Our task was to find a reliable way to figure out the length of “perceived time” while watching a video of two people talking outside of a cafe. We were to somehow see if political affiliation would affect how much time someone thought had passed during the 5 minute clip.

There were about three or four drunk people in the living room while I was simultaneously massaging my clenched jaws and writing code. I was on a cushion with some kind of computer program that narrated my current surroundings a text-based adventure game. “What the fuck is this?” someone asked, pointing at my screen. “What’s what?” I replied. I wasn’t quite sure what the issue was, after all it wasn’t really any of their business. “‘What was once a drink?’ who talks like that?” was their attempt at clarification. I still wasn’t sure what they were blabbering about for I knew for a fact that string of words never appears in my code. I showed them the raw code and attempted to tell them that this is everything that could ever surface when running the program and more, but they seemed to refuse to listen.