It was the first day of a new semester and I found out that I will be in the same class as a friend of time for two periods back to back. After finishing our first class of the day, we walked towards our world history class. My friend immediately chose a seat by the door but I decided to walk further into the room for a desk near the front. As we sat down, we were told that we were going to take a test today. Each of us was handed a stack of papers that look like its colors had been inverted (the paper was black, the words white, and the boxes blue and orange).

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.

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.