April 13, 2025

We went into the climate controlled shed in our yard where my mother’s old oil paintings were stored. However what she had really brought me here for was to show me some of the work from her students. There were several essays which provided critiques on memes and their function as signifiers for belonging. Despite having access to said essays “locally” (we were holding hard copies in our hands), we discovered that they were actually being hosted on third party (Intel) cloud services.

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I was at a culture festival and there was a group of people playing Red Light Green Light. It was eventually won by a person who had three legs and was able to vault across large distances with every step. I left the venue early halfway through a talent show and it was raining hard outside. I had to keep reminding myself that I didn’t bring my backpack along with me today and to not freak out over its absence.

I was watching an old YouTube video of two girls asking each other questions while walking through a mall. They would give each other nonsense answers, making use of consonance and rhyme for English-sounding clusters. I thought about how the now 16 year old video was filmed when they were just about to enter college and wonder how their lives must be like now.