May 2, 2024

I was playing a game in the Half Life engine and a friend said that the game could be beaten without needing to use any of the ladders if you mastered a specific kind of jump. There was a puzzle in the room that involved smashing a giant golden rock. You had to pour liquid silver onto the rock before the gold pieces reformed.

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Mark Zuckerberg had been invited to our class for an interview. But instead of fielding questions from the audience, he asked people to guess something about him. A couple of people asked direct questions anyways and were turned down for doing so. Someone suggested he take a personality test on stage, which was also denied. Finally another person asked a long-winded question about the situation in Gaza and why Zuckerberg was involving himself in the conflict. Instead of deflecting the question like the others he started talking about how people tend to only want to help those who are similar to themselves. So in turn, he concluded, he was willing to help those dissimilar to him because he “[doesn’t] feel.”

I looked out the window and saw some coworkers conversing through freestyle rap. There was a beer garden outside of my middle school library. On each cup was a sticker that indicated whether you could get free refills (gold) or if you had brought in your own drink (silver).

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I was laying in bed in a hotel when my parents said they were heading out. I wanted to join but couldn’t pull myself out of bed. On the bed were three books about mental health titled “Weird Line”, “Sound Mind”, and another containing the word “Stats”.