It was Monday and along with cookies, various other snacks were being offered at the coffee shop. Apparently they needed to get rid of some of the food that had been in storage for a while. I picked up a sandwich on my way out. It was potentially a few months old.

I felt a rush of adrenaline as I realized that I wasn’t going to pack up my belongings in time before I had to leave the country. I had only finished a couple of boxes and my room was nowhere near being emptied out. I walked around to the other side of the room so see some half-erased equations on the whiteboard.