There was a special prompt for those that requested extra time for their final Hum exam and I was one of those people. I tried to view the new questions on my phone but they were obscured by Facebook and Tinder notifications. Everyone around me were holding red sheets of plastic with text printed on them which were supposedly study guides that someone was handing out. I asked someone I knew from high school where everyone was getting these and he simply replied, “No one’s sharing” and walked away.

Someone was singing karaoke and one line of the song went, “One time, I learned how to make really good cheese.” Amazed at their singing ability, someone beside me asked who the girl was. The instrumentals to the song also resembled vaporwave. Apparently the name of the girl singing was “Hajeemer”.

The president of the college was about to hold a final Q&A session for the year. To pass the time before it started, I was sitting in another room watching a documentary. There was a scene of a car driving through a twisted uphill residential area.

It was nighttime and everyone was sitting around a square coffee counter. I looked behind me to find a pencil sharpener with a storefront design on its cover. For some reason I thought it would open to an actual store until I pulled out the shavings drawer and saw nothing but the rotating blades lit up from the inside.

I was standing around a burning log and pulled the stump out of its roots. Apparently something was supposed to happen if it was still burning when I pulled it out but the small flames on it weren’t enough to register. I called for help and someone asked “Why don’t you have a candle with you?” as they took out their own blue candle and lit up the roots.

The four of us were sitting in a room and we each had a large sheet of paper in front of us with an empty timetable. There were symbols at the top of each column and they seemed to be heavily distorted due to scaling them up before being printed out. We were asked how we would spend the summer from week to week. We were to block our time over the 7 day cycle in chunks of 4 rows at a time, each row representing 7 minutes. Someone complained about the empty and unusable space on the time table and I agreed.

I had woken up and it was already 13:20*. I looked at my phone and saw a ton of notifications from Facebook. I jumped into the swimming pool, balancing a pencil horizontally in my right hand. This was my form of surrender. I opened up my daily planner and saw some scribbles most likely induced by sleep deprivation: “SCROUNGE//OMG//SKY” each taking up two lines of space. There seemed to be check marks next to each of them.

There was going to be a “PE exam” at 12 “mach 8″*. We had been driving on a highway that went through the mountains until we reached a rest area that overlooked the ocean. There was still time so I went in the convenience store which turned out to be rather crowded. I remember taking two bags of candy and putting them in my backpack - not with the intention to shoplift but merely so my hands were free to do other things. I walked to the back of the store and found nothing of interest until someone asked me to help them open a bottle of red wine. I agreed but when I looked at the opener, it was more like a short pin rather than a corkscrew. After poking the cork a few times, I found and resorted to a two-pronged opener that was laying on the side. After opening the bottle and handing it back, I wandered around the cashier until I looked at my watch and saw that it was 12:17. I froze for a moment before panicking and heading out.

It was nighttime and I was walking through the higher levels of what seemed to be a large department store. The floor was extremely crowded and people were constantly entering and exiting through the elevators and escalators. I was just wandering through the mass of people as I usually do and looked down at the street from the window. There seemed to be a party going on one of the roofs of a neighboring building. I looked at the distant figures as Daft Punk was playing in the background. When I turned around, I saw a familiar face heading towards the elevator. I ignored them and turned back to head down by the escalator until I changed my mind and decided to join them. While making my way to the elevator, we met and it turned out that she was actually heading to the escalators as well.

I was walking on the grassy slopes next to the road and picked up a red broom. Apparently I had wandered to a spot where people liked to drink together. There was a tour group coming down the road and the guide was talking about RennFayre. Two CSOs were discussing how it was understandable that people identified as the color green.