It was already past midnight. I wouldn’t have noticed if my AirPods did not shut down. It is frightening sometimes how I can focus on my work for hours and hours. For normal people, after being assaulted in broad daylight, the best reaction is to take a rest or visit the hospital for stress debriefing. I don’t do that- that is not my kind of thing. I believe I have been in so many stressful moments that somehow I feel that I eat stress for breakfast.

I asked google to open the lights; for some reason, I felt hungry when I could see everything. I rushed to my fridge with...