weirdness.

I was at the beach with my family and a few friends from India (Raj, Joel and I think Dana were all there)...giant waves were occasionally crashing way too high into our building and way too far inland, but no one evacuated! We just kept thinking, "Oh! Now *that* was a big one!" and then we'd think it was over!!! So, even after a few of these moster waves crashed inside our room on the 3rd floor, we all went down to the pool area, where there was some kind of awning set up for a talent show. We sat down at a picnic table and were eating graduation-party style food...on styrofoam plates with plastic utensils nonetheless...when the 'show' began. After a little while, I realized that my family and friends had ALL left! They apparently went further inland and left me at the hotel! I was terrified, so I hurried up and finished eating, then began gathering up my empty plate/cup/plasticware so that I could throw them in a trash can before getting the heck out of the hotel. As I was doing this, a man who was severely overdressed for the beach (he was wearing a long beige trenchcoat and a plaid fuzzy hat and looked like a reporter/grandpa) noticed that I was about to leave and purposefully blocked my way! I was angry and desperate. I yelled at him to get out of my way. He refused and told me that he didn't want me getting up in the middle of the show and walking in front of him with all my trash, as this would block his view of his daugher who was in the show--and he wanted to take pictures. I shoved him. While all of this was happening, another giant wave had come and crashed on all of us, but no one moved. We were all irritated at how wet our food got. Especially my celery sticks which were still on my plate. I woke up very angry.

this dream was pretty intense. first, i was at a hotel for christmas and i got up early to help megan make breakfast for all the guests. pat van horn ate all the eggs we made and we were mad.

then, i was on the southside, but it was actually some huge european metropolis. amy mcghee and i were in an elevator and the floor somehow became unattatched to the walls so we were trying to stay balanced on the floor which only attached to the rest of the elevator by a rope attatched to the ceiling. i got out when the doors opened but amy fell down into the shaft. i was screaming for someone to help us, but no one would. i told everyone to not operate the elevator or she would be squashed, but again, everyone ignored me. the next morning, i came back and rescued her. somehow she was totally fine (besides being obviously a bit shaken up).

somewhere in all of that, my dream turned into a batman adventure. i was helping batman and we were captured by all of the batman villains. they locked us in this room at my church, but we tricked them all, including the joker, into letting us go and telling us their plan, by telling them that this was just an episode of the animated series, not real life.

the batman part faded away and i was helping out with the kids at my church. except i didn't want to be there, so i was just letting them run amok while i read by myself in a room. for a snack, they were trying out some of coke's new test products, including apple cider dr. pepper. it wasn't bad, but it was some part of the batman villain's plan. we went on a field trip to australia and the beach was terrifying. there were hundreds of huge beach spiders and water snakes that talked and i spent the whole time trying not to step on them. a plane flew overhead which was involved in the villains/coke masterplan, but i didn't care anymore. i just wanted to find a place to sleep.

two nights ago we murdered this girl by wrapping her up in a stick of chewing gum. we proceeded to mutilate her body.
we found her months later on a wood pile. her head and lower half were totally intact, but her ribs were clean and wrapped in this weird plastic. the twist of the dream was someone/thing put this plastic on her ribs while she was still alive. it felt like the part in seven went they find the photos of sloth.... i felt dirty and unrested when i woke.

last night i was going to the prom with my friend keith. i changed dresses like 4 times 5 minutes before leaving and took a razor with me to shave my legs on the way. it was all rushed. i was still grossly under dressed. after prom was spent in a dump/abandoned building with megan and josh sickles?

i was shopping in a huge grocery store and this big mexican mafia guy was after me. his kids were making burritos at the make-your-own burrito station. i was trying to hide from all of them so i was weaving in and out of the aisles and ducking behind displays. i made a run for it to the bathroom. it was huge, with doors leading to more and more stalls. at the end of it all, i ran out a door into the forest, where i then decided to finally called 911. they were very unhelpful, but i found some grocery store security gaurds who somehow rounded up a whole ring of these mafia guys. they tried to escape on a boat in a lake, but the lake was small and the security gaurds just had to wait on the shore for them to come back, which was only about five minutes.

i went to this giant taco bell with another girl, possibley teresa, and i couldn't get anyone to take my order (wonder what could have inspired that!) so we just kept walking around, circling the building from the inside (it was set up so you could do that). then i was making toast with this guy jason beck that i used to work with and we were talking about our friend jeff o, and how he was awkward with girls. jason was very cocky as always.
overarching all of this was the story of sleeping beauty.

i was at emily and beth's house - they lived together - and Nico was there too. emily was showing me a fine piece of art when Nico ran up, and ever so purposefully, put his paw directly in the middle of the painting. he then proceeded to scratch it all up, while giving us the "i know what i'm doing but i don't care" look. emily then proclaimed that Nico had "razars". from what i gather it is a temporary affliction of a bad temperment for cats that i just made up in my dream world. either way i was instructed "not to go near his face -- he'll attack at anything when he's like this." i was terrified and backed away and almost fell over beth who was sitting on the floor kniting. Nico was moving near me and i was asking beth or em to help, because "he had that funny look in his eye" and he was coming right for me. but in dream world i couldn't really move/talk. and then Nico jump right up claws/jaws a-blazin' and attacked my right arm. i was helpless.

[james said that he could tell i was having a bad dream when i woke up. i was moving my arm in little jerks, trying to get away from a bad Nicocat. ]

i was at a movie theater in a town that was a cross between berkeley and squirrel hill (cute but a bit more sprawling than squirrel hill) and my friend carmen was working at the ticket counter. i woke up missing her terribly.
also, my dad was changing tires but he wouldn't change mine for me. bekah belframan and i overflowed a toilet onto joel's huge new car and the paint started to come off.

i was visiting california and went out by myself for the afternoon because everyone was watching a steelers post-season game. i was in the city (i think we were in l.a.), but found some cliffs and decided to scale them. halfway up i quit and went swimming instead in the water that had collected in the rocks below. i found one pool that was incredibly salty which stung my eyes.

also: jana and jamie (two friends from california) told me that i really should take a personality test to help me decide what career to pursue. josh kauffman-horner had the test, but he wouldn't let me take it, or even talk to me, so we all went swimming instead.

esther and little cat were having a puppy? then esther died and birds and lizards were everywhere. I climbed a tree in my yard, found like 20 birds nests, eggs-both hatched and unhatched-, and was scared of snakes.

"I like your makeup!"

A friend (possibly Emily?) told me they "liked my eye shadow". I wasn't wearing any and told them so. They were suprised to learn that it was only dark circles *above* my eyes, and not beneath. It made me feel weird that they (the above-my-eyes circles) were so noticeable.

B. Moss lady who hates the world had her septum pierced. She was glad she could adopt children because that meant she could wear wooden jewelry in it. I don't know.

Last night I was at the airport with Megan. We were going to Mexico for a church missions trip. I forgot my passport and all my luggage at home. We had to find Mia's car and drive back to my house in 20 minutes. Mike Krepinevich said he'd wait for us.

i was trying to get a job with an afterschool program working with inner city kids (which i actually am trying to do) and i had an audition of sorts to see how i would work out. i liked the kids but there was a program that i would also have to help run for insects that were half bee/half spider. we called them bees and they made webs all the time. i wasn't sure if i could handle working with them and felt i had been misled.

joel, beth, and some other folks went out to new zealand to participate in a live action lord of the rings. there weren't any of the characters from the original story, just some evil king and queen, some other minor characters and a giant. the giant was terrifying, but we managed to defeat it and the king and queen. this all took place in the upstairs of a house. i think we actaully killed the giant. we had to use all of our strength to do it, and felt very accomplished when we at last had defeated him. once that was done we headed for the airport. we stopped at a shopping plaza and some guy in a truck tried to sell me the new zealand coldplay cd. i didn't want it and he became very irate with me. we continued on to the airport, happy and excited to come back to new zealand some day soon.

I think this is a dream, but correct me if I'm wrong: every time I have to wake up in the morning for an appointment (not so much work, really) I 'dream' I changed the time on my alarm... This usually results in my waking up every hour or so to make sure the time is correct (but I'm never really sure what time it should be or is...). Hence why I'm a tired mess right about now.

It was all about plants and moving every plant in my house into my bedroom.
I created a fortress of plant solitude....