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Daily Happenings by Isa Rhein
Every day I wake up to my mom turning on a UV light. I groan and step out of bed, promptly shuffling punk or ’80s rhythms. It helps with achieving a motivation to move. Fast forward to walking downstairs, my plate has two blueberry Eggos and a handful of multivitamins and anti-depressants-nausea-anxiety pills. I’m convinced that breakfast is necessary just so that I can swallow the entire medicine cabinet with a glass of water. But the toasted waffles look solemn in the car rides to 8:30 a.m. classes. They share my discomfort with the trajectory of the vehicle.
Most of the time the blue-spotted carbs are forgotten in my pocket. Never mind that, I’m walking dead from class to class with a plastered smile on my face. At 12:30 p.m. I arrive every day with an Uber home. Food fills my mind before my stomach. Lunch is a real meal for me. Of course, I need a full stomach for the next 6 hours of being alone and staring at a computer screen or a daydream.
No shock my room is reorganized at least twice a week with the mix of OCD and loneliness saturating my tremor. The parents walk up and board up in their room. Dinner is a half sandwich on my bed while drawing people flying high above. Another round of medication concludes with bedtime. I find myself staring at the ceiling with no sheep to count until 3 a.m. Round and round like a rotary the cycle repeats. I’m dizzy from the ordinary illusions. I close my eyes, and suddenly I see a bright light once again.
