• Peeling Jeltrate off my hands in sculpture class.
  • Watching liquid plastic dry.
  • Hearing a student ask a professor if he smokes weed.
  • The studio art custom of “knolling,” putting away unused tools and tidying your workspace.
  • Yanking one long, white hair out of my eyebrow.
  • The anti-Whitaker protest in downtown Appleton, small but affirming.
    • A shirtless guy wandering through.
    • The news anchor lugging a tripod around, producing her own segment.
  • The flatbed of Christmas trees, on their way.
  • Still buying plastic bags at the grocery store, stupidly, years after the Chicago bag tax was introduced.