I was scrolling through my phone during lunch break, hiding in my usual corner of the staff lounge. Came across this post about a bodybuilder named Nick Walker doing a monster leg day. The tiny detail that caught me? He’s exactly five weeks out from the 2026 Mr. Olympia. Five weeks is such a specific, rigid countdown. I know that feeling, wait no, scratch that, I know that feeling of counting down to essay deadlines, report card submissions, even the end of a long school week in exact increments. It’s funny how people from totally different worlds fixate on the same small, ticking clocks. I took a sip of my vanilla latte and went back to grading thesis statements.