“Consume Me got me to stop save-scumming and delete perfectionism”

“Consume Me got me to stop save-scumming and delete perfectionism”

If I could, I would restart every day to do it better

It’s nearing one in the morning, and I’ve consumed somewhere in the ballpark of three coffees and two energy drinks so I have the time and energy to study for my upcoming calc and bio exams, do my lit reading, exercise at least twice, sell some outfits I never wear to make a quick buck, and maybe, if I have a couple spare seconds, take a bath to recharge my energy and improve my mood. I over-ate today, but I needed to fill up my guts, so I’ll write it off as a cheat day, which means I can now eat whatever I want. Down the hatch the chips go. Hey, I need it to get rid of my munchies debuff so I can get back to studying.

“Romance: the final boss”

“Romance: the final boss”

In this world and our gamer world, we would have always broken up.

I expected the breakup; I also expected to marry him. But you can only go down one route, and he chose ours. We lived together and just celebrated our two-year anniversary. I still loved him.

He said he still loved me, too. He also said he’d be moving out in a week.

“Display of Pain”

“Display of Pain”

One month before my college closed for Covid, a friend and I went to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. They had taken advantage of the free admission our student IDs gave us many a time and were intimately familiar with the museum’s layout. So when we came to the Hyman Bloom exhibit, they knew what was coming. “This gallery freaks me out,” they told me with a literal shiver. “It feels like it’s haunted.”

I couldn’t disagree, but that was part of why I loved it.

“From Office Cubicle to Janitorial Service”

“From Office Cubicle to Janitorial Service”

My Summer in Space

For five days a week, between noon and five, I found myself in a hypnogogic state. I took the folder out of the box. Removed the papers within it. Removed the staples, paperclips, and fasteners holding everything together. Ran the pages through the scanner. Saved the file in a folder within a folder within a folder on a server.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.