conspiracy theories and caffeine

had the weirdest conversation at the coffee shop today.

you guys know that guy who's always there? older dude, always reading like three newspapers at once and muttering to himself? he actually started talking to me while i was waiting for my latte.

he started talking to me about this anxiety medicine everyone is on and how it's apparently connected to some crazy corporate occult conspiracy.

OH and apparently there's this whole conspiracy theory about some research campus on the other side of the country. saint... something? saint juniper maybe? he said it's supposed to be like an endurance research facility but he thinks they're doing "classified government experiments on people." he kept saying "they take people and they never come back"

i was mostly just nodding and waiting for my drink but he seemed REALLY convinced. said his nephew's friend went to work there a few years ago for a company called miter inc or something and the family hasn't heard from him since. just like... stopped calling. stopped visiting. and when they tried to go see him they got turned away at the gate.

which like. that IS weird. but also maybe the guy just didn't want to see his family? idk i get it. i didn't say that though because he was clearly very invested in the story.

he also mentioned something about people going missing from the nearby towns. said there's been like a bunch of disappearances over the past few years and nobody talks about it.

anyway he finally got his coffee and left and i felt bad because he seemed genuinely distressed about it. but also... i don't know. research facilities do research. sometimes it's classified. not really that big of a conspiracy bud

sarah says i need to stop engaging with every random person who talks to me but honestly it made my afternoon SO much more interesting than staring at my screen for six hours.

back to work. this logo isn't going to design itself.