Three Ton Coworker - Frank, you need to look up, there, above your head.
The room smelled of mold, and the covers didn't hide me quite as thoroughly as I had hoped, but I crawled into and curled up in my nest nightly anyway.
Every morning was the same: too early and no hope of shutting it out, so I would just lie there and sniff at the mold. Eventually, the need to pee would get me out of bed. The thought of coffee kept me from going back.
I drank three coffees today and still took a nap.
I think there was going to be a description here of the mornings and the afternoons, and the evenings which all bled into each other, and how the color of the blood was beige, and how it smelled, but something about the three coffees and the nap distracted me from that description, or perhaps just showed me that it was unnecessary, that it would have been unnecessary.
Last night, I went for a walk in the dark. I walked through three tunnels. They were actually too short to be called tunnels. The insides of these "tunnels" were very colorful. I almost wrote that they were "festooned with color." Most everything else was a dark-greenish gray.
The room smelled of mold, and every night when I shut the door, I shut the window because it was also cold, and I waited quite a while before turning on the heat, and even then it hardly mattered. And I worried the heat would intensify the smell.
Every day, I woke up and was still myself.
The previous sentence is trying really hard to be one of those profound banalities. It is failing.
Every day I wake up and there's a brief moment of something before my mind spirals off with itself.
Closing the door required lifting up slightly and sliding a corner of the door against the frame. It made that dull squeaking or sliding noise that wood makes against wood, like scooting your chair away from the table.
The room was too small to be called a tunnel and only had one door anyway, and it was too bright to be called a cave, but it had a nest of blankets I could warm up, and it smelled of mold, which it has always done.