Dream a little dream
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vanillafluffyTo begin with, my shoulders have been giving me heck the last couple days. Thursday night was bad enough that I popped a muscle relaxer (running low and no refill so I'm trying to be thrifty with them)...that left me loggy enough that I took a five-hour afternoon nap---and still managed to sleep last night for the usual hours. Had a series of dreams the last hour or so, not that they took anything like that long.
I was walking down Dixon---don't know why (car trouble? exercise?)---when BC and Daughter drove past in his previous station wagon, not the current one and offered me a ride, which I turned down. After they drove off, Mrs. BC hailed me. She was sitting there reading a book, and there was a bookstore behind her. This was at a new and improved version of Pineridge, which has never been much of a plaza for books, new or used.
I went into the bookstore and wandered around---the place also had New Age tchotchkes---and somehow wound up hired to enter info into a database for some rich collectors. Oddly, it was the two doctors from Nip/Tuck, which isn't a show I'm a fan of, although the Misha ep was highly amusing. They lived together, and I was working at their residence...there was a scene with them showering---separate showers, and me trying not to be too obvious about looking.
One of the docs took off---the one I think of as the Wilson-type--- and I was trying to work on the database. I was supposed to be entering the serial numbers from the packaging of the still-sealed collectables, some kind of action figures, but the database shifted on me and I realized I'd erased half the info for Krull and was overwriting it with Conan...the other doc, the one who was Dr Doom in the Fantastic Four movies paused in his breakfast to help me. He must have been on a low-carb diet, because his plate was heaped with meat and more meat.
From there, I found myself back at St John's (which I attended K-8th grade)...I had almost a half-hour left of lunch, and was trying to get some people together for a game, something like Trivial Pursuit. My schooltime BFF went into the girls' restroom, while I was looking around and wondered it the library was still down the hall. Went in there, and yes it was, but the layout had changed, there was an area with two librarians you had to go through to get to the books. One of the librarians recognized me, was also class of '74 (Monica), and wanted to know what I'd been doing since then. I started telling her, trying to moderate my language and substitute 'heck' for 'hell'.
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Used bookstores...there used to be a bunch of them, but these days, I can only think of one in the whole area (aside from book sections at thrift stores, which isn't the same), and the one that's left is horribly disorganized and doesn't take plastic. And I miss them! I can think of so many that have closed over the years: Kish's, Thorn's, Mary Dee's, the Armchair Adventurer, the Book Worm, the Book Xchange and a bunch of others whose names I can't recall.
SyFy ran Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer last weekend, and I had it on in the background. I suppose that's what prompted Dr Whatsisname to show up. I think even my subconscious is trying to get me a job---and working for a couple of hot guys who play with toys sounds like fun.
Things have changed a lot since I was in school. BC and I were chatting with about that recently: We gradulated in the same class, and his daughter currently attends the same school---except these days, the students don't have lockers and the campus is surrounded by six-foot fencing and gates. In our day, not only were there lockers, there was an open campus, so if you forgot something, you could go back at any time and get it.
Sometimes, it's hard to believe that I'm old enough to have kids that age, and I know classmates who are grandparents, which floors me. Yes, my high school graduation was 31 years ago next month, but...man, it's true: Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
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I was walking down Dixon---don't know why (car trouble? exercise?)---when BC and Daughter drove past in his previous station wagon, not the current one and offered me a ride, which I turned down. After they drove off, Mrs. BC hailed me. She was sitting there reading a book, and there was a bookstore behind her. This was at a new and improved version of Pineridge, which has never been much of a plaza for books, new or used.
I went into the bookstore and wandered around---the place also had New Age tchotchkes---and somehow wound up hired to enter info into a database for some rich collectors. Oddly, it was the two doctors from Nip/Tuck, which isn't a show I'm a fan of, although the Misha ep was highly amusing. They lived together, and I was working at their residence...there was a scene with them showering---separate showers, and me trying not to be too obvious about looking.
One of the docs took off---the one I think of as the Wilson-type--- and I was trying to work on the database. I was supposed to be entering the serial numbers from the packaging of the still-sealed collectables, some kind of action figures, but the database shifted on me and I realized I'd erased half the info for Krull and was overwriting it with Conan...the other doc, the one who was Dr Doom in the Fantastic Four movies paused in his breakfast to help me. He must have been on a low-carb diet, because his plate was heaped with meat and more meat.
From there, I found myself back at St John's (which I attended K-8th grade)...I had almost a half-hour left of lunch, and was trying to get some people together for a game, something like Trivial Pursuit. My schooltime BFF went into the girls' restroom, while I was looking around and wondered it the library was still down the hall. Went in there, and yes it was, but the layout had changed, there was an area with two librarians you had to go through to get to the books. One of the librarians recognized me, was also class of '74 (Monica), and wanted to know what I'd been doing since then. I started telling her, trying to moderate my language and substitute 'heck' for 'hell'.
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Used bookstores...there used to be a bunch of them, but these days, I can only think of one in the whole area (aside from book sections at thrift stores, which isn't the same), and the one that's left is horribly disorganized and doesn't take plastic. And I miss them! I can think of so many that have closed over the years: Kish's, Thorn's, Mary Dee's, the Armchair Adventurer, the Book Worm, the Book Xchange and a bunch of others whose names I can't recall.
SyFy ran Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer last weekend, and I had it on in the background. I suppose that's what prompted Dr Whatsisname to show up. I think even my subconscious is trying to get me a job---and working for a couple of hot guys who play with toys sounds like fun.
Things have changed a lot since I was in school. BC and I were chatting with about that recently: We gradulated in the same class, and his daughter currently attends the same school---except these days, the students don't have lockers and the campus is surrounded by six-foot fencing and gates. In our day, not only were there lockers, there was an open campus, so if you forgot something, you could go back at any time and get it.
Sometimes, it's hard to believe that I'm old enough to have kids that age, and I know classmates who are grandparents, which floors me. Yes, my high school graduation was 31 years ago next month, but...man, it's true: Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
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Date: 2010-04-03 04:45 pm (UTC)The last dream I remember was a couple of days ago, in which I got a new kitten, a gorgeous little gray marmalade tabby, and he was so sweet and friendly. We named him Jed, for some unknown reason, and I brought him home and told Zippy that was how cats were supposed to act. :D
Oh, did you get my e-mail about the wireless stuff?
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Date: 2010-04-03 06:55 pm (UTC)Jed-kitten sounds darling---I can just imagine Zippy giving you and him the Evil Eye.
And speaking of high school, as detailed in my subsequent post, I just got ahold of a yearbook for my senior year. And what's really spooky is the fact that the original owner is also---well, if I tell you I'm Fluffy and her name is Fluffi, you can see why I could almost pretend it was my yearbook all along.
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Date: 2010-04-03 07:03 pm (UTC)No, there wasn't a reply. Sometimes the Gods of the Internet require a fresh sacrifice, so they must have eaten it. :) I'm happy to find this stuff a good home so it stops falling on my head whenever I'm in the closet trying to wrestle the vacuum cleaner loose.
Zippy had a king-size hissy fit the night we babysat my friend Raine's new Bengal kitten, and the baby wasn't even in the house for most of it. We put him in the dog crate in the garage, but Zippy walked around with his back up and his patented I WILL KILL YOU ALL look on for an entire day. I'd love to have another cat, but the house really isn't big enough to accommodate another litter box. :)
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Date: 2010-04-03 05:25 pm (UTC)My dreams have been so strange lately that I don't know what to make of them--they involve people I haven't seen in 30+ years, too. Amazing what the brain does when we are asleep.
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Date: 2010-04-03 07:01 pm (UTC)Particularly that end of Dixon, because there's those Section 8 apartments right there, and all the riff-raff from the 800 apartments and that other complex on the other side of Dixon.
Pine Ridge Shopping Ctr used to be a good place
Oh yeah---remember when Christy's Pizza was there, right next to the Pines? The Pines theater was cool before and after its drafthouse days. After it closed down, I had dreams of winning the lottery and buying it and turning it into an art-house theater that would show indie films and the kind of obscure stuff we hardly ever get around here. And then they went and converted it, wah! What a loss!
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Date: 2010-04-03 10:45 pm (UTC)I never missed an episode of Nip/Tuck. The Wilson-type is Sean McNamara (played by Dylan Walsh). Doctor Doom is Christian Troy, played by Aussie Julian McMahon. The show just ended after 6 seasons. Helluva ride.
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Date: 2010-04-03 11:39 pm (UTC)My dreams keep me entertained, and my f'list, too!
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Date: 2010-04-04 01:05 am (UTC)