August 28, 2018

After the match was over and people in the seats started to get up, a friend suggested that we go get lunch somewhere that would avoid the crowd. “Lunch?” I asked. It was already evening. “I mean, to make up for not having lunch”, he clarified. Which made sense as I remembered that we skipped lunch in favor of watching the games.

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I hadn’t really checked what time my flight was today because I had assumed I would be able to take the express shuttle to the airport which was advertised to get the airport in 20 minutes. It wasn’t until I had arrived at the platform that I realized that shuttle access was restricted. I quickly took out my phone to see how long an Uber to DGA would take: around 135 minutes. After realizing that my flight was in approximately three hours, I started to feel a lot more tense. I noticed that I had haphazardly packed my luggage and carry-on. Namely, I had quite a few bottles of liquids in my backpack and my suitcase was in a hard-to-rearrange state. As I looked down, I noticed I wasn’t even dressed properly.

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I was scrolling through a new dating app that took advantage of background checks and sociometrics to display information about users and make matches. It featured an optional “happy mode” that only matched those that the algorithm had determined were “happy” together.