woke before my alarm went off. rode into work, distracted. there’s a test scheduled for today in portuguese but i spend the morning writing two very short stories in the hopes of destroying certain lines of thought. the portuguese test is proctored, not by our regular teacher, but by a Brazilian woman, extraordinarily beautiful. obviously i will never see her again, and would be uncertain what to say if i did.

stupid cheap smoothie for lunch. i swear i live on bannanas.

it’s only as i get up to present a paper during another class that my useless brain descends into reality. i pull it out though, delegate the task of presentation to unconscious regions. mutter buzzwords. apparently i know what i’m talking about without thinking about it, which either means i know much more than most people, or nothing at all.

thunderstorm at night. lightning strikes within a thousand feet of my house. car alarms. rain, rain.