In New Jersey, I dream of snow

[vovat]

Just a few observations of the morning, the last one much longer than the others. Hey, kind of like when Bill Maher does "New Rules," huh?

1. One of my most recent spam subject lines: "Lindsay Lohan drops bikini bottom." Gee, I sure hope SpongeBob wasn't hurt! :P

2. It's annoying to have to keep removing "the" from band names when I put them on my MP3 player, but otherwise it doesn't alphabetize them properly.

3. Build-A-Bear now has a "USA Spirit Teddy," for those of you whose patriotism is so strong that it must spread even to your stuffed animals. Actually, I think it's supposed to be related to the Olympics, but still.

4. I heard last night that there are rumors that Barack Obama's middle name is not actually "Hussein," but rather "Mohmammed" (possibly because none of the people likely to be swayed by this fact can remember Saddam anymore). I just wonder why they're focusing all of this name-related attention on Obama, and not on his opponent, John Hitler McCain. (Okay, that's not really true. His real name is John Wayne Gacy McCain.)

5. With the heatwave going on outside, why did my dreams last night involve a snowstorm? There was apparently supposed to be a big snow, so my family (which I think included both parents and some members of bethje's family) had to gather up everything and everyone important (including pets; I know Dewey was involved, and I think some of the cats as well) to take to my dad's apartment. I'm not sure why we would be better able to weather the storm there than anywhere else, but it was a pretty nice apartment, with two floors. When I first got to the building, I ended up getting off the elevator at the wrong floor, and getting really upset about it. Then, once inside, I complained a lot about the snow, and said I'd want to live somewhere without snow if it were possible. (Considering the weather we've been having in this area lately, I think that's actually only true if it were also a place that never got too hot.) I think I woke up not long after that, but the continued after I went back to sleep again. (Why does that only ever happen with crappy dreams?) This time, however, my car was in the shop, and I was back home without my computer. I told someone (possibly my brother) that I should go back to the apartment to get it, but that idea wasn't practical for some reason. The dream also involved going to school to get some assignments. That's about all of it that I remember, but I was insanely frustrated pretty much all the way through.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

Hm -- perhaps we can find pictures of McCain as a clown?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Maybe they forced him to dress as one when he was in the POW camp.

[revme.livejournal.com]

...forced?

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

Interestingly for TMBG fans:

John Sidney McCain

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, if McCain chooses a vice-presidential candidate named John, TMBG could revive their "John and John '04" T-shirt!

[travspence.livejournal.com]

Your dream reminded me of the Midnight Sun episode of the Twilight Zone.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Never saw that one, but from reading the description, I can see the similarity.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

(Why does that only ever happen with crappy dreams?)

Probably it's just easier to remember when they're crappy. This morning I managed to pick up a pretty good dream again-- though, for the record, it wasn't exactly picking up where I left off, more just continuing the basic themes, and even then it really wasn't so much good as in just a really interesting storyline, the kind that makes me get all excited like "Wow what a great idea for a book!" and then I wake up and realize it didn't actually make any sense... but anyway.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I remember a dream I had as a kid in which there was a whale living behind my house. I wanted to get back to it after waking up, but no dice.

And yeah, I frequently have the dreams that seem like good stories, but turn out not to make much sense. There are some dream elements that I'd still like to include in stories, though.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I first got into creative writing out of an effort to retell my dreams. I somehow actually made them work back then. Well, for the writing of a seven-year-old, which is probably why they no longer seem to work now.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I doubt your seven-year-old writing included as many exclamation points as mine did. {g}