it's november third, and it's 12:24 a.m. today (yesterday), i rewatched the batman. when that movie first came out i couldn't stop thinking about it. i watched it twice in the theaters. today (yesterday), i watched it in gotham, between halloween and election day, on cold night, in a candlelit room. it feels like sometimes my life is circling inwards, like ripples in reverse — i see waves lapping at the shore, and years later, a stone is dropped into the sea. i spend too much time on my phone. i feel like something is wrong with me but i don't have the time to figure it out, so i'll just keep moving. something that excited me today was learning about a new dog breed — the ibizan hound. i think they are quite beautiful and strange. on the phone with my parents, they said i looked older, and it made me nervous. sandy tides push gentle waves out away from land, and my spare room is filled with orange and black balloons. you can't absorb it all at once. i'll nose around with my wiry snout and keep scrubbing.