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It was not wider than ten feet. Her room was strewn with clothing, coins, open makeup containers including eyeliner pens, orange sticky notes used and unused, coffee grinds, old 3DS cartridges, abandoned books, and sneezed in crumbled tissue/napkins dumped from her purse or backpack onto the floor.

One faulty light bulb was on, giving a dim orange hue to the windowless brick walls that she had tried paint many times, each attempt left as a fuming failure.

Her phone was present after a long days work, giving the professionally dressed women a color changing halo.

She was doing what she would call “nothing” but she was still sitting on the edge of her bed with tense muscles. She was out of breath from living her whole day, but had drunk too much coffee to sleep, so she was alone and stuck in a restless nightmare between two dreams, one of which was her hard-won internship and was becoming harder to do.

Her makeup had slid, making the once bold armor become a beard. She was arched over, so she looked wound up like a spring coil in a children's cheap metal toy.

Her phone’s faces looked up at her as she into it. Her eyes' focus did not falter.

Despite her close attention, she couldn't care less about anything she was looking at. Fliping down and down and away, her finger in the perfect position to move. She had enjoyed a few of them, even laughing. One video involved two men toss large pieces of metal on screen and she fliped away and a sketch involving the same person acting out each role with text over there forehead and she flipped before the punchline and “the latest marvel movie is good because...“and she flipped away and a highlights of a ridiculous reddit story that could not have happened and she fliped away and a video of wild animals jumping onto the deck of a boat and she watched its full three seconds and she realized she had to go to bed because she had a meeting the next morning and she flipped away to another video maybe try to check out Instagram next? Maybe she'd watch the latest documentary on YouTube but important educational politics stuff popped up. She'd watch the documentary after this last one. Maybe this next one is the last one?