After finishing an iteration of their prototype card game, they offered to give away the custom cards that they had created. They were intending to reprint the same cards with proper materials for the beta test. I told them how one of the cards had a poor quality print but when they asked me to show them which one, I could no longer find it.

We were throwing a party for our graduation and people were in the gym playing games. They were laying down spot markers of varying sizes while one of them was reciting the game rules. There seemed to be some attempt to lay the markers into a grid. Apparently we were on the blue team because the other grouped claimed to be red.

I felt like a different person every time I went to draw in the cafe at the top of the hill. I didn’t know how to explain what I was feeling so I hid this fact from my parents. I told everyone that I worked part-time at the cafe when really I was going there to draw. I felt so different that I was sure even my appearance changed whenever I was in that space.

Summer had just begun and I was enrolled in an accelerated Chinese language class. The class also doubled as a course in social interactions with a focus on romantic relationships and dating. I wasn’t sure how I ended up in this class that was supposedly set to meet every day of the week. When I asked the instructor how many weeks the class went on for, she said “as many as necessary”. I explained that I would have to miss the entirety of next week due to a conference I really want to go to.

We were about to play a tabletop game and it was time for us to choose a character model. I walked around the room full of boxes of different models, sorted by color. I continued walking in circles around the U-shaped table until I felt like my indecision was delaying everyone else. I eventually settled for a white plastic tree before sitting down.

I woke up as a child and I wanted to find some place quiet. I ran along the beach until I found myself at the door of a concrete building. I started walking up the stairs and it took a few floors before I realized that the building actually housed a few offices. It didn’t seem like I was going to find the peace and quiet I was looking for here.

I had just finished my junior year and I was picking out classes for the next semester.

I asked him what he was doing with the garden hose before he turned around and started watering the grass next to the pavement.

I was watching an anime with a group of friends and was questioning one of them why in the world they would prefer the dub for a series filled with Japanese pop culture references. He wouldn’t give me a straight answer.

Out plane had just landed and we were walking to my grandfather’s place in the snow. Even though it was late at night, it was still light out because we were in the arctic. I stopped before crossing the bridge because I wanted to take a photo of it covered in fresh snow.