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42 lines
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title: 2020-12-20
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I was sitting at the last row in a classroom of the elementary school I went to.
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The row was made of three groups of two tables, and I was in the central group,
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on the left table, next to who used to be my best friend when I was in
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preschool. We were in the middle of a music class, and I was studying the way I
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have been studying after graduating from high school: barely any note-taking,
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just listening to the class. My friend grabbed my notebook and forced me to
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take notes.
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There were graded questions that I was copying down, but I did not realize they
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were questions and that I was supposed to answer them. The last question was
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graded 4 points out of 20 and we had very little time to answer before the end
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of the class.
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I only realized I was taking a test when it was time to give our answer sheets
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back. I tried to grab a double sheet of paper (an A3 sheet folded in half, the
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most common sheet used for tests in high school) and draw the usual template on
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it: name in the margin, subject centered on the first line, and two red lines
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spanning the whole sheet and separated by 4 lines for the teacher to leave a
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mark and comments. I messed up the lines a bit, drawing them using an orange
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pen instead of read, and that made me think I messed up the entire sheet.
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An oven just like the one I currently own was below the blackboard, on the left,
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and its clock was different than my IRL oven: the screen had thicker, orange
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segments (when my oven has green segments). The time it was displaying was
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quickly changing, which I explained in my mind by the AC frequency being too
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low. This oven was apparently syncing its clock with other ovens online,
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causing its clock to change between values like -27:-27, 13:12 or 13:56.
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One of the students was not in class today but was present remotely, maybe from
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an airport. He was trying to answer the questions using some expensive piece of
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music writing software that not all students had access to. Another student,
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maybe a classmate of mine from elementary school, told the teacher and they
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suggested that "the plushie" pays for the software for everyone else.
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The plushie was a smolhaj (nickname of a discontinued 60 centimeters-long
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version of the IKEA Blåhaj) who was apparently given to all the students by the
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school.
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