tales from an ordinary world
2000-12-24
Dream: it was high school, and we were in class, but instead of being in a classroom, it was outside, and there was scaffolding around, with one piece of wood (or something) sticking out above the "classroom". I was sitting on some kind of swing that hung from this piece of wood, and so as the class went on, I just sat there and circled around a bit, at one stage only barely missing the teacher, but he didn't seem to mind - just ducking and going on teaching. Later, I was elsewhere (perhaps half-awake ?), and wondered exactly how I managed to carry my books and such without dropping anything, as I climbed along the pole and down into the swing for each class.
Dream: i was in a museum (?), and sitting on white blocks of laminated wood (the same way they usually present works of art in a museum) in various rooms were PC's from my current job, one per block - just the system unit, no monitor, keyboard, or whatever. There was a familiar Post-It Note on each PC, saying things like "Boyd's PC" (Boyd being one of our recently arrived programmers at work). However, there were also a pair of keys on each PC next to the Post-It Notes. Each pair of keys was on a ring just like the ones on my detachable keyring (a round thing where you can take off each of the 3 or 4 separate rings). Eventually, I figured it might be a good idea to go and collect these detachable keyrings (but leave the keys behind), and so I wandered around finding all the PC's I'd seen before, and collected the keyrings. Then I found myself in a bookshop, looking for one or two books - one by Richard Ford ? but I couldn't find it. I remember picking up one book that looked just like a paperback version of 's All Tomorrow's Parties I'd seen somewhere, except it was a completely different book. I made it to the counter, with some books I don't remember picking up. Apparently the bookshop was part of Monash University, but I'm not sure how or why.
