I'm now having stress dreams about work, and I don't even have a job. Here's the completely weird one I had last night:
I had been appointed by Bush to the Supreme Court, but only for a 10-year term instead of a life appointment. He only put me in as a token liberal so that he could put in a radical right-winger for a lifetime appointment in another seat. I was a bit concerned that justices don't make public statements and I'd have to hold my tongue and not speak my opinions.
I headed to the dorms where the Supreme Court justices live (because we all know they live in dorms) and on the way I somehow got caught in the middle of a gang war. There was an asian gang that was coming after me because I had somehow wronged them or caused them pain. One guy threw a knife at me that cut my stomach a bit and said I deserved it.
I managed to get away long enough to make it into the dorm where I went to find my room. One of the other justices was an alderman from Somerville, and there were other local political people there as well. The dorm had three floors and my room was one of two on the bottom level. As I went down to unpack my stuff, the asian gang started breaking into the building. There were quite a lot of them, so I and the rest of the people there started running. We climbed out a window onto the yard, thinking that the gang only wanted to take over the building. But they kept coming after us. I ran uphill towards the fence but had a hard time climbing over because the fence was higher than I realized and my arms were sore from going to the gym (I'm not making this up). One of the gang members caught me and then I was hooked up to some brainwashing device so that I would forget all of this and be complacent. I struggled but in the end they won. That's about when I woke up.
So what's it all mean? I think I need a vacation.
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OK, I completely understand. I think the stress of not having a job and looking for one is what caused this dream. I have been having really weird ones myself lately. Like, being at the Addams Family house for Christmas and all of my familly was there, but sitting in pews like a church, then all of my teeth fell out. There was more, but that's all I remember. WEIRD. I think your's wins the prize for oddest dream. It certainly is the best one I've heard in a while. Maybe you should try meditating to relieve stress :)
Posted by: Danielle | January 12, 2006 01:10 PM
私達を傷つける為の酷評しなさい!
Posted by: "Asian Gang Member" | January 12, 2006 10:13 PM
According to babelfish, that translates as "In order to damage us severely criticize!" from Japanese.
Is that like "sticks and stones may break our bones"?
(For the record, I was just transcribing my dream. I have no biases against asian people, though I do oppose violent gangs on principle.)
Posted by: Daniel | January 13, 2006 11:44 AM
Actually I had typed in "You Anger us!" but apparently it didn't come out right.
Posted by: J | January 13, 2006 04:27 PM
And I'm supposed to believe this coming from a guy who used to hand me bowls of rice with chopsticks in them while saying that it was the Yakuza equivalent of a fish wrapped in newspaper?
I don't think so...
Posted by: Daniel | January 13, 2006 06:21 PM