It was only until the second Tuesday of summer classes that I realized I had missed the first classes of the courses that I had wanted to take. Even though I had my entire schedule planned and written down, I had managed to forget about the classes I was most looking forward to. I thought about calling to notify that I would only be auditing this summer in an attempt to alleviate the problem and retake the course during the semester but I was told that it wouldn’t be possible as I had already paid for tuition.

I was sitting in a circle in a classroom with a group of classmates. When we got up to leave, I had the feeling that I wasn’t going to be seeing them again, even though it felt like I didn’t even get to know any of them. We watched a person run around a rooftop stairway through a window and wondered how they moved so fast. At one point their jacket changed into a light blue.

I was waiting outside of a storefront in a dimly lit alley. Someone came by and I told them that I didn’t live here when they asked. Dawn was just breaking when I saw my dad so I asked him if he was having a long night or simply woke up early. It turned out to be a long night as he had just gotten back from Stockholm. He commented on how “Americans don’t like to work”.

I was walking behind everyone else when someone attempted to shoot at me from behind. “I thought I was supposed to be invisible!” I exclaimed as I jumped to the side. I stopped by the side of the dirt road in the garden under the moonlight. I tried to listen for footsteps of anyone following but failed to do so.

I was setting my alarm to go off at 4:44 AM and every other minute afterwards while some friends were discussing which Olympic event they wanted to go to next. One person was talking about how South Africa had recently bought a bunch of land from its neighbors and now had the longest coastline in the entire world.

We were taking a break from constructing a robotic hand by going to the convenience store. I wandered along the aisles without much intention of buying anything. Someone asked me if the “Blue Burrito” was actually blue. I told him that it wasn’t and that it didn’t even have blue cheese in it. He looked disappointed. I lined up for the cashier behind him empty-handed while I saw that he grabbed some blue cheese for himself.

It was around 11PM and I was on a bus to the airport. I was going to a trip to Japan with some classmates and sat on a window seat on the left side. I took out my “travel folder” from my backpack to check my flight information once again and found that the flight departs at 2:30. I messaged this information to my mom and she replied minutes later simply with “The buck is being seen”. I also picked out an old train ticket and disposed of it in the seat pocket in front of me.

I was watching a Twitch stream as the sun rose. I was extremely exhausted and fell asleep right at my desk. My dad knocked on the door and I could fuzzily hear him panicking in the background after he opened the door. “What happened?” he asked. He kept called my name while I passed out.

I was sitting inside of a bar on the second floor overlooking a street. I was waiting for someone while listening to the music that was playing. It was daytime and the interior was mostly black.

It was the night of December 25th and I was lying down in the yard. I complained about how time was passing too quickly and that in a mere 5 days it would be the new year.