I walked up to a friend who was sitting at a hotdog stand by the rice paddies late at night. Since he had been looking for housing recently, I asked him how the search was going when I really just wanted to talk about video games. He mentioned something about construction going on in a nearby neighborhood so I decided to check it out.

I was standing in line for a printing service that specialized in making parts for board games. While I was in line, I was cutting a string of paper penguins with specially shaped scissors. After a while, we were told to split into two lines to speed up processing everyone’s orders. I finally got to the front of the line when the person asked me why I was here again - I had already placed an order less than hour ago. “That one was a test. This one is also a prototype”, I said as I held up the paper with my hands.

I had finished my drink on the outside patio and walked into the cafe with the check. I left it on the counter with the intention of paying on my way out before walking up the stairs to see my brother and niece. However by the time I walked back down, someone had already moved the check so I had to try and recall how much I had to pay. “Where are you from?” one of the waitresses asked. “Portland”, I said without much thought before correcting myself and saying that I recently moved to California.

We were talking about a trailer for a new Star Wars movie that got announced. The upcoming film was a mishmash of cliches with word for word lines out of 90s horror films.

We were trekking through the snow when a group of people captured my brother and cousin under the charge of disrupting research. They told me that I could pick them up at their headquarters. My brother and I were supposed to fly back today. I only had a few hours to get him if I wanted to make out flight but at the same time I felt like I was supposed to wait before I went to fetch him.

Our class was out on a field trip and we had gotten off the bus for lunch. I was nearly done with my meal when a girl sat down across the table from me. “There’s something that needs to be said between us”, she said.

Someone invited me to play Fortnite with them but I couldn’t be bothered to get in installed. I rode around the city on my rental bike, unsure about where I should go. At some point in time, I was even carrying the bike up the stairs of an apartment building.