Midnight Insomnia & Words With Friends (Losing With Style)

3:00 AM

It’s midnight. You’re probably asleep.

I’m not.

Assignments: many. Brain: buffering.

So I opened Words With Friends because clearly I’m a responsible adult who replaces sleep with vowels.

At first glance? Easy.

I saw myself dominating the board like a relaxed dictionary in lip gloss.

Then the board looked back and said: no.

The delulu phase (a timeline)

00:07 Confidence.

“Pfft, I’ll beat my friend fast.”

(Narrator: she would not.)

00:19 Eureka!

I found a word. It felt clever. I celebrated in lowercase and hubris.

00:20 Rejection.

And now i'm screwed..

It didn't worksssssss :"""""""""""""

App: That’s not a valid word.

Me: Then invent it, coward.

00:27 Saberly??

What even is saberly. Adverb of saber? As in “He swung saberly, Your Honor”?

My brain: beam saber go bzzzt.

The app: no thoughts, just tiles.

00:33 My opponent’s evil laugh (imagined).

He probably placed a 5-letter on a triple word like it was nothing.

I did the only logical thing: opened this blog editor.

Things keeping me awake (besides the score)

Assignments with due dates that multiply when I blink.
The burning question: does QI still count or did they nerf it.
The knowledge that I could have been sleeping, and instead I learned ZA is legal while my feelings are not.

If you’re also up at midnight

Place your S carefully; it’s the one-letter sugar daddy.
Guard the triple word squares like your last brain cell.
Screenshot the board, walk away, drink water, come back with a less feral perspective.
Or do what I did: write a post so future-you can laugh at past-you (and still lose).

Status update

I am still awake. The board is still rude.
My friend is probably snoring victoriously.
Me? Practicing resilience and inventing adverbs: I will sleep saberly.

What are you doing at midnight?

(Wrong answers welcome.)
Ikkel

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