Grab a snack because this is gonna be a long one.

I dreamt I lost Jordi in Costco. I texted him, telling him I was in front. As soon as I sent that message, my message was auto-corrected to “I’m going home.”

Then my panicked fingers couldn’t find the letters I needed to communicate where I was or what was happening. My keyboard didn’t make sense anymore. Only emojis were available, and I could not back out of that keyboard, all while I kept getting texts from Jordi demanding to know why I’d gone home.

I remember this much because I immediately explained my dream to Jordi when I woke up. Later that night, we shared a joint with my roomie outside and discussed the brain’s inability to incorporate actual text into dreams. I have recurring dreams about struggling to communicate in writing. Often, the text in my dreams resembles that of the fake text in Animal Crossing:

It’s merely a suggestion of text and it frustrates the hell out of me. However, the roomie is convinced he can form text in his dreams.

How about you?

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Theoretical binge eating.

Yesterday, a hypothetical question circulated at work.

“What is the largest food item you could eat 600 of?”

It wasn’t even me who came up with the question. My answer was among the most conservative:

“Blueberries. Preferably freeze-dried.”

Of course, I questioned the amount chosen. 600? Daniel explained that it was because 600 was a lot of anything. Grains of rice? That’s still a fair amount of rice.

The others were overly confident in their ability to eat massive amounts of:

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From my fingertips.

It’s been two weeks since the accident. The pain has waned my once-soaring spirit. The pain hasn’t improved in proportion to my appearance.

I can become an incognito hillbilly by keeping my lips closed. The feeling of the chasm in my mouth is right on the tip of my tongue and cannot be ignored. It is in my face, literally. When I saw the dentist on Wednesday, he had some bleak news for me.

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