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My first week working from home, I answered emails from bed until eleven a.m., then wondered why I felt exhausted by two in the afternoon despite barely doing any actual…

Last Black Friday, I bought a blender at two in the morning because a countdown timer told me only three were left in stock. Two weeks later, I found the…

During my last semester of college, I once pulled an all-nighter finishing a paper that had been assigned six weeks earlier. I remember sitting there at four a.m., surrounded by…

Last year I ordered takeout four times in one week, and when the bank statement came through, I actually laughed out loud in disbelief. Not because it was funny, but…

I moved into my first apartment with exactly one couch, a mattress on the floor, and a single lamp I’d inherited from my grandmother. The place looked like a waiting…

My alarm used to go off at seven, and I’d hit snooze until almost eight, then spend the next hour scrolling Instagram in bed while telling myself I’d “get up…

Two years ago I threw out a t-shirt that had exactly one hole in the collar. It cost me six dollars and lasted four months. Somehow that felt normal at…

I still remember my first attempt at getting an outfit stitched. I walked into a tailor’s shop in Lahore with a picture from Pinterest, said “bas aisa hi bana dein,”…

Last May, I stepped out for a wedding lunch in Lahore wearing a heavily embroidered suit I’d bought in a rush, and within twenty minutes I was sweating through the…