TPA 87

I suppose I should wish myself a merry Christmas. I had a nightmare last night. It must have been a powerful one if it stuck with me. I'm not writing much today because I want to focus on Cain today. I was in college and the due date for three projects was coming up by the end of the week. Seven days. That's all I had to work on a project that I hadn't studied. I could barely remember reading the material for the class but it was filled with notes which means I must have been paying attention. That didn't help me, the project required me to study the physics of a car but I didn't have enough time to rent the car and test it out, which meant I was doomed. If I couldn't get access to the project's main objective, I couldn't do the work. And there were two other final projects I had to take which left me out in the cold. I remember I was planning to call the teacher and ask to be taken out of the class in hopes that it would prevent my bad grade. I have a lot of dreams like this where I'm ill-prepared for a class. I haven't seen a classroom in years but the feeling of being behind still antagonizes me.

Anyway, I've bought plenty of games this month so I'll be busy with books and games. So despite the bad opening to the day, merry xmas to me.

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