just be. I don’t want to think about all the work I have to do. That is not a good thought. It is a horrible thought.
Instead, can I just close my eyes and sleep for a long time? I don’t sleep anymore. Whoever said that sleep is overrated, lied. It is amazing. Sleep is amazing. End of story.
Well I am going to go say goodbye to my friends and make the journey on home. I just might freeze. I am imagining myself as a snowman, and then I am imagining the sun coming out and me melting on the sidewalk into a pile of snowman mush. It is a lovely image. Okay, goodnight.
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