Entries tagged with "dream"
Dream
posted by srah on April 27, 2008 9:03 AM
Tags: dream, middle school, rats
I dreamt last night that I was in middle school. I had tried out for the lead in a musical, but the same girl got the part who ALWAYS got the lead in musicals (not in real life, where we didn't put on any musicals in middle school - just in the dream). I was upset because the drama teacher never showed any indication he'd even considered anyone else. Robin and I were talking about this as we left school to walk home, but I realized I'd left my jacket in my locker. So I went back to the school...
Dream
posted by srah on March 6, 2008 12:04 PM
Tags: dream, roommate, shopping
It's been a while since I've posted about a dream, but I remembered so much detail from this one I had to record it! I dreamt last night that I was living with my college roommate in a one-room apartment somewhere in a town near water (in my dream it was still Srahtown, but Srahtown happened to be near water). The apartment was all one room, but it was very large, so I guess it was more of a loft. Is that what a loft is? For some reason even though we had all this space, we still had our...
Dream
posted by srah on December 22, 2007 8:34 AM
I dreamt I was at the Vatican and they announced - to the the cheers of the masses - that instead of fish-finger sandwiches, they were going to be serving fish-patty sandwiches with marzipan. Also, some gypsies almost pushed the Pope over and the Dionne quintuplets were there....
Dream
posted by srah on December 7, 2007 6:58 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt that I lived in this neighborhood in Ann Arbor that doesn't really exist but has shown up in my dreams before in the past. I think it's based on Pittsfield Village, mixed with the neighborhood in Ypsilanti where my friend Shannon used to live. Anyway, my family was looking out the window when a ball of fire came out of the sky and set fire to a patch of our neighbors' lawn. People kept coming over and trying to stomp it out, then they'd catch fire themselves, then spread it to other parts of the lawn. We kept...
I had a dream! A dream about you, baby
posted by srah on November 28, 2007 11:16 PM
Tags: dream, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007
I dreamt last night that I was invited to a dinner by a college friend I haven't seen in years. It was a huge dinner and I think it was held at my mom's church. At one point, my college friend attracted everyone's attention and got down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend. "This is stupid," I loudly announced, "They're already married." Then I stomped out of the room. They are married in real life, but they weren't in the dream, and apparently my dream-self was more in touch with the real world than with the dream-world. I...
I have dreamed thee too long, never seen thee or touched thee but known thee with all of my heart
posted by srah on November 18, 2007 10:17 PM
Tags: dream, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, the beatles
I had a two-layer dream last night where I dreamt (within the dream) that I was at the opening day of a Beatles museum and I was some kind of special guest. John gave me a tour and a very young George made eyes at me. One of them was in love with me, but I don't remember now which one it was. I must have seen Paul somewhere too, because when I "woke up" from the dream within the dream, I told my mom that I'd dreamt I'd seen all of the Beatles except Ringo. I didn't remember any...
Today all my dreams will come true
posted by srah on November 11, 2007 7:33 PM
Tags: dream, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, religion
I dreamt last night that I was in a Catholic church, dressed in a frumpy dress and a choir robe, and everyone was expecting me to help with Communion. I don't know why, because I'm not even eligible to take Communion in a Catholic church. I complained loudly about this but no one cared. Someone asked me if I was a novitiate¹, which offended me no end. I shouted, "No! I don't know why I'm dressed like this!" Then later they made me hand snacks out to the old people and children in the congregation. These horrible kids took all...
Dream
posted by srah on October 27, 2007 5:25 PM
Tags: bunnies, dream, miniature horses
I had a dream last night where I befriended a very insecure miniature horse. It was hard to win the horse over, but eventually it came to love me. Then someone brought their baby bunnies over to where we were, and just sort of dumped a box of them onto the ground so that the soft, velvety baby bunnies tumbled all over each other. My miniature horse friend took a liking to the baby bunnies and was petting them (I don't know how you pet something when you have hooves, but it made perfect sense in the dream). The bunnies...
Dream
posted by srah on September 16, 2007 10:58 AM
Tags: cannibals, dream, the departed
I dreamt last night that I was both watching and - at times - in the movie The Departed, which had Jessica Simpson as the female lead. In this dream version of The Departed, there was a twist at the end where it turned out everyone had been committing cannibalism all along. The dream was so vivid that it took me a long time after I woke up to convince myself that that's not how The Departed actually ended....
Dream
posted by srah on September 15, 2007 8:49 AM
Tags: ann arbor, dream, robocop
I dreamt that I was in Ann Arbor and that Michigan Stadium was on the corner of Hill and State. Outside the stadium, there were a LOT of taco stands, including one that catered exclusively to fans of the visiting team, and had the OSU logo all over it. I went down into a subway stop right near there, but then came right back up. I don't remember now what happened down there - if I decided not to take the subway or if in my dream, as in real life, it turned out Ann Arbor didn't have a subway...
Dream
posted by srah on September 6, 2007 5:30 PM
I dreamt I went to a coffee shop where Jamelah was my barista. She made me my drink, set it in front of me, then said, "I can't sell this to you." I was really annoyed because the drink was within reach and she was denying me! She said it was because she couldn't make change for whatever I had (how did you know I didn't have any small bills, Jamelah? How did you know?). Then she wouldn't accept my credit card. Finally she decided she could break my large bill, but I wasn't going to like my change. She...
Dream
posted by srah on August 18, 2007 9:17 AM
Tags: dream, duck soup, movies, srahtown
I had a nightmare last night where I found another Chinese restaurant in srahtown. It's not that I dislike Chinese food - it's just that Chinese and Mexican are all the "ethnic" food we've got in town and I think we could stand to diversify. I was driving around srahtown with my family and kept finding all of these stores and restaurants that I think are standard for srahtown in my dreams, although they don't exist in real life. In my dreams, srahtown seems to be an old-timey Wild West town that is going to be a ghost town at...
Dream
posted by srah on August 14, 2007 6:12 PM
I had a dream last night where I had just moved into a new apartment across the street from my parents' house. In the dream, I woke up at 7:30 and had to be at work at 8, but friends and family kept coming into my house to slow me down and I felt it was very important to put all of my welcome mats out before I left for work, which took a long time because I had a seemingly endless supply of welcome mats and doors to put them in front of. The owners of the apartment hadn't...
Dream
posted by srah on June 5, 2007 5:17 PM
Tags: dream, eye, health, insulin resistance
I told everyone at work yesterday that I called in sick yesterday morning because I baked cookies on Sunday night and sampled my wares a little too much. This is the truth, but it is not the whole truth. As a result of my late-night sugar binging, my blood sugar dropped during the night and I woke up a zombie. Normally when I wake up with low-blood-sugar-zombie syndrome, I just eat some breakfast, take my pills and get on with my morning (or I assume I have the flu because I'm stupid and I forget sometimes that I am now...
Dream
posted by srah on April 28, 2007 6:51 AM
Tags: dream, ugly betty, zombies
I had a dream last night where I was in an episode of Ugly Betty where the sky turned dark all of a sudden and wild animals went wild and were tearing through the parking lot of the strip mall where Betty, her boyfriend and I had been shopping. Betty's wonderful boyfriend (not Henry, but clearly he was supposed to be as lovable as Henry) broke up with her because she couldn't adequately express her feelings, so she threw a handful of cigarettes at him. Then we had to walk-run to the car because everyone except the three of us...
Bedroom problems
posted by srah on April 9, 2007 12:19 PM
Tags: dream, pillow talk, smoke detector
My smoke detector decided to start dying around 4am this morning. I lay there, hoping that it would give up the ghost altogether or that the sharp little staccato "BEEP"s would space themselves out long enough for me to fall back asleep and sleep through the night. Unfortunately neither of these scenarios occurred so I eventually dragged myself out of bed and replaced the battery. I could have been lazy and just taken the old battery out, but then I wouldn't have been able to fall back asleep for fear that a fire would spontaneously break out while I was...
Dream
posted by srah on February 27, 2007 7:56 AM
Robert Altman was still alive and was building an ark (I'm sure this was influenced by James Cameron's Jesus tomb movie thing). He held a big press conference to announce it and somehow I got to go. Everyone stood around discussing it and I was of the opinion that it was a bad idea, because the cats would eat the rats and so on. Also, there seemed to be no indication that an ark was going to be needed. Unfortunately, I woke up before Altman really got going on his speech, so I never found out why we needed an...
Dream
posted by srah on January 22, 2007 6:43 AM
Tags: battlestar galactica, dream
I read this introduction to Battlestar Galactica last night in the hopes of understanding all the hype (since everyone seems to be watching it now, and not just my nerdy very very hip boyfriend). I didn't really understand it any more than I've understood anything else I've seen about the show, but then I had a dream where I was in the show (which I have never watched). First I was in a meeting where everybody there was two different models of Cylons - one that looked like some kind of nasty reptilian beast like from Alien and the other...
Dream
posted by srah on January 15, 2007 8:43 PM
Tags: cannibals, dream, mackinac island
I dreamt last night that there was a tribe of cannibals living on Mackinac Island. You could visit their settlement and the museum on its grounds. We went to the museum, which was very expensive, and my dad crossed the velvet ropes in order to look more closely at the caption on a photo on the wall. This angered the cannibal docents, who started growling and moving toward him, so he returned to the other side of the ropes and we went on to the gift shop, which was also very expensive. Stupid cannibals, taking all of our money! But...
Dream
posted by srah on November 29, 2006 7:57 PM
Tags: britney spears, dream
I dreamt last night that Britney Spears was one of my eight brothers and sisters. But she was clearly an unfit mother, so we were the ones who had to call all over the place, trying to find a private school for Sean Preston. They say that dreams are a window to your unconscious and that things that appear in your dreams are symbols of the things you're really concerned about. So it would seem that somewhere in the back of my mind, I am very very concerned about the well-being and education of little Sean Preston Spears-Federline. As we...
Dream
posted by srah on October 30, 2006 7:35 PM
Tags: borat, dream, school of information, university of michigan
I dreamt the other night that I took some time off work to go back to Ann Arbor and went to this SI lecture that was held in a trailer, way back in the wilds in some obscure corner of a University of Michigan campus. On the way I crossed a street behind this girl who was talking to her friend about studying abroad. I interrupted them and gave her all kinds of advice and she followed me as I walked toward the lecture, then she was going to have to find her way back to civilization on her own....
Dream
posted by srah on October 25, 2006 7:52 PM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that instead of living miles from Ohio's border with Indiana, I lived miles from Ohio's border with Italy. My family took a wrong turn and ended up in Ravenna, Italy, so we checked out a gift shop, which was owned by an old Amish lady. My grandma turned out to be chillin' in the café there. I looked over the things for sale in the gift shop, like "Greatest Hits of Ireland" and "Greatest Hits of Spain" CDs, but I didn't have any Euros. Then we went out to watch the harness races. I have never...
Dream
posted by srah on September 28, 2006 6:55 AM
Tags: billy bob thornton, dream, paris
I dreamt last night that my whole family went to Paris. We were going to show the exchange student the view from some tall building, so we got in the elevator to go up as high as we could. Just as the elevator was about to leave, Billy Bob Thornton and his entourage got on to go to the penthouse. There was some kind of elaborate locking mechanism for getting to the penthouse, so they started engaging that, then Billy Bob wandered off the elevator. We waited for, like, fifteen minutes, then I got off the elevator and found Billy...
Dream
posted by srah on September 17, 2006 6:59 AM
Tags: dream, the office
I fell asleep on the couch last night and when I woke up at 6:45, I was annoyed that I had slept through the night AND forgotten to turn on my alarm. I got up and started making tea so I could get ready for work. Fortunately it only took me about two minutes to realize it's Sunday and I could go back to bed. First I thought I would record my dream: I worked in the office from The Office, except instead of a paper company, it was a golf ball company (plus a small shop where Meredith sold...
Dream
posted by srah on September 10, 2006 8:48 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I was in Arabic class and hadn't done the homework. AND I was eating an enormous bowl of cereal and spilled it all over the floor. Then a girl in my class and I were apparently cousins and we were staying with our huge extended family in a house in the country (probably inspired by watching Jeeves & Wooster on TV last night) full of aunts who cackled at us. I believe there was some kind of scavenger hunt going on, and the cackling aunts liked to change everybody's bedrooms around without telling anyone. Later...
Dream
posted by srah on July 23, 2006 9:33 PM
Tags: dream, saturday night live, tv
My dreams last night were NBC-licious! I dreamt that I was at NBC's headquarters, where they were making decisions about next fall's lineup. I showed up in the office and told them my ultra-secret method for getting more people to watch NBC: start every single show with a sex scene. "That will really catch people's attention," I explained. Next I was at the place where they film Saturday Night Live and I found out that starting this season, they were going to take me out of the credits at the beginning where they introduce each cast member. I had been...
Dream
posted by srah on July 3, 2006 12:53 PM
Tags: dream, hugh laurie
I dreamt last night that Hugh Laurie won me at a charity auction. Commence your shrieks of envy!...
Dream
posted by srah on May 13, 2006 8:03 AM
Apparently it's not cool to tell your dreams to the Internet. To that I say "Suck it, Internet, you're going to read my dreams or else skip on to the next entry! Boo-yeah!" "Boo-yeah" has, unfortunately, become my catchphrase of the weekend. I dreamt that I went to a fanciful land like Narnia. There were about eight of us in the group, including apete and his quadruplet brother and sisters and Rose (and possibly Bernard too) from Lost. We were all lead by some bearded guy who was sort of like Zeke from Lost. We went to this fanciful land...
Dream
posted by srah on April 26, 2006 6:25 AM
Tags: alfie, american idol, american idol 5, dream, tv
I dreamt last night that my sister and I were in the top 12 on American Idol. They had flown the top 12 to the Globe Theatre in London for a Very Special Top 12 Episode or something. We were all sitting around in the audience seats (which doesn't make any sense because the Globe doesn't have theatre seating) and waiting for things to get started. Sway and Gedeon were there too, but I don't remember seeing Taylor anywhere. We had to organize ourselves into pairs or groups of three (I don't think this was for singing purposes, as the...
Dream
posted by srah on April 16, 2006 10:10 PM
Tags: american idol, dream, simon cowell, tv
I had a dream that I was on a bus tour, maybe in Israel again, and Simon Cowell and the Queen of England were on the tour with me. Simon kept bitching about how much he hated Ryan Seacrest and was trying to tell America that he was gay in order to ruin his life, and how it was top secret and I couldn't tell anyone, but he was going to leave the show next year. Since it was a dream, I think it's okay that I've been telling everyone I know....
Dream
posted by srah on April 5, 2006 5:30 PM
Tags: dream, israel, iust, npr, the abbey
I woke up this morning when my clock radio went off, as usual. Much to my dismay, however, I fell back asleep - or at least half asleep, to the point where the radio was integrated into my dream. For the next... half an hour or whatever it was that I overslept, I was in some kind of boarding school with people from my 2004 internship and from the Israel trip, all of whom kept nagging me about pledging money to my local NPR station....
Dream
posted by srah on February 5, 2006 8:34 AM
Tags: arrested development, dream
Last night I dreamt an episode of Arrested Development where Rita was going to be in some kind of televised sporting event so Michael was trying to arrange for the whole family to watch it together, George Michael had decided it was finally time to reveal his feelings for Maeby, and Lucille and Oscar were up to something too, but I'm not sure what. It involved huge Esther Williams-esque musical synchronized swimming numbers (I mean really huge, like thousands and thousands of people) and Michael collecting George Michael and Maeby from the swimming thing, dragging them home to see Rita's...
Dream
posted by srah on February 4, 2006 8:50 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I went to Paris with my dad and got lost a lot by getting on the wrong buses and metro lines. We found some fountain that apparently I'd seen in the movie Sabrina and a lot of other stuff that I'd never seen on previous trips to Paris. Later the whole family was on this bus full of tourists and we went to some market where I was having a good old time speaking French to a saleslady and some other American tourist. We ran into Robin's mom, who had missed her bus, so we...
Dream
posted by srah on January 29, 2006 7:37 PM
Tags: arrested development, bookstore, dream, ohio state university
I woke up this morning horizontal across the bed, having just dreamt that I was sitting on a folding chair in the middle of the Ohio State University bookstore, grousing at a freshman because she was complaining too loudly about not being able to find the books she needed for her class. Couldn't she see that I was trying to watch Arrested Development on a TV I'd brought from home? Some people....
Dream
posted by srah on January 6, 2006 9:00 PM
Tags: dream
In my dream last night there were snakes everywhere. There was a copperhead, a black one with blue and green stripes and a short, fat orangey red one among others, and they were all squirming around on the floor. In order to get past them I did some kind of acrobatic feat where I swung around on the door then did a handstand while balancing myself on the doorknob....
Dream
posted by srah on December 15, 2005 9:02 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt earlier this week that I worked with Tony Danza, who was very frustrated and unhappy that people (including me) kept accusing him of being a player. "That's my character on TV," he would whine. "I am a very nice guy in real life, if only people would take the time to get to know me. But no, they think they know what I'm like." Sorry, Tony....
Dream
posted by srah on September 16, 2005 4:49 AM
Tags: christopher brookmyre, dream, huron high school
I just had a dream where I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, AWESOME!. So I think that's enough reason to be blogging it in the middle of the night (before I forget too much of it). Unfortunately, a lot of it seems to hinge on being familiar with Huron High School and the works of Christopher Brookmyre. So... my sister might like it. There was a siege at Huron High School. I'm not sure how we knew it was going on, since we didn't see any of the bad guys. I may have been getting...
Dream
posted by srah on September 13, 2005 5:44 PM
Tags: dream
I don't remember what happened in my dream last night, but I woke with the last line of dialogue repeating over and over in my head in a taunting voice: "I can't believe you swallowed it, you stupid naïve mushrooms!"...
Dream
posted by srah on September 11, 2005 11:53 AM
Tags: dream
I don't remember my dream from last night, but I did remember a dream yesterday that I'd had earlier in the week. It's been a busy week for my subconscious! I was participating in the Ironman Triathlon and my main rival was Lance Armstrong. One of the events involved swimming out to an old rowboat (this sounds more like summer camp than the Ironman, but oh well). I beat Lance there and discovered that the rowboat was full of people from SI....
Dream
posted by srah on September 8, 2005 11:46 PM
Tags: dream
I remembered a lot more when I first woke up this morning, but I didn't get around to writing anything down. Now all I remember is that I was getting my hair cut at my usual salon, except that it was connected to Whole Foods. In the middle of my haircut, the stylist took a break so I went browsing around the store. I think I was hiding from some people I hated and I remember a big deli counter with a lot of different kinds of ham. When I came back, the stylist had left for the day and...
Dream
posted by srah on September 7, 2005 7:05 AM
Tags: dream
The last thing I remember of my dream last night before I woke up was that I was mailing some of my teeth along with the check to my credit card company. They had their own little envelope inside the main envelope, so the company must have been used to receiving them....
Dream
posted by srah on August 18, 2005 8:52 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt that I got a job as a teacher in Utah. Agnès and apete were also teachers there - Agnès was a Mormon and apete was in the small minority of gentiles (I believe that between teachers and students there were about 10). I tried to be good and tried to fit in, but eventually it was too much and I exploded. I stood up in an assembly and yelled about how I hated some of them and I liked some of them and I loved some of them but I couldn't keep up the charade and pretend to...
Dream
posted by srah on August 8, 2005 1:00 AM
Tags: dream
Before I go to bed tonight, I want to record the dream I had last night: I was staying in a cabin in the woods with my very large family. I went off somewhere (maybe to the mall, because part of my dream took place at the mall but I'm not sure where that was) and when I came back, I had to cross a river to get back to the cabin. I came to the bridge and it was covered with these savage orange raccoons. I decided to go to the next bridge, but the raccoons were there, too....
Dream
posted by srah on July 31, 2005 10:23 AM
Tags: dream, fashion, job search
I had a very frustrating dream last night where I was shopping for a shell to wear under my suits for my job interviews. I was at Briarwood and would go from store to store, failing and getting more frustrated. At Ann Taylor (which was strangely coed), the smallest size they had was 5 and the salesperson made me try it on even though I knew it wouldn't fit. At Macy's (there's no Macy's at Briarwood!) they didn't have any shells, but the saleswomen were trying to convince me to get a lingerie top instead. I told them that it...
Dream
posted by srah on July 23, 2005 10:24 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I was Inspector Rebus, as played by John Hannah. Someone was after DS Clarke and myself so there were a lot of exciting car chases and things. We got to what was apparently Siobhan's house and ran inside, barely locking the door behind us before our pursuers reached it. Siobhan decided that we should spray through the cracks in the door with a spray bottle filled with water, because that's what they used to do to her dog. Apparently the guy ran away and then Jamie Bell (who was - okay, I'll spoil it -...
Dream
posted by srah on July 15, 2005 8:30 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I was on the police force. Apparently all of the cops in my department were renegade, rogue cops who didn't like to play by the rules... except for one. Played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's character (whose name I've now forgotten) was good and honest and true and followed the rules and loved everyone regardless of their race, creed or color and had really perfect dental hygiene. The commanding officers loved him and we all hated him. But just before I woke up, he won us over with a stirring speech about love for family....
Dream
posted by srah on July 7, 2005 6:20 PM
Tags: dream
I had a really boring dream last night, where Cheryl and Amanda and I were going shopping and just trying on outfit after outfit after outfit. I was pretty bored, but the weird thing is, I thought I was awake. My mom woke me up this morning and I was confused because I thought I was already awake. Then she told me "There have been some bombings in London" and I wished that that was the dream......
Dream
posted by srah on June 30, 2005 1:17 PM
Tags: dream
Unfortunately I've forgotten a lot of the details because I didn't type this up right away. But here's what I remember: Last night I dreamt that I was at a school function and no one liked me. I think I'm allowing you too much access to my subconscious concerns. I didn't know that I was worried that people don't like me, but my dreams seem to indicate otherwise. My class at SI were putting on a play, so there was a lot of behind-the-scenes preparation, but then we all ended up in the audience instead. No one wanted to sit...
Dream
posted by srah on June 29, 2005 1:18 PM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I went to an Indian wedding where everyone hated me and I kept eating baked beans. I ate and ate to the point where I felt kind of sick when I woke up, from dream-eating all the dream-beans....
Dream
posted by srah on May 22, 2005 10:19 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I went to Cold Stone Creamery and got coffee ice cream with Oreos™ and Legos™....
Dream
posted by srah on April 20, 2005 8:53 AM
Tags: dream
I had a dream last night where I was on a car trip with Cheryl, Robin and Harini and we stopped to get ice cream at this roadside stand. I went to the bathroom, but it had a big window into the stall, which looked right out onto the ice cream line. So people could see in! My grandma was there too and she was making fun of me. Then I was back in Vichy and ran into two of my hôtellerie students, who were now selling electronics. I was disappointed that they hadn't gone very far in hôtellerie but...
Dreams, etc.
posted by srah on April 14, 2005 12:21 AM
Tags: dream
When I woke up this morning, I looked at my watch and one hand was on the 9 and the other on the 12. 9am, thort I, An excellent time to wake up. Alas, 11:45 is not so excellent a time to wake up. Who on earth needs that much sleep? I wish I'd woken up earlier because I was having a really frustrating dream about golfing with all of these preppy people. I had never been golfing (I have never been golfing in real life, either) and was very nervous and didn't know what I was doing. The first...
Dream
posted by srah on March 23, 2005 2:43 PM
Tags: dream
I only remember snippets from last night's dreams: I was at the UN and it kept jumping back and forth through time so one minute it would be the present and the next, I was being teased by Dag Hammarskjold. Ah, Dag. We were the best of friends.I was on Mackinac Island with some friends who had never been there and was determined to take them to the Grand Hotel even though they weren't really that interested in it. Mackinac Island was a lot bigger in my dream and I couldn't figure out how we were going to get there....
Dream
posted by srah on March 16, 2005 4:38 PM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that both of my college roommates hated me and were being passive-aggressive to me at Meijer. Next I had to catch a plane to leave France but we were at some kind of bad party with no one we knew, out in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. I had left my suitcases at the hotel (which was owned by my evil boss from this summer) and had to get back there before I could go to the airport. I should email my roommates. I don't know what happened with the plans I made with...
Dream
posted by srah on February 9, 2005 10:54 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I wanted to take a class at the Law School and had to go ask for permission from some big pooh-bah at their school. He showed me all over the school and was about to set me up with a roommate and a dorm room when I realized he thought I wanted to be a law student instead of just taking one of their classes. So instead he tried to fix me up with his nephew....
Dream
posted by srah on January 18, 2005 8:45 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that MaTT had a new background image on his website and I had to take him to Vichy to convince him that the image was a photograph of the high school I worked in. While I was at the school, I got walked in on in the bathroom by almost all of my former students as well as some students I didn't have, I ran into a certain purple-hating SI professor, who apparently had an office in the school and came over to Vichy for 3 days every week even though she didn't actually teach there...
Dream
posted by srah on January 11, 2005 7:51 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that I was in a sort of Lemony-Snicketish situation where someone was brainwashing people into killing other people at my schoool. We knew who was going to be killed and we knew the term that was supposed to trigger it, but we didn't know who was brainwashed so we just took the victim and ran. We were galloping across the desert on horses with huge bubbles over our heads to keep sand out of our eyes and lungs when somehow we found out who it was. So we set back off for the school. On the...
Dream
posted by srah on January 10, 2005 7:19 AM
Tags: dream
I dreamt last night that they were filming the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean and I had taken over the Marty Feldman role as Igor in some kind of Young Frankenstein cross-over. I knew I only got the role because I was married to the writer (who may have been Rob Reiner) and I knew I wasn't very good. But once I found a voice to use and they actually started telling me when they were filming, I was all set to go. Except that I didn't know any of my lines, so I ended up ad-libbing things like...
Dream
posted by srah on December 16, 2004 10:22 AM
Tags: dream
I had a dream where we went to meet a distant cousin. He lived on the shores of a big lake. My mom parked the car and went in to meet him, leaving us behind in the car. The waves from the lake kept getting higher and higher until they were so high they would touch the roof of the car. I decided I should back up and get farther away from the lake so I started up the car while the waves were receding and put it into reverse... and it went forward. I got really scared because the...
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posted by srah on December 2, 2004 5:25 PM
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I normally love my dreams. They are wacky and inexplicable and can't be analyzed (by me anyway) with any kind of normal dream-symbolism. Generally I like it when I can remember a dream. What I don't like about remembering my dreams is when they affect my real life. During the course of my dream last night, a bunch of my friends rented some kind of beach house, we got trapped there (in a rainstorm?), there may have been some kind of argument about Elmer's Glue and people kept walking in on me in the bathroom. Then at one point in...
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posted by srah on November 13, 2004 7:44 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was approached in the graduate library and asked if I wanted to be in a band. Apparently someone's entertainment had fallen through and they needed to form a band quickly. So I ended up in a band with Matt and with Joe from Team America: World Police. Joe was a human rather than a puppet in the dream, but that didn't really make it much better because we were still completely unmatched. Our "manager" found a piece of tape to put on Joe's face and lip so that he would have a permanent sneer,...
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posted by srah on November 11, 2004 1:46 PM
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My dreams last night were full of frustration at receiving counterfeit money in change ($3 and $4 bills!) and being bored at a friend's summer camp. I wanted to wake up just to escape the malaise....
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posted by srah on November 5, 2004 8:06 AM
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I dreamt about President Bush again last night, perhaps influenced by one of Bryan Adams' latest posts. This time rather than campaigning, the president was in the Oval Office, sitting down to start some work again. The Oval Office had fences and bulletproof plastic all around it so he was very lonely and kept trying to start conversations with people who walked by. While I hadn't minded him being stupid in my last dream where we were just hanging out together, it really bothered me that he had the mind of a small child in this one, because he was...
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posted by srah on October 31, 2004 9:45 AM
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Jez has already heard me tell people about this dream at least eleven times, but here's one more. There was a political event going on in my front yard. George W. Bush was already there, then John Kerry arrived in a hot air balloon and sort of rappelled down to the yard from it. People stood around being political, but it was really boring and lame and it wasn't going to affect my vote, which I think may have been the cause for the big rally. So I just grabbed John and George by the hand and we went for...
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posted by srah on October 28, 2004 12:10 AM
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I dreamt last night that Mr B------ and I were going on a road trip to New York City. We were trying to figure out if we should drive his car all the way or if we should drive to Greenwich, CT and take the train from there... but as we were discussing this, suddenly we were on the train (and somehow the discussion was continuing). Rachel and Nnnick were also in the train with us. We were getting near the city and could see lots of buildings, when suddenly a huge dart (almost like an arrow) came shooting through...
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posted by srah on September 27, 2004 11:32 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was sitting in a movie theatre, watching a movie, when the lights came on and Mr T walked in with two deliverymen. Mr T started announcing that he had some flowers for someone who was a geek and some other things that made me suspicious that it was me, so I sank deeper and deeper into my seat until Mr T found me and presented me with a bouquet of red roses, plus two brown ones (not dead, just roses that were brown), a black one and a white one. The four extra flowers...
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posted by srah on August 9, 2004 9:09 AM
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I dreamt that my family bought a used car sight-unseen from some guys at the mall, then went to the movie theatre and bought tickets to some movie because you got a coupon for free cigarettes with every ticket. We didn't want to go to the movie - we just wanted some free smokes. We bought the tickets from Slater from Saved By The Bell, then walked out the exit to the parking lot to look for our new car. It was this pimped-out futuristic car with domes over the seats - sort of like the 1960s Batmobile, except painted...
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posted by srah on July 31, 2004 5:31 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was walking through an airport with a bunch of people including my mom, friends from home, and my sleazy boss. At one point, I just turned around and started ripping into my sleazy boss, telling him what was wrong with him and what was wrong with the company. My mom was later concerned that I would lose my job, but I pointed out to him that I have three weeks left and that I was going to finish my projects before I left. He actually took me seriously and got really depressed. Someone told...
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posted by srah on July 26, 2004 2:46 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was telling Becky I kept almost walking into our bathroom even though it's not ours anymore... then I looked around and I was standing in our bathroom as I said it. Later, another of my colleagues was wearing an awful green kilt and tossing me up in the air like a baby, but high enough that I almost hit the ceiling. Clearly this dream means that my subconscious is tortured by the lack of hygienic facilities. And the overwhelming fear that Chris is going to turn Scottish and throw me around....
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posted by srah on May 17, 2004 9:46 AM
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Somewhere in my dream last night, I ran into Donald Rumsfield and felt obliged to be nice to him. When I first saw him, I made a face, but then when he called me out on it, I made up some garbage about how I didn't agree with his politics, but I thought he was a pretty nice guy and I wouldn't hold it against him. I am such a wuss. I've only been retaining bits and pieces and impressions from dreams in the past few days......
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posted by srah on May 12, 2004 8:15 AM
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I dreamt that I had to take all of my old orientation group from Albion to Meijer at the beginning of a new school year. It was lame that I had to do orientation or take them to Meijer, because they've all been here three years and know what they're doing. They were also shipped off to Meijer before they had a chance to drop off their luggage, so we had to lug it through the store. Then I was walking down the street with my dad when this car drove up with "Blogger" written on it. I pointed it...
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posted by srah on May 9, 2004 10:42 AM
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I'm having trouble distinguishing dreams from reality lately. I was awoken yesterday by a human voice saying "beep" and I don't know if it was something that happened in my dream or if someone really beeped at me. I dreamt that MaTT said he was going to call me between 6 and 7, emailed him about the dream but thought he'd already left for home, then freaked out when he called me at 6:45. Apparently he had actually read the email before he left. Now I think I dreamt that I got a mix CD in the mail from Krista....
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posted by srah on May 7, 2004 8:27 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was at my middle school and I had to wait around for something among all the middle-schoolers and I was annoyed because they weren't respecting my authori-tye. Then there was, like, a tidal wave and suddenly the edge of the sidewalk was now the edge of the Atlantic Ocean or something. Next I was in France and decided to go for a walk, then turned that walk into a run because I could run quickly and for a long time if I didn't pick my feet very far off the ground, but then I...
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posted by srah on April 26, 2004 8:36 AM
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I dreamt last night that Lewis (friend from Albion) picked me up to take me to school today, but I was running late. He said that was okay because he was still in his pyjamas too - but he'd brought along his clothes so he could change while I was in the shower. Next I was at Bubble Island and an editorial or letter to the editor that Ursula had written was pinned up on the bulletin board. I pointed that out to the counter-guy, who had been hitting on me, and he got excited and made her go through...
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posted by srah on April 9, 2004 8:34 AM
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I dreamt last night that we moved to the house across the street, which was bigger and had a finished basement, but just had empty wall behind all of the closet doors and had no doorbell. I also dreamt that John Stevens' next performance involved him a) wearing a ponytail, b) wailing on the banjo and c) wearing a Utilikilt. Remember what I said about being psychic? Yeah, now I'm praying doubly....
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posted by srah on April 3, 2004 9:39 AM
Tags: american idol, american idol 3, dream, john stevens, tv
I dreamt last night that I was in the audience for this week's American Idol. It was not on the usual stage - I think it was the stage at Pioneer High School. The judges weren't there, but I guess they were watching it on TV and would call in their comments. I was only able to see the first contestant before I woke up. John Stevens came out in a yellow bell-bottomed suit with a ruffly orange shirt and was surrounded by a pack of children who were supposed to chase him around the stage like adoring fans as...
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posted by srah on March 21, 2004 2:51 PM
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I woke up this morning and remembered a dream where I had been travelling. I had a layover at O'Hare airport in Chicago so I went to a bookstore and browsed, ran into Robin and Johanna, then I realized I didn't know when my flight was, so I left and went to find my flight. Then I woke up. What an incredibly boring dream. Later I remembered a part where I had visa problems and they didn't want to let me into Chicago (what? Visa for Chicago?), which made it only marginally more interesting....
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posted by srah on March 6, 2004 9:54 AM
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My favorite part of my dream last night was when it was raining and the dog had wet feet, so he put Señorita C's slippers on when he came into the house. I also enjoyed seeing all of the white skyscrapers of Nice, which are covered in cartoon characters....
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posted by srah on February 26, 2004 10:09 AM
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Amanda and I woke up this morning because Cari was screaming in her sleep, followed by little whimpering moans. She can't remember what she was dreaming about, but she remembers she was still afraid when she woke up. I think there must be something in the water*, because I had the earthquake thing, Amanda dreamt we had to drive back down to DC from Ann Arbor and didn't leave until 4pm, and I had some more strange ones last night. I was hanging out with one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I think we may have been...
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posted by srah on February 8, 2004 10:50 AM
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I think I dreamt last night that there was a new reality show with two members of ABBA teaching in a high school and causing all kinds of hijinks with very heavy, faked Swedish accents. I hope I dreamt that....
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posted by srah on January 19, 2004 10:11 AM
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I had a dream where my mom, my sister and I went out to dinner. Mr B------ had a second job bartending at this restaurant, but he didn't see us when we came in. I ordered a Coke with lemon and lime slices in the hopes that he would recognize my drink order and realize I was there. Unfortunately, our waiter filled our drink orders himself. This restaurant had a floating appetizer buffet. All of the tables in the restaurant were arranged around a pool in the center that had a rotating current, like the duck pond game at carnivals....
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posted by srah on January 13, 2004 9:06 AM
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I dreamt I was shopping for a Christmas present for Keith, since the one I'd gotten him had fallen through. There was a lot of pressure to come up with a great gift immediately. Then I discovered that one of the shop assistants was the Urstodian's friend Lauren, so I just sat on the floor and talked to her instead of shopping. She tried to sell us stuff in the store, but none of it seemed like stuff Keith would like and she said the food was all way too old to be edible. Then I went to the ATM...
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posted by srah on January 9, 2004 3:58 PM
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I was on a road trip with my family, including my grandma. We got lost and were travelling down this dirt road, which turned out to be a dead end. We turned into this driveway to turn around, where there was a sign that said "Beware of Brownies". My family was speculating about whether this referred to the chocolate kind of brownies or the magical kind in Willow when this cow came rushing at us. Apparently "brownies" was slang for "cows" wherever we were, because this cow started chasing us. My dad put the pedal to the metal and just...
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posted by srah on January 5, 2004 11:44 PM
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Kathy Howe reminds me that I haven't blogged last night's dream... I was in some kind of science facility's locker room, bothering all of the scientists. I think I may have been stalking one of them and baked him cookies. I ran into Keith and Tiffany in the computer lab, where they were making a stop-action film about R2D2 using Legos. Keith begged me to make him crêpes. I told him I couldn't, because I didn't have any whipped cream. He made a face and informed me that he didn't want whipped cream - he wanted blueberries and "miced" onions....
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posted by srah on November 29, 2003 9:22 AM
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I dreamt that my User Interface Design class went on a field trip to the Amish reservation. It wasn't just an Amish community - they had been rounded up and forced to live in this place. When we arrived, the women were wearing heavy aprons and German WWI helmets and searching the hills for spent cartridges. They were actually dressed a bit more like Pilgrims than like Amish. They were eager to talk to us, and the one who talked to my group was MF, who I went to high school with. Apparently she had "gone Amish" soon after graduation....
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posted by srah on November 27, 2003 10:58 AM
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I don't remember the beginning of my dream very clearly, but there was a part that took place in a museum and I either had seen a movie of my life or my life was like Groundhog Day, but I knew that some prisoners on a field trip were going to escape, somehow blend in and get weapons, and go on a murderous rampage that would kill my family. So I spent the whole time trying to avoid this situation and getting déjà vu and trying to change things from the way I knew they had been before. I only...
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posted by srah on November 26, 2003 9:24 AM
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I dreamt last night that I flew back to France to be an assistant for the second semester, but I didn't prepare anything. I didn't wait for my paperwork to find out if I was accepted or where I was supposed to go to, I didn't tell my host family that I was coming, and I left my stupid cell phone back in the States....
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posted by srah on November 17, 2003 11:37 AM
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I dreamt last night that Robin and I were living in France. Every day we would go into this apartment building, lure this guy out onto his rickety balcony by making him think that his dog was out there, then the balcony would collapse and we could dance around his apartment. This happened over and over and over again every day, but we were always afraid it wouldn't work. After we left his apartment one day, we ran into my Humanities History teacher from high school, the one I run into every single time I go back to visit my...
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posted by srah on October 14, 2003 8:36 AM
Tags: alfie, construction, dream, grandma, mattresses, pants, peas, vultures
I was watching TV with my grandma and the rest of my family (I don't remember why, but it was significant that my grandma was there) and flipping uncontrollably through channels. Something about Jamaicans came up - a TV show or a reference or something. Then I was at Meijer with my sister and my high school nemesis and her mom. We were buying peas, but I was carrying everything in my arms for some reason and as we neared the checkout, I started dropping everything. I dropped two cans of peas and they broke, so I had to go...
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posted by srah on October 9, 2003 1:19 PM
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While we were studying last night, Mr B------- kept plying me with enormous glasses of water. When I remarked upon this, he said that he was trying to flush the evils out of me. The evils being washed out of me seem to be taking the form of insane Japanese-themed dreams, which is quite understandable, considering I a) just watched Lost in Translation b) spent the whole weekend watching this stupid video over and over again and c) watched Spirited Away last night (we certainly are a serious study group). So last night, the evils left my body/mind in the...
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posted by srah on August 18, 2003 5:04 PM
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I dreamt last night that my family was in a parking lot with a little crying Indian girl. My sister tried to cheer her up by showing the girl her teddy bear (my sister's, that is), Elizabeth. The little girl snatched Elizabeth and ran off with her, so the whole family had to chase her down. When we got to where she'd stopped, she was standing there with her mother, who spoke in speech bubbles written in some kind of Indian script. Only I could read it, so I had to translate for my family. She told my sister that...
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posted by srah on July 1, 2003 11:22 AM
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I dreamt last night that I was at Valéry Larbaud again, just for a visit. My visit coincided with the 1AHOTs' class, so I sat in. They were all surprised and embarrassed to see me there, and one told me that a student in another class hadn't signed my cahier de souvenirs and wanted to. The most impressive thing about the dream is that I only spoke English. Some people get excited when they speak a foreign language in their dreams; I get excited when I don't....
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posted by srah on June 13, 2003 8:59 AM
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I dreamt that I was in a parking structure, driving my old car, Roger. Alex was in the passenger seat, and I laughed at him because the attendant was on his side, so he had to pay. I hate paying parking attendants, then quickly trying to get myself together to drive under the bar. So Alex had to do it, but as soon as we'd left the attendant, we came to a barricade where some kind of agent asked me to shift my weight back and forth from one butt-cheek to the other. When I did it and the car...
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posted by srah on May 17, 2003 9:10 AM
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I dreamt I was out in a snowstorm, looking for my glasses. I found two other pairs of glasses on a snowbank and I didn't know if I should take them with me or let them be buried. It occurred to me that maybe the owners knew exactly where they had left their glasses and would miss them if I took them with me. It didn't occur to me that if I left them there, they would quickly be buried and never found again. Philippe was there, skiing away. He always seems to show up in my dreams that take...
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posted by srah on May 11, 2003 10:29 AM
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I dreamt last night that Robin and I were lurking around John Hannah's country home, trying to find things that belonged to him to quickly steal as souvenirs before he got home and caught us....
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posted by srah on April 23, 2003 5:50 AM
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Inspired by my post about the similarity between Vichy Sundays and Art Fair, my subconscious decided to supply me with an even better comparison: Football Saturdays. I was driving my car in Ann Arbor, but I was having trouble getting anywhere because pedestrians were taking over the whole street. "I've lived here... twenty-three years!" I exaggerated, as if that would impress them. It didn't. "Maybe you should get out more!" someone yelled back. I got free of the pedestrian hordes and continued along my way, but ended up at Michigan Stadium. I saw two of my students, Rémy and Eric,...
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posted by srah on April 21, 2003 3:32 AM
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I dreamt night-before-last that I was walking down the street and this guy en rollers with ski poles started harassing me and skating very tight circles around me. I got mad, tore the ski poles out of his hands, and pushed him off balance, so that he fell on the ground. He just smiled in a particularly evil way, then people started yelling at me. Why had I attacked this fine young man for no reason? His dad was upset because he would never play hockey again - but he hadn't even broken anything! They started demanding recompensation for his...
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posted by srah on April 17, 2003 9:43 AM
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I dreamt last night that I pinned one of my students down on the ground and tickled him. I won't identify him here, and that way all of my students can fantasize that they were the lucky victim....
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posted by srah on April 6, 2003 4:57 AM
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I dreamt last night that it was the last day of class and I ran out of things for my students to do, so they ran amok. Then the principal showed up and saw I had no control of the class. As if it couldn't get worse, one of my students then told me that she hated English and it was all because of me. I hope it goes better than that in real life....
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posted by srah on March 29, 2003 3:26 AM
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I was in the rue de Paris with Renata and Jennifer, just chatting, when a big mob came and turned down the rue Dacher. We gathered that they were up to no good - they were collecting urine in big jugs and I think they were planning on burning down the Hôtel du Cygne because they didn't like a woman who was staying there. They were milling about in the street, and we kept expecting the police to come, or at least for a passing police car to spot the mob. But they didn't, so I called the police, then...