You ever notice how sometimes you start thinking about something, like how long it actually takes for toast to pop up, and then, without really meaning to, your brain just takes a sharp left turn into something completely unrelated, like whether clouds actually have favorite shapes? It's weird, because toast seems simple, right? Bread, heat, time. But then again, time's a whole thing. People say “a watched pot never boils,” but that's only because we're bad at waiting. Waiting changes time. Or at least the feeling of time. Like when your phone says it's updating for “five minutes,” but you've aged three emotional decades before it finishes.