I AM A SUN LOUNGE

Diary of a Professional Overthinker – Entry 5.   Have you ever asked a question to be polite and regretted it instantly?  I have. Multiple times. In fact, it happens so frequently that I’ve begun to suspect I possess a rare and largely useless superpower....

EMERGENCY FISH

Diary of a Professional Overthinker — Entry 4.   You start to realise your family’s idea of priorities are skewed when an aunt returns from Germany with very little to say about the sights, and an alarming amount to say about strudel. My family’s atypical...

THE ACCIDENTAL PHILOSOPHER

Diary of a Professional Overthinker – Entry 3.   My grandparents named my father after the great thinker and philosopher Plato, which proves they had no ability to preempt personality. Perhaps a more suitable persona was provided when his peers nicknamed...

HAIL TO THOSE WHO FORGET NAMES WITH DIGNITY

Diary of a Professional Overthinker – Entry 2.   When I forget names, my brain doesn’t come up with *syntax error* accompanied by a bleep, like most peoples. Instead, it installs a system patch.  It’s not such an issue when I can easily differentiate...

NEVER ASK ME ABOUT SPEED DATING

Diary of a Professional Overthinker – Entry 1.   I glanced down at the messy bundle of paper strips he revealed from a pencil case that must have been at least twenty years old (definitely a high school relic) and waited for his shaky hand to extract one....