Nomenclature

[jjemerino]

He sits studiously before a the two screens demanding his attention, wrapping his head around them about about as well as he's been doing so with the knowledge laying within. Lifestyle, he tells himself, is not a definition of who you are. You can do more than your day job, be more than a paygrade. He doesn't need actual laughter to mock the thought. Too much was riding on too much to care about, too fast, too soon. Breathe, the mantra goes, breathe. The screens will still be there when you put the world back together.

He sighs. His eyes open sluggishly, trying to ease back into reality instead of blinding himself with the obvious again. Contemporary deconstructionist hypnobabble and a whole slew of deadlines.

He blinks. And then the keyboard resumes clattering away noisily.