Little things that make the world feel lived-in

I went to go get vaccinated at an on-campus clinic the other day. It was in a weird spot so we ended up taking a weird route to leave the building on our way out. We came across this one office with glass walls. They had a handful of things written out in dry-erase marker, including a joke of the day. The joke of the day, that day, was nothing. They'd left on vacation earlier this week and left a notice saying that their jokes would return when they got back. It was nice. They could have done nothing, but they didn't. When school started back up in the fall I noticed one of the four-person dorms had a whiteboard up on their door. It had contact information for the four of them, in case you needed to get in touch. They also had a "poll of the week," and they left a marker hanging nearby so you could leave a tally mark if you agreed with the question. For the first time since maybe my first year of university, I decided to do the same. A week or two later they took down the whiteboard,…

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