Damn, used to think more tools helped but this actually makes sense.

At the board game cafe downtown, I watched a player create a slideshow to say sorry for stealing a resource. It had graphs and everything. Your friend's letter sounds just as bad. Some people take these games way too seriously. I feel for you, having to sit through that instead of just playing.

Maybe I should eat outside more often. My brain fog is so THICK I once spent an hour on a billing error that was right in front of me.

Yeah that makes total sense, cardboard is super porous. I read somewhere that the fibers act like a sponge for smells, especially fruit oils. So your banana boxes probably soaked up all that sweet, sticky residue from the store. It's not just a smell, it's like the actual stuff gets in there. My old records still faintly smell like the peach boxes I moved them in two years ago, it never really goes away.

The show's ability to capture that unspoken tension is what made it so powerful for me. Do you think the actors' minimal expressions added more weight than the book's internal thoughts? In the book, we get Connell's and Marianne's inner voices, but on screen, it's all in their eyes and body language. That choice could make or break the adaptation, and they NAILED it.