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Read full entry →In a manner far more eager than the mundane situation reasonably requires.
Read full entry →A formal message drafted with intense, passive-aggressive corporate firmness.
Read full entry →In the general direction of a line, driven purely by herd mentality.
Read full entry →The creeping unease that ruins your afternoon because you have social plans at 7 PM.
Read full entry →Caught unprepared outdoors because the sky looked temporarily reliable.
Read full entry →Accidentally or intentionally dropping out of a fast-moving chat without saying goodbye.
Read full entry →To explain something verbally over text because writing it out feels like a chore.
Read full entry →To abandon one checkout line for another, usually right before the original one moves.
Read full entry →An unspecified housemate or colleague who everyone assumes will deal with a chore.
Read full entry →In a manner that heavily suggests a reply is coming, without actually sending one.
Read full entry →Optimistic that the fridge contains something better than it did moments ago.
Read full entry →In a way that creates lots of visible activity but produces no useful result.
Read full entry →An expression of reluctant agreement offered after minimal actual persuasion.
Read full entry →To put an object somewhere so secure that you immediately forget where it is.
Read full entry →To delay starting an important task by scrolling mindlessly through unrelated content.
Read full entry →To politely postpone a discussion without committing to a specific return date.
Read full entry →To unconsciously acquire an unfair share of a shared blanket while asleep.
Read full entry →Mentally and physically exhausted by having too many scheduled commitments.
Read full entry →Mentally prepared to consume food despite lacking any genuine physical hunger.
Read full entry →To delay a response deliberately in order to appear less eager or desperate.
Read full entry →The temporary inability to notice that the remote control is already in your hand.
Read full entry →The sudden nervous hesitation felt immediately before transmitting a message.
Read full entry →To answer with far less detail or emotion than originally intended.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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