Walter met his first girlfriend after moving to Westcity because of his habit of taking afternoon walks. No matter how hot it got he vowed to take a walk during the afternoon when his brain would be fried anyhow. No point in trying to pull of any deep work during...

He thought he could move in one day. He had always been able to move in one day before. This is not to say that he'd have his entire place unpacked, but everything from the truck would be unloaded into the new space.

This was the first time he couldn't empty...

The new guy never did anything. Well, never anything that helped the team. Instead he would ask questions to busy team members, questions that sounded smart and important upon first listen, but it was only after the conversation was over and you had wasted twenty minutes of your time in...

Once it was not so late, but it felt like night, on a Wednesday during the purgatory between Thanksgiving and  winter break , when the semester was still technically ongoing, but everybody had already begun studying for finals.

I hadn't realized how early the nights came until crossing that bridge. I...

Doug Stamper is one of my favorite characters. Quiet like a shadow, but a presence that's felt by those who know him.

I remember the first time I watched  House of Cards wondering who this quiet bald man with an intense stare was. Why was he always getting himself into these...

My job  freshmen year was at McWhirter Hall. I was a janitor. They paid me 7.93 an hour, there was no negotiation. I applied, they interviewed me, and then they told me that was the pay when would I like to begin.

The job was easy enough. My four hour shift...

My  phone sits down the hall from my bedroom, on top of a short stand that has a cedar wood bowl. In the bedroom is a clock, but it shows no numbers. When I wake I can glance at the wall and know what time it is without having to...

The car was quite old, almost twenty years by this point, but it had only around 85 or so thousand miles on it. Tim would take much pride in how long he'd driven that thing, but I would always remind him that it wasn't so impressive to have a two...

In the summer they kill out of irritation. Not randomly, but the people you hate on the other side of the street, suddenly they rub you the wrong way and you might not let it go like you might in the winter. That  Heat gets to you and you just...

When I was a  sophomore I roomed with a guy who slept only four, five hours a night. If I were to hear of such a guy nowadays, I would think that that's unhealthy and unsustainable. But back in  college , not sleeping was seen as cool. Not because not...