Cata’s Reviews > Conversations with Friends > Status Update

Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.

"I wrote a sample message, and then deleted the draft in case I might accidentally hit send. Then I wrote the same thing over again.
I sat staring at my laptop screen until it went black. Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs."