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ksmith ([personal profile] ksmith) wrote2004-11-11 11:40 am

Thursday as Friday

Considering that I will be off tomorrow and participating in Windycon for part of the day, this is a Friday of the Mind.



Going through one of those stretches at the day job when you berate yourself for doing something Dumb. There is a lesson to be learned from the muddle however. Just wish it could have been learned on someone else's nickel.

Weird dream last night. All during the thing, I could sense myself as being both in the dream and watching it from the outside. Not quite lucid dreaming--I couldn't change course. I just knew what was going on.

Frex, I spent part of the dream with a guy I knew I would be marrying, even though Outside Me knew that I didn't know him very well and really should rethink the situation. I then spent part of the time discussing matters, including my current wish to retire in 4 years, with a person who in real life does not like me. So there I am, in my dream, wondering why I'm discussing life matters with someone I know doesn't like me. Why is she pretending to care? Why am I bothering?

Then came the part where I took one of my dogs for a walk through a field. Outside Me knew as we walked that ticks would be an issue--I wore shorts and it was mid-summer and I walked through knee-high grass, so you do the math. Sure enough, we stopped walking and I checked my legs. Sorry for the grossness, but I did have to engage in some pretty rapid tick removal. Quite a few of the little buggers were trying to take a bite.

I've pretty much forgotten what the dream was about otherwise. Images of those small drive-in eateries that are always going out of business, junked cars, and feeling abandoned and not quite sure what's going on. Not a nightmare, but we could do without a repeat visit to this particular location in Dreamland.

Windycon this weekend. Looking forward to it, and to seeing some folks I haven't met up with in a while.

ENDGAME wordcounts later. Not a lot of progress, but I think I have Chapter 3 worked out. Just need to fill in business--she shrugged/he stared out at the horizon, etc...--and then that will be first drafted. Wading upstream in a river of treacle, that's what this is.

Dreams

[identity profile] leemc85615.livejournal.com 2004-11-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh how I know what a trip dreams can be, especially when there's high anxiety at work. Journalizing them can be helpful, though. My latest dream journal consisted of all the architecture in the dreams. Seems I went through a period of being an architect in my dreams. Some interesting concepts came out of that period.

Was maybe the "author" observing her "characters" in the aforementioned dream? Is Jani contemplating marriage?

Re: Dreams

[identity profile] kristine-smith.livejournal.com 2004-11-12 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Jani contemplating marriage?

You know, I just can't see Jani getting married.