October- Once

Once a person has started to look for something, that person may see it all the time and, consequently, over a period of time, can be considered to be experts at finding that something. Experts, if you will.

From the quite accidental breach into the subjects of strangeness around them, Mike, Zach, and Nick had become professional-leveled weirdness detectors. The only reason why they haven't gotten nominations yet was because sometimes their readings get a little bit off from the amount of weirdness caused by themselves which could, upon occasions, be quite a distraction.

Mike, after being introduced to the idea of Catch-22 by Zach, had discovered much paradoxical logic around him. He had, in fact, concluded that the world was going to hell but since many people from various countries had already predicted this (some of them under the influence of chemicals of a questionable nature) he was unable to seriously further his theory. Also, the fact that he consider being commended by his math professor a Truly Strange Ordeal prevented the others from taking him too seriously. Nevertheless, it was possible for Mike to deduce that the world was guided by laws that worked like a leaky steam-boiler in a thermonuclear reaction.

In other words: it doesn't.

Zach, being true to his major, noted the strange things people did and were doing, such as loving and hating others because of something people see in themselves, people blocking other people out and then complaining about being alone or people, after a successful life, deciding that they'd rather move to Switzerland and herd goats. He felt rather sorry for the goats.

Nick just concluded the world was nutsy and enjoyed it, his cheery reasoning being that the world'd be a horribly boring place if everything were perfectly normal.
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Let come what may. Be prepared to wave 'bye-bye' to normality! (I think this'll turn out to be fantasy fiction, by the way.)