What the broken AC was actually about
The air conditioning is working again. Has been for about twelve hours now. And I keep waiting to feel relieved, but mostly what I feel i...
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The Hartwells
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He read the manual. Once. Briefly.
The AC stopped working sometime between last night’s fireworks and this morning’s sunrise. I know this because I woke up at seven AM swea...
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Jake Morrison
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The table fed everyone
Forty-eight hours ago I was lying on the floor of this apartment with Alex, unable to sort a single archive file because we kept ending u...
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Carmen
Sarah Chen
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Zero files were harmed in the making of this afternoon
Alex came over at noon with the stated intention of helping me organize the next phase of the heritage archive coordination. I made coffe...
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Alex Chen
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The sticky note situation
Jake left before I was awake this morning. He does that sometimes — early shift, out the door before six, barely a sound. I’ve gotten use...
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The Voynich manuscript is not my problem and yet
It started with a perfectly normal book. A real one, borrowed from Margaret last week — she pressed it into my hands at the end of one of...
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Jake Morrison
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The tortilla was not going to make it
Carmen came over this afternoon under the official pretense of helping me go through the next round of archive coordination materials — I...
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Carmen
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Two hours and counting
Called Abuela Rosa at two in the afternoon because I just wanted to hear her voice. That was the whole plan. Check in, catch up, ten minu...
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Sarah Chen
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The window was open
It started because it was hot. Not unbearable — the building situation is mostly resolved now, so I’m not living through the disaster of ...
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One more episode
Three o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, Sarah texted that she was ‘in the neighborhood’ and wanted to drop off something she’d borrowed. Tha...
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Sarah Chen
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