They called the company a target, which is not how I usually look at one
Hannah
Monday night, and I go back through the Bank of America virtual internship I finish on The Forage, because the slides still sit in a folder named as if they…
August 2026
The cheaper copy came with answers I did not ask for
Friday night, and I finally buy the anthology I have been borrowing from the library in pieces. The shop have a new one with a stiff spine, and a used…
The holiday in the textbook is not the choice I actually have
The Business book use a holiday again. Two weeks at the beach, or a new laptop, and you cannot have both, which is how they introduce opportunity cost. I copy…
The drawing I did tonight is worth nothing, which is not the same as worthless
Saturday night, and I am supposed to finish a Business worksheet on costs. Instead I open the sketchbook that live under my Maths folder, which is a bad filing system…
The graph in the homework has no labels, so it is not a graph yet
Tuesday evening, the first full week of proper IGCSE, and I spend twenty minutes staring at a line that go up and then flatten. No numbers on the side. No…
The family in the play cannot afford to keep the trees
Sunday night, and I finally open The Cherry Orchard. It is on the World Literature list I stare at two days ago and do not close. Chekhov. A house, a…
I play the same song too many times
Tonight I am supposed to finish a page of Maths, but Clair de Lune is playing in my room for so long that I stop counting. I know the piece…
These four subjects keep interrupting each other
School start properly next week. Or this week. It depend who you ask, and whether you count the afternoon they hand out the reading lists as “starting.” I have four…
The Nightingale and the Rose is a story about price
I read Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose on Thursday night, which was a mistake only because I then couldn’t fall asleep. It’s on the IGCSE World Literature list…