all it comes down to seconds

My life is about minutes.

How many more snoozes can I hit on the alarm clock? Each are five minutes. Five more minutes seems like such a good idea. Each. Time. I. Hit. The. Snooze.

Leaving at 1:45 to get there at 2:15... or what about 1:52 or 1:55 or 2? Could I make it at 2? My professor starts 15 minutes early and holds us over about 10 minutes each class. Minutes of my life I want and want back.

What about 3:30, then? Leave at 3:15? Is that too late? Am I going to be a minute late and have to knock on the door? Or should I leave at 3:08? Or is that too early? A few minutes of conversation with my colleagues? What does a few minutes of talking do? Do people like me more after those few minutes?

Then it rains. And the rain keeps coming, endlessly. I can't even count minutes there. It's just forever and ever. Need to appreciate that more, probably. :P

Generation ship idea

I decided she could be like an Archivist - a Gatekeeper - a Doorwatcher

So she is in charge of this huge building's keys

like they use cards not keys anymore

But she has access to everything in the building, down to the most tiny things, like cabinet doors and air vents, etc

So she's in the lowest basement looking for something because only she can go into this lowest level as the Gatekeepr

because no one EVER goes down there, as she's going through some files from a big metal bookcase thing, it falls over

then a door sort of appears after the crash, like it's been plastered over

she finds the card-scan thing and gets inside and is greeted by a very narrow, white hallway with one chair in the middle with a book next to it

at the end of the hallway is another door with another little card-scan thing

she goes inside timidly and there's no light showing up, and both sides of the hallway are mirrored from the waist up

they've got spiderweb cracks here and there on them

she looks at the book - it's something famous (we'd know it) but she doesn't recognize it because it's been so long since we left Earth

she goes to the end of the hallway and looks over the door but isn't sure how to open it up

then like all rooms on the ship, its memory-keeper AI comes up

a tiny, little mouse

and she interacts with it, trying to get information about the hallway and why it's there and why it was behind the plaster

she asks it to show her the last person who came in, and she realizes as it holograms out the video that it's her predecessor the last Gatekeeper for this huge building

he comes in a lot like she does and scans his card on the door she's facing now (the second door)

and it opens and he gets sucked inside and the door snaps shut as soon as he's dragged into the next place

She's like "um, guess I am not doing that..." and starts to leave, but as she does, the person who sent her downstairs to find the file comes after her to check on her

as soon as that person steps towards the hallway, the first door slams shut and she can't get out of it

then she realizes that the only way out is indeed the second door

and she asks if her predecessor ever came back

and the mouse says, "Yes, he did. In fragments."

and here I am tempted to show the predecessor guy returning but sort of a shell of a man, totally haunted, pale, absolutely unstable and unable to perform his duties

but not sure if it's creepier not to show him at all

plus I'd like the mouse to say something creepy

"Pieces of a man returned."

something like that.