February 27, 2024

I was the second to last week of the semester and I was walking through campus with a friend. He slipped into the gym where I quickly lost track of him. I wandered through the pop-up market when I bumped into another old friend. He told me how he managed to finish his degree early and was graduating this semester. I asked if he had front-loaded all of his courses or simply took full course loads for his final semesters. I told him about I’d thought about doing the same but it just never happened.

I walked through the make-up and cosmetics area and into the bed and furniture aisles. I decided to make a turn that went up a hill until I got to the sports field. It was getting dark now, but I could see people rehearsing their end of the year performances under the spotlights. “Oh right, that’s happening later”, I thought to myself. I turned away from the chain link fence only to find that I had missed a “Do Not Enter” sign earlier on my way up.