this year's costume

these past days i've been unknowingly running an experiment - preparing for Halloween - and it just dawned upon me that this year i'm going as a caricature of myself at age 21. my costume includes:

worry
regret
fantasy
solitude
nostalgia
diet soda
hyperbole
maudlinism
absenteeism
copious breads
lack of motivation
excessive ambition
increased dreaming
diminished appetite
the watching of clocks
anticipation of nightfall
dependence on technology
excessive use of future tense
rapid onset of loss of interest
keeping the the curtains drawn
preoccupation with dead writers