I caught glimpses of someone watching the English dub of The Tatami Galaxy out of the corner of my eye. Meanwhile, we were playing a platform fighting game while sitting under the sheet metal roof. Someone dismissively called it “black and red Smash”

I was in a hotel room watching a Trigger short that was about giant autonomous airships transiting across the land and the unwitting generations of passengers living aboard. The landscape and the designs on the airships gave off a Breath of the Wild vibe with the Sheikah-like decals on the exteriors.

I was playing an evolution simulator game and I was stuck inside of a whale. I had to wade through furniture and other forgotten things while managing my air supply.

I sat in an a class premised on preparing for the SAT through playing Path of Exile. The desks felt a little too short. I looked around at all of the other students when I realized that I was way too old to be here. Apparently the class was for people who had somehow gotten admitted without ever having taken the test. Barely any PoE was played before the class was dismissed. I walked up to the professor to tell them that there was a mistake and that I wasn’t supposed to be here; I was already a senior. I told them that I planned to switch the course for another when they asked if I was sure that wouldn’t be too much. I supposed that I could just take one fewer course for my final year. My linguistics professor popped in to say hi. I didn’t know how to respond beyond saying hello back.

I was in class and we were counting off to determine which project each of us had to do from a prepared list of prompts. Mine was number 14 which was to create some sort of strategy game based on ancient Egypt. I felt that it sounded easy enough.

I was in the dorm kitchen when I received messages from friends about how a family friend was back in town. I opened the fridge to see that it was filled with cartons of milk. I grabbed some left over spaghetti and pizza for a quick dinner. I saw that she was preparing something on the floor instead of using the counter. Someone accused her of trying to food poison the whole dorm.

We were supposed to meet at the restaurant downtown but I had once again arrived way too early and decided to wander about the nearby streets. I bumped into the friends I was going to meet later but they had caught me walking in the opposite direction. “Where are you going?” they asked.

“Uh… nowhere?”

“Are you also coming for dinner?”

“Yeah eventually.” I said as I swiveled around to follow them to the restaurant. We were expecting a pretty large group so we decided to start ordering as we waited outside. Someone asked if it was okay to order the fish.

I couldn’t believe that I had won the lottery for 140 million dollars. I thought about how much I would have left over after giving each of my friends 1 million.

I was on campus but I somehow couldn’t find any of the classrooms. I sat down at a folding table in the hallway and sent my dad some photos from the day before. It was freshman orientation and I had taken a picture of the cherry blossoms atop a hill blowing in the wind. My dad sent a text saying that he wanted to learn directing and I encouraged him to keep working at his projects. I thought about what it would be like to crawl in the wet rice fields.

I was trying to play a platformer on a dumbphone but was having trouble with the controls on the small keypad.