It was already 5PM and I haven’t slept in a while. I needed to finish my homework and also needed to eat. The projector was missing from the common room. It turns out that people were playing Smash outside on the field. Someone took out a selection of board games from a box. One of the games was named Revenge. It was a strategy game with with base-building and ships. I agreed to play a quick game and suddenly a lot of people came into the room. Everyone wanted to play so we pulled up more chairs.

I was playing EU4 as the nation of Kosovo and had conquered a large territory in Russia in the shape of a V. Japan had declared war on me over a small piece of land on the eastern front. I had my armies camped out at the choke points on the mountainous regions around my provinces. Their army had nothing against my stacks of 700k troops on the defense.

Many of the classrooms on campus were holding review sessions but most of the rooms were also empty. Some of the larger classrooms had something playing on the projector as well as a table full of snack foods. Someone told me to get the marshmallow pie so I did.

A friend was giving a talk titled: “What happens when we talk about Earth… on Earth?” He presented various infographics on varying worldviews throughout the regions of the world while concluding that the way we think about our planet is inherently biased due to our limited knowledge about living on other worlds. He also showed how the dominant worldviews change over the course of the day as certain people wake up and go to sleep. He asked if I wanted a handout of the slides to which I said yes before he told me that other people wanted them as well. “Oh, that’s fine then” I said, offering the presentation materials to whoever else wanted them.

A small child wore a pair of pink sunglasses while looking at a dog going upwards from the bottom of the escalator. We continued to look at the child standing in the middle of the mall, the child who aspired to be more like the dog. In a fit of frustration, the kid tried to get on all fours but whenever he did so his sunglasses would fall off and he had to stand up to readjust them. The dog continued to look at the child through its own pair of sunglasses.

We were playing a board game and I was physically obstructing the opposition’s game-piece from advancing to the other side of the board. As the game had gone on for a certain number of turns, they now had an alternate win condition of killing any one of the seven demons. “Oh yeah, I forgot we’re on the same team”, I said as I looked up at the other people around the table.

I woke up in the Math Lab and someone was asking me why I had a hotel key on the desk. I told them that I was planning on returning it but needed it for my Japanese class. “Who can use the library?” they continued to ask.

We were watching a dance routine and was laughing at the fact that none of the clapping was audible. Someone told me that they had taught my brother the lyrics.

It was a Tuesday of the new semester and I was still having trouble trying to figure out my class schedule. There were overlapping time blocks and subsections of classes all written down on the note card that I usually make for myself at the beginning of the semester. A friend informed me that over the past two days, he had only gone to one class. I panicked at the possibility that I had also missed class.

We were in a hotel room and my father was watching SFM YouTube videos on the television. I announced that I was going to head to the shower but by the time I had gotten my clothes, we had switched to some kind of anime that heavy utilized 3D CGI. I decided to sit and watch until we got to the halfway mark.