It was the middle of the night and I could feel my bed rocking back and forth. I tried to sleep through it but I started hearing sirens blaring from the streets below. Not long after the fire alarm in my house started ringing as well. There was a weird wavy distortion on all of the alerts. I sat up and looked out at the night view of the city. The earthquake wasn’t stopping. I thought about my parents who were far away on another continent.

I hadn’t packed up in advance so I was still getting my things together on the morning of our departure. I tried to stuff a door along with the coats that were still hanging on the back into my bag without much success. The day was cloudy yet very bright as the light shone through the windows. The house kind of resembled my uncle’s place from childhood.

A friend was humming Seasons of Love and someone asked what the song was. “Don’t you remember?” he replied as he pulled up Google Images on his phone. There were photos us from our elementary school days floating on the web. Everyone was wearing black shirts while hanging from the outer edge of an apartment building. We tapped on one of the thumbnails which brought us to a Reddit post with a video of one of our friends beatboxing in the park.

I was playing Dwarf Fortress and I had split my map into two settlements with the use of burrows. I had decided that the new fortress would be above ground as I started to designate trees to be cut and mushrooms to be planted under a wooden structure.

I was showing of a demo of a generative music AI to some friends in the auditorium. We gave it an input and in return it rendered the same piece but at different skill levels. After playing around with it for a bit, we agreed to meet again next week to dance.

I opened the window and stuck my head out as we flew over a plane crash in a swimming pool. The water was green and teeming with large lizards swimming among the wreckage. A couple of them were rolling around a severed head in the water. I got my phone out to take a picture when a man crawled in through the window to snatch a keyring from my pocket. I pinned him against the frame of the window in an attempt to make him let go of my keys. However moments later even more people starting slipping into the plane through the gaps.

I was set to graduate next week but I still had a research paper that I needed to finish. I didn’t feel good about my prospects of completing it in time and considered e-mailing my advisor about it. I felt a great deal of shame since I had already put it off for many weeks up until this point.

A new My Little Pony episode had a gag that was a recreation of an SFM video that featured the Engineer and Medic from TF2. The were standing in a cluttered workshop with their mediguns pointed at each other while laughing maniacally. It was titled “Red Beam Green Beam”, after the color of their healing beams. I linked the MLP clip to a friend.

We were packing our things in the barracks in preparation for the cold weather outside. The last time I was here was for my military service but this time it was for a school trip. I received some fresh laundry in sealed plastic bags but was told that we wouldn’t be needing those.

I was watching an anime that was set in a desert canyon. It was a world where only respected speakers of truth were witch doctors. The protagonist was on the run from the authorities on his motorbike. He could only travel in darkness and had to ride through night with the headlights off.

I wondered whether I should watch Trigun with the sub or dub.