| gila monster Simon, 27; an occasional mechanical engineer, San Diego, CA date of dream: Thursday, June19, 2003 On my way to work in the Honda, I forget to bring my surfboards (will be surfing after work) and drive back to the house. On the way back I heard a new alarm that indicates my brakes have a problem, but I'm not too concerned since I had new brakes in just last month. I back up to the chain link gate as the thuggish neighbor comes in and out of his yard. I get into the house and it's my mom's place. There are a few messages for me on the machine and a big pile of stuff of mine that I am to go through since she is cleaning out the garage. Bad news... it is hard for me to get rid of any of it and I salvage most of it from the path to destroyal. Mom and Larry are planning a trip... first to Michigan for a week, including a weekend of camping, and then to Hawaii for a week. Will I feed the cat while she's out? I then get to Cubic and rather than walk right upstairs to my office I decide to spend some time downstairs at my desk, sorting out papers. It feels good to clean up and get rid of the clutter. I place some drawings on my desk casually so that if anyone comes by that desk it will look as though I had been working on something detailes. I will be going upstairs to do some real work soon enough. I see Caitlyn and Amber at their jobs. C has an interesting enough pharmacy job but it appears A hasn't lined anything good up yet. Her job is repetitive and boring. Bummer. I don't get upstairs to the computer until 10:30. Eventually I leave work to go to my afternoon class. It is one leftover cheesy easy junior high math class I found out I had to take to get my engineering degree. It's even at the junior high. THAT is going to be weird. They'll certainly notice my age, what with my beard and all. I Also realise how much it is going to suck to be treated like a kid again, with rules and discipline. I get to the junior high and somehow find my way inside the prison-ish fence. Two little kids (my god, what am I getting into?) directly me to my classroom, which is in the trailers on the other side of campus. I run and run to get there before the bell. The front side of the school is deserted but as I get deeper I come across many students setting up for a fair of sorts. A guy and a girl serving "Hottie Smoothies". Others recruiting for the rowing club. Various types of shopping. One babyfaced kid rides his bike up along next to me and I grab his sleeve for a boost. The kid nervously directs me to my classroom and when I let go he almost eats it. As I run through the Stimulus Fair I start to wake up. But I really want to stay in the dream in order to see what the classroom is like and if I make it there on time so I cling to the images and consciously try to stay in the dream, despite the sound of pat putting around in the bathroom dragging me back into the waking world. But it works to some degree, and a series of images flashes across my vision. Some are related to the fair, but most are totally random as my mind lost its association with that school dream. The only one I can remember is the thick gear with "GILA MONSTER" printed on its center. |