Tuesday Morning, 12.31.02: I woke up early to get to school but somehow the time went by quickly and I had to call my dad to get a ride. My only final that day was geography, so I wasn't rushing. I called my dad's line and the same black lady answered [12.29] ("oh so I guess it wasn't a dream afterall") and I just asked her to call me whenever her number got changed and said I'd stop calling her. She was realy nice about everything but I was worried I wouldn't get to school in time to take the final. When I got to class j-crew made a parody of my Joshiepoo page, except whereas mine had 4 links which were translated into Italaian (altavista) before the 4 english links, theirs was just the opposite.
Monday Morning, 12.30.02: The Art of Making a Horror Movie: Bart Simpson skateboards to the eerie high school and night. Goes in, jumps off the roof; flying in the air. [Shot of the parked stationwagon in Washingtom or Oregon] Then I'm in the bathrooms and they're pretty nice, but packed for some reason. Music: Abba - Chiquitita
Sunday Night, 12.29.02: I tried calling my Dad the 2nd time and got the same black lady answering the phone. This time i straightened things out with her because she said her apartment owner had the number changed when the 1st lady moved out. I told my mom I would just walk to my dad's and she shook her finger no, but I left anyway. On the way back I saw the abandoned apts were opened and 1 of the rooms was an economics classroom. The lights were on and the class was empty. February dates were written on the easel and Tia and Tamara were pretty excited to start class Music: [dream tune]
Sunday Morning, 12.29.02: My aunt picked me up from school and she still had her Pathfinder. I told her about my parking spot at school and how it was actually better than the parking lot because it was easier to get to. Someone in a blue striped van (it might have been Wylie) was parking in our spot in my townhomes, so we just parked next to him. I told her I had a gift for her, and when we got inside I ran to my room to get it. (It wasn't wrapped.) Downstairs I saw Peter in my kitchen and said hi and when Tia Blanca opened the gift it was a Disney Christmas CD with Ariel and some fat Disney character guy on the cover. She tried to look like she liked the gift and soon it struck me that it wasn't what I bought her. I reminded her of the shape of the box I gave her and we found it on the floor by the sofa. We never did figure out where the Disney cd came from
- The irrigation tunnels and pathways were being complete and the water flowed through them perfectly Music: Ricky Martin - She Bangs (intro music)
Saturday Morning, 12.28.02: Kristan and I had gone to the school to see if the kid would really jump off the roof. There was already a crowd gathered at the bottom, so we just walked around. We were about to sit down when Kristan's friend Alex came and hugged me. "Puzzle?: where have you been?"; "oh we're just waiting for this kid to jump off the roof (laughs).... I guess I shouldn't say that, it's pretty terrible" She left and we saw Jason sitting on the sidewalk alone, so Kristan and I sat near him but we didn't say hi to him. He had gotten a slight tan and Kristan was talking about something when I said "wait what about Harry? [Kristan makes face] ...oh." Then Jason got up and hugged his girlfriend, a short chinese girl. We went into the church and asked where we could get a good view of the kid. The lady told us far in the back, so we went there but couldn't see anything. Eventually we got back to Houston by the charter bus, but after turning on the TV I saw that Ms. Linsley had some of the class go to Miami with her. They were on the screen playing indoor volleyball
- I looked at the 5 choices for prizes and decided if I won I would choose the trip to LA. I called the airlines and practically begged them for a free trip (actually I just asked to not pay for gas) by suggesting these things we would do like sit in the very back, and much to my surprise they said yes. So my mom and I boarded and had to sit in different rows. Audrey (our 70 year old English neighbor) was sitting diagonal from me and the flight attendants were selling things on a tray. Some of us ate part of a soft garlic preztel, my mom paid $1 for her Mr. Pibb and I wanted milk but never got any. Some lady (or man, but I'm pretty sure it was a lady) asked if anyone was hungry, I just mentioned the milk, and she offered us all peanut butter girlscout cookies (this year the package was plastic.) I finally got one and some guy who was in my geography class who was in his late 50s handed out a packet of worksheets for people to read about the court systems and something else I didn't get a chance to look at. I wanted to ask if he got an A in Ms. Linsley's class but I figured he had because Ms. Linsley wouldn't give a B to the only old guy in the class. Music: Smashing Pumpkins - 33
Friday Morning, 12.27.02: My mom was getting remarried, and I didn't really like the guy until he got his boat out and we jumped down into it from wherever we were sitting. Music: Kabah - Te necesito
Wednesday Morning, 12.25.02: I was wearing my x-box, it was really just a Virtual Reality headset, but it was fun. We were in a target in Seattle, but in the game I was on a street corner. I wanted to go inside the Arab store, but it wouldn't let me, so I passed by the frozen section and saw a mango. In target my mom kept looking at jackets for me, I was too into the game to really pay much attention. Music: ? - ? Dame da dame d�mela/ dame tu presencia/ yo te har� el amor en el coche
Tuesday Morning, 12.24.02: I heard tony's voice from upstairs so I knew he was back again. We had 4 cats, all of them were in heat, so I was pretty happy when I saw we had a pet dolphin. He talked to me for a little while and then offered me a ride on his back through our dining room. When I went upstairs I saw he had dried up and was tiny, but I think he was just sleeping. Michael said she wanted to spend the night, but I told her I didn't think it was such a good idea with the 4 cats in heat. Music: Juanes - Es por ti
Sunday Morning, 12.22.02 : My cousin Zach was running away from home at night in a costume. I had just been calling him "turtle" because I didn't know who he was, and I was on my way home. We were by the freeway they're building and I told him he should go home, and by the barbeque place there was a mansion where an old lady lived, somehow I knew that was his home. He ran across the street and almost got run over
- After coming from the movies, I was in a hotel room (or dorm room) with Natalie from The Facts of Life. Then the flood came and soaked the carpets a little; I was surprised because we were on the 2nd or 3rd floor. I sat on the couch while the maid came in and I shouldave been packing.
Saturday Morning, 12.21.02: Ms. Len was subbing and opened a children's book. She asked me how to say "little tree" and I thought she meant in Arabic, but apparently she meant in Spanish because Julie answered her "peleaito"; "no.... (waking up) arbolito" Music: Everything But the Girl - Five Fathoms
Thursday Morning, 12.19.02: My mom and I split up in a chinese flea market and I told her I'd meet up with her later. I went through all the aisles and didn't really see that much, most of it was fruits and stuff. I went back to the indoor section and looked for her Music: OV7 - Volver�
Wednesday Morning, 12.18.02: I came to the busstop at dawn. It was by the freeway and Roman was waiting there. I think he mustave offered to give me a ride, because later I was in the passengerside while we drove by where he worked. He said it was a computer shop, but we went inside and it was blockbusters/a cafe/lounge. Some friend of his told me he dropped out of school and was working 19 hours a day, and making pretty good money. I mentioned this to my dad as we were exiting the freeway: "No you need to go to school"; "I am going to school!"
Tuesday Morning, 12.17.02: All of us were sitting on this wooden deck on the second floor; the weather was perfect. Angie and Debra started rapping and I was amused by it. Then we went inside, it was someone's birthday, the lights were dim and the carpet was copper-colored.
Music: (maybe) Emanuel Ortega - Adonde te vas
Sunday Morning, 12.15.02: These robbers came in so I hid in the shower and was changing from my surgeon's clothes into a really tiny white shirt that looked like it belonged to a stuffed animal.
- We were looking for the Amigos school bus, which had been by a big oak tree on the prarie where we were standing. I went into a gas station/used cd shop and saw a lot of CDs from a one-hit-wonder whose only popular song was one that bashed the Spice Girls. I hated the band, but their light blue cd cover was kind of pretty. I was really happy to see some Mel B import CDs. Apparently they were the same maxi-single, but from 2 different countries, and 1 had 2 extra remixes on it. Then I saw on TV a performance from some unknown band who somehow got Freddy Mercury to sing a song for them. It was only Freddy and the guitarist, who had a 12 string guitar Music: Dream band f. Freddy Mercury - [dream song]
Saturday Morning, 12.14.02: "The t-buildings?" It was dark and stormy as I walked to Ms. Saqer's window where she made funny faces at me. Then I had to go, up the stairs, and in Ms. Sperotto's room to see how she was doing. She had written Val's screenname on the board, and variations of her sn, and I asked why that was on there. She said she told her students that if they needed help they should ask Val (or angie or someone else). I laughed and mentioned that Val told me that all these people she didn't know where asking her for help with history. Ms. Sperotto became Ms. Williamson (4th grade teacher) at some point, and I left because I was late to calculus. I was still in Ms. Couvillon's class and Melissa sat in front of me in the small classroom. Luckily Ms. C didn't notice my coming in late, and I found some kid's transcript on my desk. I noticed he got a 38 in Nimrod, but a 432 in some other class like physics or something. I put it on his desk because he wanted to go to sleep, and I was having noticable trouble with 1 of 2 holepunchers. Something felt different throughout the course of the dream, I think I had money Music: Uff - Tarde o temprano
Thursday Morning, 12.12.02: It was a toy from the early 80s, and in pretty good shape, too. You had to take the wetnaps out of it before you turned it on, and I thought maybe it was a good idea to empty out the water. I walked to the top of the stairs; Sunlight was coming in through the patio window.
- We had to wait in line to get inside the school library (it mustave been another school) and someone told a few people that they were waiting in the wrong place, so the line got shorter.
- I was about to go in a small building. It was just a block or 2 away from the Amigos headquarters so I figured I'd just walk there. When I got in they had seperated us into teams; I had to wear the dark blue teamshirt. They were asking a few people at a time to go into a room and whne they came out they had a star-shaped sugar cookie and a star-shaped cherry jello jiggler. 2 Jewish guys and me and 2 Pakistanis were looking at each other, deciding if we should eat them or not. 1 Jewish guy motioned that he would because he didn't really care, the other looked surprised by this, and I motioned to a Paki guy that I wouldn't eat it and so the 2 Pakis decided they wouldn't either. Music: L�napop - Silvia stai dormendo
Wednesday Morning, 12.11.02: He found that wearing the monk's clothing turned him into a midget, but he didn't care and was still able to get married. They went to their friends' (a couple) den and she turned on the TV to watch porn but the little dwarf guy got mad and asked her to turn it off before she even found what channel it was.
- Kristan was sitting on my dad's couch and I told her about who I was planning on asking for recommendations. I mentioned Ms. Sperotto was backed up until about February and she said that was probably because everyone liked her. May Ann made a bowl of Macaroni for all of us to share, but it was pretty crispy so I passed. Kristan's mom ran inside the house with Go-go boots and a white fur jacket on, and started saying something with her Vietnamese acecnt. Kristan said that she used to do that all the time.
Kristan's mom is from Taiwan
Tuesday Morning, 12.10.02: Adrienne, Aaron (her little brother), my mom, and I were eating chicken on a bench in my dad's apartment's parking lot by the dumpster. Adrienne said her hair used to be lighter but the chicken turned it darker and I was picking at it because it had dried blood and cartilage in some parts. My mom said she peed on herself and something about "la tarruga" and when i awoke I realized I couldave been studying geography instead of dreaming about bullshit Music: Doug - Banging on a Trashcan/Think Big (medley)
Saturday Morning, 12.7.02: I was walking up (and later down) a dirt road in Seattle to get to my aunt's apartments, and under the coat rack I found a $60 bill. I was pretty happy, but upon getting to my aunt's I realized it could be hers and asked her about it as the shoe boxes by my bed decreased in number
Friday Morning, 12.6.02: After listening to the lyrics, I realized that the song was about saying no to drugs Music: [Dream rappers] - (I Come From the Bayou) I Come From the Bridge
- We were stranded on a boat and they were so young and had no idea of the severity of it all. I played along with the game they made up, partially blind, and found my way into a room where I somehow knew the key would be. Music: Bush - Swallowed
Thursday Morning, 12.5.02: Ms. Saqer wanted me to get a tardy slip, so I did, and I didn't argue, but then I realized I'd get 2 more days of SRC.
Tuesday Morning, 12.3.02: I ran through the halls while it was storming outside. When I got in the office I heard the minute bell, and ran through a conference room that my mom was in with her boss and Teresa. I didn't make it to the elevator when I heard the bell ring and layed on the floor, exhausted. "Is this your daughter?"
Sunday Morning, 12.1.02: Michael was having her birthday party in a hotel again, but it looked more like an old house than a hotel. I walked in and asked where I should go, and had a little trouble finding it. I saw Nick and then all these people showed up and eventually Michael did. Her pet white leopard came in through the door and someone asked why she had a lion. Michael said she was going to U of H and that she would study abroad in Germany.
In 5th grade, we were out in a temporary building discussing how we saved energy by moving out there. Then we were putting on a fashion show led by Adrienne. I thought she would ask me to be in it, but it turns out she just wanted me to hold people's jackets. Music: Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
I was walking by the library when I saw Ranjit. I went over by her locker to say hi to her and ask her what she was doing in school, but she didn't really want to talk to me.
- We had an assignment in the grocery store and Agnes and May Ann were some of my partners. I grabbed a bunch of grapes and told May Ann not to get too many oranges because I was going to buy some green apples. When I saw how much they were I told her to go ahead and get more oranges. Then we were looking at bananas and ice cream cones. We found some really perfect ice cream cones, and we were going to try to hide that from the other groups, so I put them in a plastic bag and then in another, darker plastic bag.
- Me, Michael, Leah Cohen, and maybe Shaun were sitting in a sauna that didn't work with all our clothes on. Michael said she asked some jews about Anwar from the Vietnam War and they knew like everything about her. I said that jews know a lot about the Vietnam War in general and then said, "problem solved; it was you! (pointing to Leah, she laughed a little).... now lets go" and we walked out of the sauna.
/ Elaine is haunted by her on-air alter ego and Kramer eats a steak. Music: Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
Saturday Morning, 11.30.02: Anabell and I had SRC, and we saw that George and Carlos were in there. They were almost done, but Carlos had fallen asleep on his desk and was waking up as I went in. He went in Ms. Cerda's office and asked her in Spanish if he could throw something away in the trashcan, but he didn't know the right word for trashcan for some reason and said "garbago." Ms. Cerda said "basura?" and he threw something away. I knew Ms. Cerda didn't really know spanish though.
Anabell and I were in the cafeteria during some awards ceremony. I was just happy we were missing SRC for that, but I figured I would have to make up the hours. Music: Blur- Song 2
Friday Morning, 11.29.02: Ms. Saqer was explaining to us the difference between affect and effect. Faisal helped by telling us that if it was going up like a tree then it was affect. "That one is going to the left"; "ohhhh" (I didn't get it in the dream either.)
- Amigos was having a meeting in San Antonio and they paid for our plane tickets. For some reason we decided to leave the house only an hour before the plane was leaving. They also sent us something in the mail, bugging us to send the 125 fundraising letters and there were blue stamps all over the sheet reminding us to finish our list.
- Kristan and Olivia were on their way to the cafeteria to say grace. Kristan reminded me to go and I said I'd be there later. Some guy borrowed 50 cents from me and told me to get it back from some girl selling candy. I gave her a 5 and she didn't give me the money, but gave me crunchy M&Ms instead. I said I didn't want them and she just ran away. I walked through the library and thought "why am I going to say grace? I'm not even Christian" and then I was chewing something and mustave broken my fast again. There were holiday Rice Krispie treats on sale in the library. Music: [dream song]
Thursday Morning, 11.28.02: I realized talking into my desklamp wasn't working, so I answered the phone downstairs, where the Sunlight was coming in through the patio door. She said she saw my headshot and wanted me to model, and that there were a lot of theatre offers. I wasn't interested, but gave her Kristan's name.
Music: Flamenco CD track 1
Wednesday Morning, 11.27.02: Someone else asked Jad to prom and I was like "nooo!"
- Nicholas got fatter
Tuesday Morning, 11.26.02: I broke my fast by drinking a lot of water
Music: Davy Jones - Girl (Brady Bunch Movie version)
My mom and I took a shuttle bus (Metro) to the Rodeo and we left a little early. When I was inside some girl sent me an IM asking about acne and thinking I was a different Aisha (Aisha Schroeder.) When we left we had trouble finding a bus to take us home, but we eventually got on one that was pretty empty
- I asked the busdriver if the stop went to a certain place and she said no, but I got on anyway. There weren't any empty seats, so I stood up, and we were driving through the ghetto. All these little black kids got off at a stop, and my Dad's cousin's son got off with them. His name was the same as my dad's cousin's, so we just called him Little Samier. Most the kids looked so sad standing outside in the cold by a fence, but some of them were kind of happy, and were making up a game to play. I figured I would make up a game if I were that age. Then Emilia's mom from So�adoras was arguing with the other white lady on the bus, and she said that the 5% didn't matter because she really cared about these people and Metro. It seemed really natural that she was speaking English.
Music: Robbie Williams - Angels (from Bugsy's profile)
Sunday Morning, 11.24.02: My mom pulled me out of school in Bugaboo's class because I wasn't feeling well, and then she offered to take me to a Chinese grocery store to buy some snacks. I said I wasn't really in the mood for those, but I got ready anyway because I felt like going somewhere. I was taking a while, but finally came outside to see her car parked against the wooden fence.
We got to school because I realized I had left my stuff in Linsley's room, and luckily I found her before she left for the day. She was a few feet away from her room and had already locked up, so I asked if she would open the room so I could get my stuff. She said no
- I called my dad from a hospital waiting room. He was in Chicago and his sister was giving birth, but the phone disconnected us so I called back. I asked how his sister was doing and he had no idea what I was talking about, which was strange.
He was standing in my room telling me he'd be in Chicago for a while. I asked how long he'd be gone and he said a month, because he was going to try to go around the world in 48 hours again; this time he wasn't going to make as many stops. He said his friend would pay for it, and the total for each of them was only a little over $1,600 Music: Nek - La vida es
Saturday Afternoon, 11.23.02: I went with Kristan to the bathroom and she went in the stall next to mine. I told her that I had been thinking of Ms. Ramig recently (6th grade science teacher) and that I really liked her a lot. Then I remembered she kicked 2 of my friends out of school ("oh wait actually it was just Brandon",) but I said I'd always remember how she talked to "Charlie" to appear crazy on the first day of school and get us to be friends by talking about how crazy she was (true story.) She thought it was strange that I had been thinking about Ms. Ramig, and then Staci Gold walked in. 2 people were telling me a (dream) funny story about Josh Brenner being mean to someone ("What's your name?!") and then Albert walked in.
- When I got to geography in Ms. Saqer's room, Bugaboo told Shanu her violin playing sounded like her mom had never helped her during winter break (big insult.) We all thought it was rude, but afterwards I felt bad that I didn't tell Shanu that her playing wasn't bad and that Ms. Linsley is just a bitch.
- I was walking along the outside of Whataburger at night, looking at pictures posted on the walls of people in their Halloween costumes. Some of them had been ripped off, so I figured that those people really liked their pictures and wanted to keep them. My mom drove up and we left, and upon exiting she asked if Walgreens was on Bellaire. I said it was, and she said that was stupid. Music: Creed - One Last Breath [gey]
Friday Night, 11.22.02: I was telling Fauzeya and Dalia about my blood test results but people kept interrupting me
Thursday Morning, 11.21.02: Ms. Sperotto was teaching a class in the girls' bathroom and the seats were arranged in no particular order Music: Diestra - La Furia
Wednesday Morning, 11.20.02: Dalia handed me a box of pizza to sell for Arabic Club in the morning. It was sweet pizza, and the slices were small and sqaure and went for 50 a piece (even though we originally sold them at $1). I ate 5 of the slices before realizing I had broken my fast, but it wasn't that big of a deal because it was on accident. I still felt bad, though.
- Driving down the westside of town and pulling into an apartment parking lot to make a u-turn
- My mom and I were getting ready to go clubbing with Lily Tomlin, when she called us saying she tried to get into Revolution (a club on the westside of town) but was told to leave because she was too old. She left a message on our machine and almost started to cry. I felt really bad, and then looked at a picture of myself on the wallunit. I thought it was a pretty good picture and that it actually looked like me, unlike many pictures, and thought I would show it to my kid when I got older. Music: Bluvertigo - L'Assenzio
Tuesday Morning, 11.19.02: I was reading my favorite book, and the last 3 pages of part 1 had the colorful back cover on the back of them, to give the impression that you were almost done with it. The wind was blowing the pages so I stopped reading for a while and found a few things on the sidewalk. [it was How Stella Got Her Groove Back (not the book.)] I was pissed off that no one had picked up my notepad and bothered to read it. I thought to myself I mightaswell throw it in the dumpster because it would have a better chance of getting read. Then I walked in the library.
Lis (Elisabeth) was sitting on the floor in the library in line. We were talking and I saw Ivan and said hi to him. Lis said her parents and his were friends, but that she hated him. I said we usedta be friends but then I was helping her bash him. I felt a little bad afterwards, because he was there the whole time.
Music: Fiona Apple - Criminal
Monday Afternoon, 11.18.02: I was downstairs in my dining room waiting for 5:30something to come so I could open my fast. It was 5:00 and I opened a white box with a cake inside and started eating the almond topping without even realizing what I was doing. Then I did and was mad that no one stopped me.
Friday Morning, 11.15.02: I saw Karima and Mayada on the stairs and said hi to them before I walked into the ice cream shop.
- We were at Michael's party, part 1. Emma and Tina were already in the hotel room and were lying in the bed, so I did the same. Michael was really hyper and ran out, then I asked what happened. Emma said something REALLY funny in a really weird voice, without moving her lips at all. I came to find out (after lifting the sheets) that she had a voice player that she operated with her foot.
- In Part 2 my mom dropped me off at Michael's house and I told her I wasn't spending the night. When I walked in Mary was sitting in a chair, dancing, and someone else was doing the same thing (probably to John Mayer.) It was a loser party and then Mary was sitting in front of the TV, eating Cracker Jacks.
Music: Gloria Estefan - Here We Are
Thursday Morning, 11.14.02: 3 Chinese siblings were playing against 3 black siblings in miniature wheel of fortune. Each team had its own small wheel and Pat Sajak gave the fat chinese kid a question he got right. He eventually got one wrong, but thought he got it right, so asked to just have all the questions asked to him
- I guess I was plugging in a speaker...
Music: Bluvertigo - Odio
Sunday Morning, 11.10.02: I was in my mom's room on the phone with Fauzeya, asking her about the geography homework. Before I called her I had eaten Lucky Charms, and I told her I ate those if we were out of Fruity Pebbles. Then I realized I had broken my fast, and then I was in my kitchen wondering if that had all been a dream. Adrienne was on her way over, so I didn't think about it for very long
Music: Diestra - Lamparita funky
Saturday Morning, 11.9.02: My mom comes in my room and goes through all my stuff while I'm in there asking her why she's doing that
- My mom was in a small karaoke store watching a video while I asked the owner a question. He didn't pay attention to me because he was too busy watching the video
Music: (dream song)
Friday Morning, 11/8/02: We got out of the car and walked on the stone sidewalk. Michael said she checked out a Learn Urdu book on tape from the library and was just keeping it because no one noticed it was out. I told her I bought a Learn Arabic book on tape, and it was pretty good. The sun had recently risen so it was still pretty dark outside, and the puddles were everywhere.
Thursday Morning, 11/7/02: Michael and I were singing the rapping parts of "Wannabe"; she was doing Mel B's part and I was doing Geri's.
Music: Diestra - Sin direccion
Monday Morning, 11/4/02: I went into a Harwin store run by Indians. There were a lot of different colored coats and ladies' business apparel that looked like it was from the 80s. I asked the guy if they sold any t-shirts and he said he would look. There were some toys on clearance, but the discounts were weird (like 16% off) and the stuff was kind of expensive, so I didn't buy anything, although I thought about getting a keychain/yo-yo/mini rollerblade set for Michael. The guy didn't find anything, but in the back corner there were notepads and coloring books. I was going to buy a Rocky and Bullwinkle one and an Alf (Scooby Doo) one to sell them on ebay.
- Don Francisco was talking about different desserts prepared around Christmastime. The chef made a really nice lookng French cake with different layers. "Pero... �a la basura!" because tradition was to prepare it only to throw it away. Next, the chef made a chocolate mousse of some sort, and made a face because it was so bitter. Don Fransisco explains that this tradition stems from Capitulo X of Don Quixote.
- 2 Mexicans were coming out of the abandoned apartments by my house and the first one stoked the side of the other guy's face and said he was sorry. The 2nd guy guessed what for until he realized it was his bad breath.
- My mom and I drove to the corner of Fondren and Richmond in the rain to go to some herbal shop. It hadn't been open earlier, but for some reaons it was the 2nd time we went, around 10 PM. I layed down in the backseat and told my mom I'd wait in the car. Music: Bluvertigo - Sotterraneo
Sunday Morning, 11/5/02:
1. Yellowstone
2. Pic N Save - Pete and Pete videos $1 with Are You Afraid of the Dark?
3. see luggage
4. Lake with mom; I get out by climbing wall to major road
5. hotel room at my gramma's house; packing up to leave
6. Asia Argento tells a fan in a strobe light that she's the killer they've been looking for
7. Fan runs to my mom's room Music: Godesses of Jupiter - Of a Necessity (dream song)
Friday Morning, 10.25.02: [dream missing] Music: Faith No More - The Morning After
Ms. Garcia had a DVD of Spain on and it was on pause, but certain little shots of it would stay on the TV screen for seconds at a time. I joking told Julie that my face would pop up on the screen next, and did a funny face as the impression. She asked what was on the screen at that point and I tried to answer her but forgot the name of it ("not Alhambra, but...") I just told her it was built by the Moors and that I wanted to visit it someday. Someone knocks on the door by tapping her fingernails against it; I joke that it's Erin before realizing it's my mom and opening the door. She dropped off a blue poster of mine for my project and I kissed her on the cheek and she said she had to leave in spanish. I come back in while saying "mama" and Ms. Garcia was talking about acne. She said that everyone's hands should have soap on them and then she asked a few people what was on their hands. 2 people said soap (liars), Julie said something else, and I said sweat. Music: Faith No More - Underwater Love
Thursday Morning, 10.24.03: [dream missing] Music: Spice Girls - Stop
Ms. Bagley, in Mr. Mazzoni's room, asked us a literature question: "Now what does this remind you of?" Some boy said "General Hospital" and she said "No, I was thinking it was more Guiding Light." "I don't understand these English soap operas" I said to myself
- I showed Sandra some pictures of me that were cut out and layed them on the biology room's counter (maybe it was a doctor's office counter)
Tuesday Morning, 10.22.02: Crossing a street in the museum district, I found myself in an outdoor computer room taught by Ms. Tartt (elementary school computer teacher.) 2 of my cousins sat next to me and I was helping them research something on the internet.
Munir and I were on a lawn on one of the townhouses in and he was saying that I should come over at 11 AM because that's when Waseem's naptime was (my 2 cousins)
- I was writing Kristan a note in Spanish about "B. Monkey"
Monday Morning, 10.21.02: It had just rained so the streets were wet. My dad and I were driving around Harwin while dark was falling. He said he needed to go to a store there, so we did, and he sat down in the Chinese Cafe eating a Chocolate croissant. I turned to Michael, Ivan, and Jessica and asked them to come with me to the buffet. We saw McKenna and Erin there, and Macca was getting a huge bowl of ice cream. The sight of the bowl made me laugh a lot. The cashier took pictures of us, mine came out cute with Sandra/Valeria (Ms. Warman [elementary school science teacher] in the picture) and Kristan and Dalia each got a camera out to take a "goofy" one of me from different angles. I couldn't be goofy, though
- Drifting in a sailboat Music: Sin Bandera - Sirena
Sunday Morning, 10.20.02: Asia Argento as a ballerina, Rupert Everett as her caring boyfriend. She passed out in the grocery store and later while in the bathroom. Her movie director father Robert DeNiro threatened to kick her out of the film for some reason (passing out was part of the storyline)
- A short man in the foyer of an office building said "Let me tell you 7 languages that have spawned from Arabic. You've got Russian, Latin, French..." and 2 midgets passed by, one in a wheelchair. I wanted to hear the rest but we were planning for a party in the driveway and I poured myself a glass of milk Music: Gary Lewis & The Playboys - This Diamond Ring
Sunday Early Morning, 10.20.02: 8:54 PM, I get awoken by my dad calling, asking if I wanted to spend the night at his apartment. In my groggy state of mind I said yes and spent a good amount of time looking for what to wear the next day. He honked his horn to let me know he was outside waiting and I was taking my time getting ready. My McDonalds shirt had a blue inkstain in the center, and one of my Harwin shirts had it on the side, but I didn't worry about it then and kept packing. Something scared me before I left my room and went to the kitchen to get a banana. It was in a container floating in some light green water, so I just got some milk and put the gallon on an upper shelf in the refridgerator. I heard my dad driving off so I screamed "Daddy!" and saw his Nissan Massima (not Maxima) stop. The key was too long but it opened the burglar bars and turned out to be my set of keys and not my mom's. She came downstairs to ask me where I was going and why I was leaving so early in the morning. I explained that I would get to sleep later because I wouldn't have to ride the bus. She asked "Why? Your shoes hurting you?"
My dad drives a Volvo
Music: Oasis - D'ya Know What I Mean?
Saturday Morning, 10.19.02: A room in a hotel (not a hotel room) had velet red carpet and swinging doors. I looked out the window and it sort of looked like "Spirited Away" and the back of Old Faithful Inn
- We had been driving for years in a van and suddenly I was outside of a house (in the suburbs on a hill) telling them to back into the driveway at sunset. We didn't know where we were, but it was far from home and we might have been there to steal
Music: L�napop - Un giorno migliore
*Hiatus*
Monday Morning, 9.16.02: I was looking at a brochure about places we could go from Salt Lake City, including 1877
Music: Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
Thursday Morning, 9.12.02: A few of us were in Hobby airport waiting for our geography 2 group leader to take us to Intercontinental airport in a shuttle bus. I got tired of waiting so I went to a little room by the exit that had a vending machine in it. A lady was about to close it, but before she did I found a few dollars in quarters on the ground and stuffed them in my pockets. When I came back Michael and I decided to leave, me because I left my luggage at home. She called Codi's house on a payphone and was doing that really annoying baby voice while asking Codi's mom if Codi had died. I was overhearing part of the conversation as I was looking at keychains by the information booth, and I found a really cute flashlight keychain called "Mr. Bulb" (or maybe something totally different, but nevertheless it started with "Mr.") so I decided I had to have it. I asked the cashier at the information booth how much it was, but then said nevermind as I saw the pricetag that said $2.95. The guy charged me $158 (apparently the real price was under the thing that said $2.95) and I told him I didn't have that money and didn't want it, but he insisted that I needed to pay because it was one of those items you can't back out of buying. He asked if I had a credit card and I said no and ran away.
([Dream] within dream:) I was in a field and a mother lion was guarding her cubs. Before running away in fright I decided to let her sniff me, so she did and then I went on the swings. Then Michael was with me on a playground and we were looking at a German muscular guy hanging on a chain exercising. She went over to do the same thing and Ross told her she was getting fat.
I woke up at 4:44 and was freaking out because we're supposedta be at the airport at 4. I was mad at myself for taking a nap, but I went into my mom's room for some reason. She told me I could still go to El Paso and catch a plane to Salt Lake City from there, but I said that was an 8 hour drive, to which she replied "well, you shouldave woken up earlier" (duh.) I felt like shit and then told the person in my room that it was ok that they were in there
Wednesday Morning, 9.11.02: I fell into a volcano or something like it that was spewing hot stuff out and I died, but it was so much fun that as it was happening I figured it was a great way to go
I needed to use the bathroom so I went into Blockbuster and all the way around the store in a circle until I found the bathroom. I wanted to use the kids one, but I had to settle for the women's. There were 3 stalls and I went into the handicapped one, but the door wouldn't close. Some lady's 2 kids were messing with the door so I bitched at them and left, still having to pee.
I was with Fauzeka (bizarro Fauzeya) in Sams. The store was closing soon so we put our stuff on the counter. The cashier started giving us stuff for free, which made us pretty happy, even though it was just labels and other things we'd never use. Music: Paulina Rubio - Si t� te vas
Tuesday Morning, 9.10.02: Michael and I walked out of a classroom and into an industrial looking bathroom with 3 stalls. She went into one while I looked in the mirror and noticed a huge zit half the size of my palm on top of my head.
There was an old blind lady inside of Randalls who looked like she was having trouble shopping, so I offered to help. I found a box of assorted tea bags for $4 that I thought she would like, and a few other items, so I told her what they were and put them in her basket. She was really rude and I regretted helping her when I walked out of the store and into my dad's car, where I found my weinerdog keychain in the pocket of my purple sweater. Music: Bluvertigo - Fuori dal tempo
Monday Morning, 9.9.02: I walked into my room and found a few people I didn't know that well inside of it. Stephen Crump (elementary school)'s leg was on my bed.
In a huge, dark class about dinosaurs taught by Mr. Taylor, I was the only one who laughed at his joke (to be nice) as I walked to my front door.
The bald people documentary explained how baldness came to be a less common gene. There was footage of balding cavepeople coming out of the water (I thought a blond young one was cute) because they were of a race other than human, and later there was footage of a bald caveperson getting attacked by a caveperson with a trimmed beard and matted hair. The documentary went on to explain that the bald cavepeople came from a mixed breed of humans with dark green, "signs"-looking aliens, or rather the 2nd, smaller, bald head of the aliens called the ajusco ("so THAT'S what it's called," I thought [Spanish for the wilderness; countryside,]) whose long neck extended from the navel of the aliens. Music: Patricia Coelho - Meu sangue ferve por voce
Sunday Morning, 9/8/02: Cristina Applegate was in backseat of car that was going through the Texas nothingness
I opened my lunch to eat my boiled egg, but I put way too much salt on it. Mengfei was eating one too, hers without salt or pepper, and I told her I couldn't believe she could eat it dry.
I went into the closet under my stairs with the nasty boiled egg taste still in my mouth
Saturday Morning, 9/7/02: Tony was in my room yelling at me because I took my mom's blockbuster card without her permission, so I threw it at him
I walked up the stairs in an empty mall
I walked out of school and it was really dark outside. McKenna had just gotten out of detention and offered to give me a ride home, or maybe just to go somewhere to cause madness, so I decided to call my mom to tell her. I used Macca's cell phone and my mom just bitched at me and told me to stay there because she would pick me up in 3 hours. I got mad at her, Macca left, and I was walking on the sidewalk around the school (which was more like Taylor) Music: Nelly Furtado - Turn Off the Lights
Friday Morning, 9/6/02: I think the world was going to end soon and Jason Horwitz was in a hospital waiting room with me. He was being pretty friendly and Kristan showed up
Thursday Morning, 9/5/02: My uncle Victor was laughing Music: Madonna - Deeper and Deeper
Wednesday Morning, 9/4/02: Najla was running away from home and I was helping her out. I was walking alone down a sideroad by the AMC 30 theatre until I met up with her by the post office. I gave her a piece of brown bread (in the shape of a small loaf of french bread)
Tuesday Morning, 9/3/02: I'm walking from the cafeteria to the inside of the school behind Halah and I ask her something about Arabic. The halls are crowded but I see Saqi and she tries to tell me something
"Maybe we could [skip school and] go to Gamestop... or Walmart, whichever is (more suitable?) // le zozzerie // I get up off of my dad's couch and into his bathroom, whence, after turning on the light I see a small roach crawling up my leg that I soon flick off. //
Cantar del mio Cid // le zozzerie // (5 lines from a dream Tori Amos song [flash to scene of a backyard in Autumn])
Music: Tori Amos - (Dream song about Magic)
Monday Morning, 9/2/02: Coffee was being rolled down an airplane aisle on a cart with pretty blue compartments. I thought to myself that being a flight attendant is still my temporary dream job.
I was in my mom's closet looking for some clothes of mine while my mom was getting ready for work. The Stanford 9 was that morning, and when I looked at the clock I realized school had already started and that I would be about an hour late, but I didn't care. I asked my mom if I could use the turquoise posterboard she had in her closet, and she said that was fine. There were stencil shapes cut out of it, but I preceded cutting a rectangle that had no holes in it. The back of the posterboard was dark blue and another section was yellow.
I walked into a gas station food mart with some black guys and I noticed that roni size or yonderboi was in the back dancing and playing his music for the latest mountain dew ad. I was happy to see that guy (whichever one it was) was getting more exposure, but I was a little disappointed that it was for Mountain Dew, since I hate that drink. We bought a flavored water 6 pack for $16 (i jokingly guessed that it would cost $15) so we could breakdance with it.
A boy runs on a dock at night to a little shack to meet up with someone. The following morning i'm with my cousin Zachary and i type to the kid that we know his secret. I finally tell him the secret: that you can swim underwater and find something, which we did. Then we met up with my mom and Zachary's mom and tia Blanca, who in the dream wore the exact same shades of makeup as my mom, except for eyeshadow. She gave my mom a lancome face cleanser that she said was really good, and we were about to go home when tia Blanca realized we could go straight to russia, and then china, if we made a turn into an alley. The sign said Russia, and a lady with a star of david on her shirt was giving people a tour that we joined. My arab gramma (who could speak english) was telling me that everyone there was jewish, and when we went down some wooden stairs we found ourselves in a slaughterhouse where the new tourguide was explaining how the lamb become so holy and why they must kill it.
Music: Thal�a - T� y yo
Sunday Morning, 9/1/02: I was in Randalls and I was going to buy some Nilla Wafers.
There was a new version of Bomberman out, and after seeing the commercial I was playing it. It looked a lot like Megaman and I switched weapons by selecting my purple cassette tape case. The level was in a cave and it was pretty hard, but I thought the game was good.
Ms. Garcia gave us a writing assignment in Spanish and I was sitting in the front next to Kristan with my desk turned sideways. That girl who sits behind me in government was giving me shit about sitting in that spot, so I was being rude to her. I eventually moved back to my seat and started writing about how I didn't go to homecoming, but that I hoped Kristan had a good time. Music: Bluvertigo - L.S.D. La Sua Dimensione
Saturday Morning, 8/31/02: Sandra was driving on a narrow freeway when I saw the digital camera she won at school. It was square-shaped and silver, and she discovered it was a camcorder as well as a normal digital camera. I thought I would win one too, but I didn't.
During a firedrill Kristan and I led our class to our elementary school's cafeteria/auditorium and we stood on the stage in dress clothes. We were the only class up there, so we decided to leave after a few seconds. On the way back I threw my shoes off and we saw Chandra in a wheelchair waiting for an elevator. I let her and another girl in a wheelchair go in, then Kristan and I were in my mom's room watching TV. She called her parents on her cell phone and they were pretty mad we left school. I asked Kristan if we should just lie and tell them someone gave us a ride to our house rather than tell them we took metro, and she said no.
Shaq was on Cribs, but he had a tiny apartment with a really narrow hall. He had a lot of crap, though, so he stored them in stackable, rolling storage comparments. One of them had foam basketballs and toys.
Rocko woke up Mr. Bighead by ringing his doorbell a lot and when he answered the door in his PJs, Rocko begged him to touch him so he could prove he existed. Ed Bighead just put his hands in his sleeves, and soon they were both on the Bighead's roof, overlooking a gas station.
Music: Fey - Subid�n
Friday Morning, 8/30/02: Anushree revealed that "girly things" just recently started with her and it surprised me
Music: Bluvertigo - La crisi
Thursday Morning, 8/29/02: My dad and I were in his car in Seattle and he drove up a steep hill where there were some brown apartments. He was thinking of whether or not he should go back.
I was walking outside of Eckards at night when I saw a black nerdy man get into his car. His license plate said "Windows 98" and I thought it was a good idea to get a personalized license plate, so I went to my car and got out the stickers for letters on license plates. I couldn't think of what to put on my plate, though.
Walking into Arabic, I saw Halah standing by her seat wearing a white flea collar (for cats,) which was a new bracelet of hers.
Music: Amr Diab - Akter Wahid
Wednesday Morning, 8/28/02: I went to Kristan's x-diary and her latest entry was called "Kristan." The entry was in tiny text except for the last few lines. First she wrote about how she hoped the pie bites she ate wouldn't go "straight to her thighs" and then she clipped an AIM convo she had with my aunt. In it Kristan told her she had just finished reading A Seperate Peace and she thought it was funny. My aunt replied "Well I hope it was a comedy" and in the next line she told her she downloaded "La Quiero Morir" by DLG and she really liked it (about a month ago I burned her a mix cd with that on it.)
Music: Bluvertigo - Cieli Neri
Tuesday Morning, 8/27/02: Andrew Cone was driving around River Oaks with me and Jonathan from my 8th grade orchestra class (6th grader then) in the backseat. My mom pointed out artpieces on display by stores on San Felipe and we saw mine which was red donut shapes stacked on top of each other with the smallest on top. As we turned on a street with big houses on it I said some piece was a megaman wannabe, even though it looked nothing like megaman.
Thursday Morning, 8/22/02: I was walking on a parking lot when Fauzeya spotted me and gave me a ride in her car (that looked a lot like Yousef's.) As she was parking we noticed that a small blue light went on and off inside her car, and I realized that was because her headlights were going on and off, which made us laugh a lot. When I got out of the car tia Blanca closed her trunk and we went inside a restaurant where we were opening up a china cabinet and I told her how much I loved the Sentidos Opuestos CD she burned me. I said I liked track 8 and we both couldn't remember what it was called.
Wednesday Morning, 8/21/02: After coming out of a restaurant I sat down on a bench inside a shopping center and started reading a magazine on the rack next to the bench. It had an article about new features on Japanese cars and there was a picture of an alien spaceship that I thought was interesting until I realized it was part of an ad. I put the magazine back on the rack and walked outside without knowing why, when I saw Michael walking on the parking lot. She was going to give me a ride and I had been waiting for her that whole time. I told her how strange it was that I knew to walk outside at that moment, just as it had been strange that I accidentally dialed my aunt's cell phone number the day before, thinking that it was the house and she happened to be shopping (which really happened.)
Monday Morning, 8/19/02: My mom was giving me a hard time about the $250 she owned me for my geography 2 trip because she claimed she didn't owe me any money. I was arguing with her from the kitchen.
I was in my room listening to the third 107.9 station on AM that Michael had told me about when my mom came in. Then I was outside of my house in the townhomes's parking lot and I could see my mom through my blinds (I had blinds not my shower curtain.) She closed them and I could still kind of see her, so I realized she had been right all this time when she said people in the apartments across from us could see me.
I was jumping on a trampoline with a Swedish student named Hoess and we both had skis on. He got caught in a phonewire and I figured it was my fault so I tried to help him down but I only made it worse.
Sunday Morning, 8/18/02: We were driving on a freeway somewhere and it was raining. Then Daniela and To�o from "El juego de la vida" were on the beach with their son and someone in the background was rubbing light brown mud over his shorts. Daniela told To�o that she shouldn't have left 8th grade to marry him and have a son. Her mother was watching and came out of a bush to get mad at her.
I killed a tiny roach on my kitchen counter even though I told myself I didn't want to kill roaches.
Saturday Morning, 8/17/02: I was in the orchestra room looking at everyone playing and I remembered when I usedta play the flute, but then switched to cello. There were a lot of flute players in the room and they all had these cheapy yellow plastic flutes. I thought to myself that I shouldave stuck with the flute cuz I sucked at playing cello. (In real life I never played the flute)
My dad and I were in his apartment and then we were driving by my townhouse when I saw something written on a post-it note that was stuck to the window. It was about Northwest and American Airlines and it had their phone numbers on it. I made my dad go inside with me to see what had happened and the house was empty.
I was in an SUV with some people and we were driving down memorial. We got to a bathroom stall where Sting was there with his wife, who had 3 types of cancer. She had something growing on the back of her ear that was a greenish black color and she said that the doctors said they would do something about it but they just made it worse
Friday Morning, 8/16/02: I was with my dad in a mall and he said he would wait for me by a candy stand. It took 2 hours for me to see Ms. Quaite, whose classroom was in a basement. Kristan came with me to make up a test or to interview Ms. Quaite for the TPP. She said we were welcome in her classroom any time, and I didn't really have a reason for going, I just wanted to see how she was doing. I left after a minute or 2 and realized how much time had gone by and I apologized to my dad. He wasn't mad, but he said half the mall had broken off and that was why everyone was running around. I didn't seem to care.
I went to a diner to meet up with the Arabic crew. We sat down in a booth and it mustave been Father's Day because Dalia and Fauzeya were waiting for their dads to come so they could give them cards. Dalia's dad (who looked different than how he really looks) was a playa and he had 2 girls on his arms before he came in. When Fauzeya's dad showed up they gave them their cards and Fizzy gave me a birthday card with something witty written inside. I laughed and then saw that the 2 fathers didn't like their cards. I read the one Fauzeya gave to her dad and it said that she loved him but she wished he would be around more and try to be a better father. Dalia's dad thought that Fauzeya's dad was Arab so he was talking to him in Arabic and he pretended to know what he was talking about, or maybe he understood parts of it, and he said "yulla" and they left. Dalia and Fauzeya didn't understand why they were angry, but I decided not to say anything. I told them I had to go and went across the street in a light rain to see if my dad's friend Fuoad was still in the hospital, even though I was pretty sure he had gotten out the day before. As I was walking to his room I realized it was pretty strange that I would go to visit him without my dad, seeing how I barely knew the man, so I was a little relieved when I discovered someone else was in his room. I walked out and noticed there was a sign that said that in that particular hall there were floors that wouldn't make that "sexy shoe noise." There was a guy who was kind of cute in the elevator with me, and there was something over the loudspeaker in spanish. I chuckled and he did too, so I asked him if he understood what it said. He made something up and I could tell he didn't know spanish, but I quoted something from the loudspeaker about the "monstro" and said something from Abre los ojos. He didn't live in Houston, and he was going to buy something from the giftshop but I told him not to because it was all overpriced. I noticed some chinese slippers for sale as we were walking towards the exit. I asked him to take me to Toys R Us, then we saw Tia Blanca and he was suddenly my cousin Andrew. She didn't buy anything and we left Sam's. I told her not to take the shopping cart because they'd think she was stealing something, and she said she hated when that happened. We walked into their car in the rain and we passed by Toys R Us before we got on the freeway.
Wednesday Morning, 8/14/02: My dad and I were walking into a store (maybe Sams) at night and I saw Grace and someone else from school. They asked why I hadn't been at school during the first week, and I lied and said I had been really sick, when the reality was that I just didn't feel like going and my dad had let me stay home. I told them I would tell them more about it the next day when I went to school, because I was planning on going eventually. My first period was in the auditorium. The teacher said we had a new student and Heath Ledger stood up and introduced himself and Julia Stiles said something typical of a teen movie. A squinty-eyed Amanda Bynes was there as well, and I was pretty happy when the bell rang. I saw Stephanie after 2nd period (English I think) and walked with her to geog 2 while I said "Oh I was supposedta go there 2nd period... oops." Dalia and Fauzeya were in my class and we were supposedta be in groups and somehow Dalia got put in a group with 2 JAPs. Me and Fauzeya decided to change that so I walked up to the girls and said Dalia wasn't gonna be in their group. They apparently didn't know her name so I saw a picture Dalia drew of herself and I scratched it out; "Sheeee isn't gonna be in yer group." They didn't care and kept on talking. I sat down in front of one of the apple computers that usedta be in Saqi's room. I got to Spanish a little late and Ms. Garcia was talking about the summer reading and calling on people to hear what they thought about it. Anabell was talking while I snuck into a seat towards the back. I freaked out a little because I totally forgot about the summer reading, but I got over it and started reading something else.
I was in a van with Dalia and Fauzeya at night and I looked out the window and saw a cheap motel that looked really pretty surrounded by the darkness.
Tuesday Morning, 8/13/02: My dad was telling me that he went to the new Droubi's on hillcroft for cheese
Najla was standing in my bathroom with a copy of Siddhartha. Looking at the both of us in the mirror I told her I thought Hesse had written it but now I could see that it was [dream author.] (It's really written by Hesse)
Manuel from So�adoras had been beaten up and was lying by a stream outside of a hotel while a train passed by.
Monday Morning, 8/12/02: My mom and I were in a store that had floors like the new HEB. She saw that these pants were on sale for $3 and wanted me to get some with a pattern that looked like an exotic tablecloth. I found some plain orange ones I wanted but I couldn't find my size as it was in the kid's section
I was in the gym and some guy and May Ann and I were called down from the bleachers to compete in something where we had to build the tallest thing we could on our head. The guy and May Ann were given props to use, but I had nothing so I tore my green bellbottoms apart and put 1 leg on my head. I figured I would win, but it was still hard to ruin one of my favorite pair of pants. I finally found something to get the pant leg straight up on my head, but the judges already selected the guy as the winner. I was pretty sure my pant leg was taller than what he had, so I asked May Ann to compare and she said that he had won. I had my pants back on but the outer seams were broken and there were little holes along the side that I deemed unrepairable.
I was walking by the t-buildings when I went into a random class and when I saw their class had already started I closed the door. I passed a sign someone made about Ms. Night, the Dutch teacher, and while I don't remember what it said it must have been pretty rude. As I was about to go into the main building one of Ms. Night's students stopped me and bitched at me about making the sign. He had light blonde hair and was possibly Dutch, but definitely jewish. I told him I didn't make that sign, I just saw it on the way to the door, and I went over with him to show him where I saw it. Adrian Santana came out and said he wasn't talking about the Ms. Night sign, but the Ms. Greer sign, which was more colorful and a hell of a lot funnier. It was something about Ms. Greer's balls, and we laughed and laughed as the blonde kid looked angrier. While laughing I assured him I didn't make that sign either, although I admitted the handwritting looked a lot like mine.
Sunday Morning, 8/11/02: I was in what could be my aunt from Seattle's old apartment that I haven't seen since I was 4. I stood in the kitchen while Kristan was slurping down a sonic slushy. The lights were off but there was a faint light coming from the window. Kristan said she really shouldn't be drinking the slushy because it had something like 210 calories a serving, and there were 67 servings in the cup. I thought it was ridiculous because the serving size should be the whole cup since most people drink it all in one sitting.
Saturday Afternoon, 8/10/02: Kristan and I were in the Galleria by the BBQ place and we were hurrying to get outside because her parents were waiting for us. We took a few escalators until we got to my dining room where my dad was sitting down. He explained to Kristan how everyone has the weekends off except him, and when everyone's working it's like his weekend. "That's nice dad" and I hurried Kristan out to my patio to meet up with her parents.
Friday Morning, 8/9/02: Some guy who looked like a cross between Ray Romano and Ross Geller was in his NYC apartment (more or less identical to the house in "Son of the Bride") by the edge of the stairs when his girlfriend came in demanding to know who he was cheating on her with. He insisted she was the only one in his life and she went upstairs into his room (or his son's room) and grabbed the stuffed elmo and another stuffed animal from an open-ended box on his shelf. She asked what he used them for, insinuating they were some sort of sex-toys. She proceeded to walk down the hall after he explained the toys weren't his and the sunlight was blinding as she opened the next door.
Thursday Morning, 8/8/02: I was with a Korean guy in his 20s and he was walking back and forth between some chairs while holding a black wire. It was the telecommunication between Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan, but mostly Korea. I said "I know this isn't Korea backwards, but I'm going to study Japanese," so he followed me downstairs.
Wylie and I were downstairs at the sink by the patio. The house I lived in was huge and old, and I didn't like it. Tony and my mom were walking in and out of the patio while Wylie tried to clean the sink counter with an old tennis shoe, and then a tissue that fell apart. "Whylieee!," I said as I got a clean rag from under the sink and cleaned most of the grime off of the counter, "I never come down here (or maybe I said "I don't live here.") If I did, this place would be a lot cleaner."
Patches (tony's cat) was in my room without my knowing and eventually woke me up by clawing at my carpet, so I kicked her out. Then I noticed Mimi was sleeping on my feet, so I picked her up and put her on the bathroom counter. She was meowing because she didn't want to leave, but I explained to her that she needed to pay the bills and I thought of "Billz, Billz, Billz" by Destiny's Child. She meowed again and I told her she was doing good so far. On the bathroom floor there were 2 magazines, one of them was called "Que pasa Espa�a." A lot of Spanish celebrities were on the cover and I didn't recognize any of them, and after a while I decided to open it. Everything on the inside of the mag was in English and I started reading an article on floor tiles. One of the lighter greens had a weird dream name (similar to verdtly) and I woke up at 6:20 thinking of Jessica Chen while Garbage's "The Trick is to Keep Breathing" played in my head.
Wednesday Morning, 8/7/02: Adrienne and I were walking to hollywood video in the morning. When we got there it was a baby diapers/modelling company. Adrienne talked to the gay guy who worked there and then she went upstairs.
Adrienne and I were in a big office in the morning and we saw Melissa working there so we talked to her for a little while while the boss was clearing a workspace for us. I felt like Ethel Mertz, looking back on it.
I went to the exit of my townhomes, and I had a gray jeep which I left running while I snuck back in the house to get my green mossy sweater that I haven't worn in years. My mom woke up and wasn't even mad that I was leaving at 1 am, but she asked if I was taking the bus and I lied and said I was. Then she asked me to get her something or do something for her, I can't remember, and I left and waited at the bus stop until I was sure she was back inside the house.
Sunday Afternoon, 8/4/02: I went to a buffet and as I walked in someone handed me a plate with some food so I put the biscuits in my pocket and took a plate of broccoli to the long table where my aunt and 3 cousins were already eating. My half-paki cousin had green in her eyes, which my aunt was saying was only good for boys; blue was good for girls. My relatives were also saying she had eyes like my dad and my older cousin was calling her my "little sister" because earlier we were in a van in a field and she would only listen to me.
Friday Afternoon, 8/2/02: We had gone out of town somewhere and on the planeride home I realized I was pregnant. I was with some friend and she was like "everyone! she's pregnant!" and they all thought I was going to go through labor on the plane or something. I noticed that my row of plane seats faced a different way than everyone elses, and that made me feel a little better. Then I was in my room and I was like "God I have sex once and I get pregnant!... I don't even really remember having sex! this sucks!," but at the same time I thought my stomach looked cute and I was kinda happy about the baby.
My aunt Susie and I were in Fiesta and I hadn't showered in a while so I guess I smelled kinda bad. We were buying eggs when some girls that were about 10 came and one of them was like "you smell" to her sister and then they realized it was me. Then we went into the mall that was connected to Fiesta and my aunt wanted to steal something. I was looking at some shoes and I dropped a bunch of boxes to help distract the employee who was giving my aunt kinda weird looks. After she helped me pick them up she went over to where my aunt was and said "listen you! if you think I don't know..." but stopped because she saw that my aunt wasn't doing anything. She had the top of a dark purple pantsuit in her hands, and it looked a lot like something Rosie O'Donell would wear. I was surprised that was what she wanted to steal, but we soon hurried out of the store and she told this chinese guy at the front to press this button so that the alarm wouldn't go off when she walked out of the store. It worked and we went to a food booth to buy something to eat. They were selling regular pizza and a weird, more authentic pizza that looked kinda nasty. The guy in front of us bought that and I looked over and noticed that the chinese guy was ratting us out and was telling the manager how my aunt made him press that button. I told my aunt what was happening and we ran outside and went back to Fiesta so we could find our parking spot.
I was with Kristan and her mom in their car at night. We stopped at some stoplight and me and Kristan got out of the car without her mom knowing. We went into this new hotel and I told Kristan they paid pretty well so she said she wanted to get a job there. After we waited for a while to find someone to talk to, I told Kristan we should leave because her mom might be getting mad, but then this guy came up to us to help. All he told us was that everything was on these business cards in the front. We got some and they were just coupons for 20% off of haircuts and stuff like that, and then I realized that Kristan's mom's car wasn't at the stoplight anymore and we went out to look for her. She was pretty mad at us for leaving, but then we convinced her to let us go to this store to buy some milk. The store was in a shopping center, and it was really cool cuz you had to go through a store and up a few flights of stairs which were by other stores. Someone was having a stoner party in 1 of the places we had to pass by, so I think we stayed there for a while to watch or something. I dunno, but we took a while buying the milk and we had to make some lame excuse up to her mom, who didn't really buy it, but she wasn't that mad because we didn't take all that long. Then I realized I wanted a chocolate thing she had in a catalog and I went back to the store to buy it but the store was closed.
Thursday Night, 8/1/02: I was at my dad's place sitting on his sofa with him when he asked me if I had looked into any more colleges. I told him there was one in Ft. Lauderdale that looked ok and he got really mad in 1 second and slapped me because he said I should get that college in florida idea out of my head. I got really mad because he slapped me and I said the ft. lauderdale one was just a last choice for me.
Tuesday Morning, 7/30/02: I was in a dorm in the University of Miami watching someone play a guitar. Suddenly the floor I was on was catching on fire so everyone was running to get out. We went to 1 flight of stairs and saw that it only went upstairs and not down, so this one guy was like "well I guess we're goin to graduation!" and we all followed him to graduation. It was really dinky and only like 10 people were graduating in the auditorium, so no one really cared when we all ran and jumped off of the stage. I remember thinking the whole experience was pretty fun.
Monday Morning, 7/29/02: I was going downstairs when Michael asked me to go to the computer room sometime, so I said I would probably go that day at lunch. I totally forgot about it though and went to some stockroom with this girl to watch tv. Then we went to a room connected to it to watch Sheera and another girl sing. Then Michael came and I was like "oh right the computer room" and then I saw Ms. Gould and she was like "Hi baby!"
I was in my uncle Pepe (from Mexico)'s house, which was actually some other house, and I was asking my mom to let me go to Mexico because she said I should go somewhere while she went out of town for a few days. I even suggested bringing a friend and she still said no.
Claudio is this e-mail buddy i have (from spain) and we were both in Mexico, but I remember thinking it was really clean. We were sitting outside a cafe which was a little elevated from the rest of the city and I could see busses passing by and other people outside the cafe who were all goodlooking. I wanted him to show me around but he looked really bored so I asked what he liked to do for fun. We went down a metal wire by holding on to a handlebar (it was really fun and scary) and he told me he loved firearms. On the way down one of his friends saw him (they both spoke more like Argentineans) and said something I didn't understand in Spanish, and Claudio said it meant "hey machetti (sp?) we've got something for you!" After we got down he found a giant falafel maker which he called "donuts!" and started making giant falafels (how they are before you fry them) to make into an explosive. He was entering a competition for it, but after he was done I noticed everyone else had make guitars out of mud. The little kid next to me made (with his mom) a Lilo and Stitch ukelele, which was sure to win, although someone attemped to make a guitar that doubled as a violin, even though the violin really sucked. The last guitar revealed didn't play and was disqualified. Then everyone left and I was with Adrienne who was making a Spiderman outdoor thermometer (actually it was something else entirely which had no real function, but it looked kinda like an outdoor thermometer.) In the dream she had made it before, but she couldn't find this sensor because her mom threw it out, so she was just moving the dial up and down with her hands. I think I woke up laughing a little.
Sunday Afternoon, 7/28/02: I was with a dream friend in a parking garage and we saw that the place where she parked her car was closed off. I remembered that there was some prostitution going on around there (from a rerun of Seinfeld I saw a few days ago), but we really wanted to get her car back so we talked to one of the security guys to see if we could get it. Then some cops came and thought we were hookers and I went running down some stairs before they could arrest me. I ran into about 3 different shops, but went back into the first one which was a costume shop run by gypsies and/or jews. The lady who owned it thought I was one of them so she brought some clothes she thought I might like and gave them to me for free. The only condition was that I had to be in some play of hers, or something weird like that, and I really didn't want to. When I found out that I would be playing a robber I said "Why do I have to be the robber?!" and she was like "ok I guess I can see your point" and I ran out before she could do anything. There was another girl who was going to be the princess, and she looked jewish, but I never said anything to her. I ran out still wearing the tiara the lady put on my head, and I guess I was carrying the clothes she gave to me. I ran all the way to the back of celebration station (behind the putt-putt course), where I started singing along to the song they were playing. My mom was there and was hungry so I went with her to the whataburger, which turned out to be a grandy's buffet. My mom was getting A LOT of chicken fried steaks, and I got one and asked her about soda, but I said it in spanish. Some south american brothers, about 11 and 8 years old, heard me and said I was saying it wrong, but I couldn't understand what they were saying when they corrected me. Something that started with a P.
I was in my room, which was pretty messy, when Michael came over. She was driving a huge ugly truck and parked it really crooked and almost ran into our neighbor's patio. It was pretty funny so we laughed about that. She was wearing a white blouse and a red skirt, and they looked a lot like something Sue Ann Nivens would wear on the Mary Tyler Moore show. I didn't ask, but I told her about what happened at the gypsy shop and I wanted to show her the clothes I got cuz I kinda liked them. I was changing in my bathroom and was having trouble figuring out how to put them on because I guess in dreams I'm kinda retarded, but eventually I took off my Ponchie Da Blob shirt (white) and put on the red blouse the gyspy gave me and the black blouse over that. They were both really light and seemed to be made out of nylon. I came back in my room and Michael was looking at the new picture collage I made and asked why I was obsessed with shadows. I didn't really understand why she was asking but I showed her the picture of Andrew's feet and shadow on the collage, which made her kind of sad. I guessed they had broken up, but I wasn't really sure. Then I was looking for my tiara on my bed.
Friday Morning, 7/26/02: I followed some kid my age into the Sharpstown movie theatre where they were playing "The Flintstones" movie, and I thought it was a little weird that they were showing a movie that old, even for a dollar theatre. I think the guy I followed in was a serial killer, but I lost him somewhere in the theatre and so I just decided to enjoy the movie. When I got out I went by the concession stand and was talking to some dream friends.
Kristan and Mary were talking against a wall and Mary had a bright red shirt on. She was really happy, but Kristan was tired because the both of them had stayed up til 5am studying.
6 small pieces of toast where in a basement and had made a secret language where they buzzed. Then 2 of the pieces ate themselves and the human mother came in to tell the toast to go to sleep. They lined up and then went to bed, and then turned into some of the boys from South Park. I remember Stan and Butters where there, but the other 2 were probably dream South Park characters. There were some South Park girls on the other side of the room, and Butters was going out with one of them. He moved to their side of the room where there was a really fat girl and a girl with a retainer headpiece.
I was in my room looking at a map of hotels in Houston trying to see if there was a "Last Stop" motel like I had seen in Seattle (in the dream.) I couldn't find one so I asked my mom if there was one in Houston. She explained that in Seattle there was a lot of open space and in Houston it wasn't like that, so that's why there was no motel with that name here.
Thursday Afternoon, 7/25/02: Val had written an e-mail to me about this friend she usedta have but now the only thing they have in common is their love for drama. I remember thinking how it was sad when friends drift.
I was in the backseat of my mom's car as we were driving into our parking spot. We lived in the same townhouse complex, but in one that was closer to the middle than where we actually live. I saw a big white truck park next to our spot and there were 2 mexican guys in it and a tall redheaded guy sitting in between the both of them. I stayed in the car after my mom got out and the redhead came in somehow and gave me a card he made out of red construction paper
I was back in the apartments we lived in 5 years ago and I was talking to Anushree about these plane tickets I had and I gave her my extra one. I don't know where we were going but suddenly we were on the plane and I emptied out the junk in my Chibi moon lunchkit in the plane seat next to mine. Anushree was asking when the next flights left if we missed our flight and I was telling her 11am, 1pm, 2pm as the plane was taking off.
Thursday Morning, 7/25/02: I was in the car with my Paki uncle and it was raining really hard while we were on the freeway. Then it was Michael's bday and I still needed to buy her a present. I was in some artsy store during a field trip i guess, and I was still having trouble finding her something because the place just sold a bunch of crap. I went downstairs and saw May Ann and Kristan, and May Ann had all these paintbrushes she was going to buy, so I asked her where she got them and decided paintbrushes was better than nothing (although in real life I wouldave just waited and gotten her something better after her bday.) I walked past the children's books section where all these little kids were sitting on colored plastic chairs reading, and I finally found the paintbrushes, but they were like $15 each so I don't think I bought them.
I was walking around outside the school with Kristan and Sandra and I saw Tim so I talked to him for a little while. Then the 3 of us went to a ticket counter and found out that a Madonna concert was gonna start in about an hour. I really wanted to go and Sandra kinda wanted to go, but Kristan was just like "Eh," so we went to the counter to ask how much tickets were. The guy said they were $40 for lawn seats and that you could barely see anything, but I had had lawn seats before and they weren't bad at all, so I was still psyched. Then Sandra decided she didn't want to go, and then Kristan didn't either, so I was kinda pissed cuz I still wanted to. I saw Gerson with Miguel and some other friend and even THEY were going. I talked to him for a little while and we did that friend cheek kiss like they do in practically every country except the US, and then I went back to school. We saw Wylie and talked to him for a little while and then went inside.
Tuesday Morning, 7/23/02: I was in the car with my mom and my aunt Gloria from Seattle. We were driving around some part of West U or Memorial, and it was soo pretty and secluded on a hill. There was a huge light brown office building that blended in pretty well with these big rocks in the background. I wanted to go inside, and my mom actually stopped the car so we could walk around, but the furniture store (it was then a furniture store) was closed. The ground was a shiny dark grey marble and we stopped to get some brochures for my aunt. A few of them were in Japanese (like the ones I saw in Seattle) and I felt a little like I was dreaming when my aunt asked to take a picture of me. She actually said "Not without my little Taurus!" and I woke up from my daze to realize she was talking about me, even though in real life my mom is the Taurus.
I woke up at my dad's and he had breakfast ready and was telling me to hurry and get up. I did and noticed that the tea wasn't ready yet, so I was a little mad that I had gotten up. He asked if I wanted an egg and I said no, yet when I got to the table I noticed one and decided I would try a little bit. It had to have been made out of rubber, and it almost looked sunny-side up except that it was a greyish color and stood about 2 inches upright. I kept trying to get a piece of it with my bread and it kept slipping around the plate.
Monday Afternoon, 7/22/02: I was watching King of the Hill, or maybe I was actually Bobby from the show, but either way Hank was trying to get this egg from Bobby and he finally convinced him and ran out of the door. Then that girl (Lihn I think?) rode her dirtbike to Bobby's house and was all mad that he gave his dad the egg and Bobby was like "but he said he really needed it!" She took off on her bike again and when Bobby asked where she was going she said she was going to ride back in time to 5 minutes ago where she could stop Bobby from giving his dad the egg. Apparently it worked, and Bobby followed her on his bike.
Sunday Night, 7/21/02: It was nighttime and my dad was over and someone was going to tow my mom's car (like in real life,) but he suggested putting Charlie (a cat we take care of that lives outside) inside the house so they wouldn't pick up the car. My mom was saying that didn't make any sense, but I totally agreed with my dad and said "well it couldn't hurt to put him inside" as my dad grabbed him and put him in the dining room. Then it was sunny outside and I was in a really big house in another city. At first it was McKenna's and her dad was the guy who played Lorena's dad in "El juego de la vida." We were trying to hide that I was there, because for some reason I wasn't supposed to be, but he eventually saw me. Then McKenna was someone else and I was trying to sneak out of the house before more people saw me. Later I was back at the house afterschool and I was sleeping in the guestroom. I knew we had finals the next day, but the new school I was going to was kinda easy so I didn't think I needed to study anything before the next morning, especially since I didn't know which 2 finals we were having. When I woke up I was freaking out because I had overslept a little, which meant I could get to school in time but I wouldn't have time to study. I tried to call Kristan to see which 2 finals we were having, but when I finally got in touch with her she was like "ooh yeah we're having finals today. shit!" Eventually I stopped caring about it and I was outside of some shops on what I guess was the Galveston strip, talking with Kristan and her cousin. We had a dream friend and she and Pujan liked each other for a while but neither one had asked the other out. She was talking to us and then Pujan. In the next dream my cousin from Mexico Emi called and woke me up. I think she said "so you're coming to Mexico soon right?" and I was like "oh... yeah" cuz I was still half-asleep. I can't remember if she was talking in English or Spanish, but I knew it was her as soon as I picked up the phone.
Saturday Afternoon, 7/20/02: Part of my house had broken off and I was inside while it was falling down a snowny mountain. Some dream people were with me who I didn't really know, but we became pretty good friends throughout the course of the falling (which lasted for about 3 to 4 days.) I think Fauzeya was also with me. I was in my downstairs bathroom with 3 of the dream people and we were talking about what we'd do if we ever stopped falling down the mountain and how everyone prolly thought we were dead. Then I said "you know, I heard that if you're falling and you hurt yourself it hurts more, but," and then I started pinching and scratching my face, "I can't feel anything!" I wasn't even cold, so I guess the heat was working or something. Valentino Lan�s agreed with me about the lack of pain, but then told me to stop making funny faces. We started talking about our lives and I remember thinking about this amazon.com book summary I had read a day before we started falling down the mountain. The book was about pretty much the same thing happening to me, and the summary had said that those strangers became really good friends. When I read that I thought that could never happen with me, but at that point I realized how wrong I was. Then I thought about how horrible it would be if we fell into the sea and drowned, but I realized the sea would be really icy and that would probably break our fall. Then we stopped falling and we went into my upstairs bathroom (connected to my downstairs one.) Most of us were afraid to look outside, but Fauzeya did and said there was mostly sand (even though it was freezing temperature.) Then she said that the sand was on top of ice, and there was a break in the ice and underwater you could see a layer of snow and a circle of fire (or maybe lava.) I started freaking out cuz I thought we would fall in the fire/lava, so I stood between the doorway in the style one would during an earthquake. I told people not to move too much or talk too loudly, and then Ruthie from 7th Heaven (previously Fauzeya) started screaming to me after I asked her how thick the layer of snow was. She said it was about as much snow as a soccer field, and then I was in my room alone. I was going to go online and ask people for help, but then I remembered the phone line was cut off. I thought I would type my will and the falling mountain story and save them on the desktop so that if anyone found the computer after I was dead they would know what had happened. I woke up pretty scared.
Thursday Afternoon, 7/18/02: I was in a food court in a mall, then a dusty haunted house, and then in Ms. Moore-Walker's class. The bell rang for lunch and I found my nerdy friends breakdancing outside where we eat. Most of them were in these yellow jumpsuits, and I remember Katherine Zodrow was dancing as I sat down and asked May Ann what was going on. My voice was a little deeper than usual, but not by that much. Lunch ended and I walked towards the t buildings to get to webmastering. There was a class called "army" out there and I saw Steven Kogan so I talked to him for a little bit. His 5th period was "Stanford" which was a class for jewish guys to invest in the stock market. I got really lost and ended up by the auditorium, but I eventually got to class and no one noticed I was late. The classroom layout was different in that it had 2 rows of computers in the middle of the room, so I sat at one of the corner ones and tried to go to yahoo.com. Some guy was walking around where I was sitting, and at first I typed "commercial.yahoo.(something)" and then I realized it was just com, not commercial, and then I realized that .com went at the end and www went first. But instead of www I typed like mm2, and after typing more things I was like "what the hell is wrong with me? that guy prolly thought I was an idiot." I finally got myself together and I typed it in right, but I realized there was an extra space after the www., so I tried deleting it but the computer starting fucking up and typing semi-colons and weird stuff.
Monday Afternoon, 7/15/02: I was in wisconsin to tour some college, and I already knew I didn't want to go to that college but the whole trip was free so I figured it wouldn't be bad. A bunch of high school seniors were there and we were gonna stay for a week or 2 in the dorms. The dorms were really outdoor cabins without roofs, but they were really pretty because it was in a forest and the trees were gorgeous. 1 blonde girl wanted more people in her cabin, so she offered me her top bunk if I would stay with her. I decided to stay in that cabin, but I said she didn't need to give me the top bunk, and then the layout changed a little and there were 3 beds on the top. I started talking to her and she said she had no interest in going to that college either, but the trip was free. Then some annoying JAP came into our bunk and slept on the other side with another jewish girl who we had been talking to earlier. Suddenly it was dark and we were supposedta go to sleep, and it seemed like everyone had slept right away, so I was just talking to that blonde girl. We became friends pretty quickly and after we made fun of the JAP I said I wanted to go the U of Miami. She was about to tell me where she wanted to go when the headmistress (what we called her) came in with some other lady. We got really quiet but the old wench came over to us and started whipping us I think. I just pretended to be asleep for some reason, and I guessed she was mad because we had been talking earlier. After she left that JAP came out and was laughing, and we figured out she was the one who told on us. We waited a few minutes and then snuck out of the college. My friend had a small green SUV so we went to sharpstown mall. We went to the bathroom and I was holding something, it might have been Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, and out of nowhere the JAP and her friend, who at some point turned into Meredith Amavena, who, get this, is yet ANOTHER person who went to my elementary school whom I barely knew (although this time makes sense because yesterday I went through my old yearbook), and Megan Ashley, who also went to my elementary school, but at least I was friends with her (geez- it's gettin kinda freaky how many people I'm dreaming about that I don't even know.) I started screaming because they were trying to take that thing out of my hands, and somehow me and my friend escaped and hid somewhere. We were outside and it was still light out, and then I was like "shit! they know what car you drive!," because Megan had told me when she was trying to grab that thing out of my hand. The next thing we see is Meredith and Megan driving away in my friend's car, so we were both pretty pissed off. Then we saw Ivan and were telling him about what had happened. It was close to 9pm, so we decided to see a movie since most of the stores in the mall were closed. We just walked in without having to pay and there weren't even real theatres there, just 2 small rows of seats inside hallways with movies playing on a somewhat small screen. The only movie playing was some German movie with subtitles so we were watching that, even though it was kinda boring. My dream friend turned into Michael, and she sat with 1 seat between us, but then this really fat biker guy showed up and sat next to her so she made a REALLY funny face and moved over. I think Ivan fell out of his seat or something, and then he said "I want some candy, but I don't wanna get any" and when I asked why he said "Because they'll rot my teeth!" in a weird, funny tone of voice. Then I noticed he was sitting on the floor because this cute little baby in a carseat was sitting in his chair. She was the daughter of the guy sitting behind Ivan, and I realized that everyone else in the theatre was white trash. Then we were sitting on a busstop bench right outside of the mall and Michael went somewhere. We saw all these people come out of Service Merchandise (which was never in the mall) and they were all wearing the same red shirts and blue pants, but they didn't work for the store. Most of them had big bags with them and Ivan asked if they had a lockdown, which in the dream was when you were locked in a store during a huge sale and no one else could come in (do those exist?), and 1 chinese guy said yeah, and that it started at 9:20. I was like "ahh we were here then! we couldave gone there instead of seeing that stupid movie." Then this girl sat on the bench and Ivan was hitting on her. Some kid who came out of Service Merchandise said the sale wasn't good, and gave me this plastic spaceship toy set that had a 20 cent price tag on it. I was playing with it even though there wasn't much you could do, and after handing it to Ivan it turned into a toy clock. Then the girl's dad came and he was all pissed off because his daughter was talking with a boy, and he was like "what's your name son??" and Ivan goes "Michael" (I laughed) and the dad was like "Vrie, right?" (as in the last name) and he was like "no... Grump." Then the dad said he looked an awful lot like Michael Vrie, and I was like "no sir, this definitely isn't Michael Vrie." Then some random guy who I guess had been sitting close to me the whole time and who was probably the girl's brother, said he really did look a lot like Michael Vrie, and then the dad mentioned something about his team. I laughed and pictured Ivan on a team and I was like "what kind of team is this Michael Vrie on?" and the brother said "basketball," to which I laughed some more. Then they leave and Quintin shows up and he was like "damn that girl was fine!" The 3 of us got up to go and I was picking up some stuff I had dropped, including Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Monday Morning, 7/15/02: I was going to the airport with my mom when we saw Michael and her parents. Michael said she had a gift for me and she unrolled it. It was a HUGE lime green Buffy the Vampire Slayer t-shirt. I thanked her and we went into the airport, which architecturally was really cool, especially the stairs.
Sunday Afternoon, 7/14/02: During lunch I was by the blacktop at school and it was raining so I was standing under that cover. 2 people were running for student council, including Emma, and all my asian friends were telling me to vote for the other guy. Then they started insulting Emma and I was like "but Emma is kinda cool..." and they were just like "uhh." Then it was 5th period and I wanted to hang out in Ms. Saqer's room as usual (in the dream,) and I saw Emma in there lying backwards on 2 chairs so for some reason that made me decide to go to class instead. I started walking towards the S hall room by the stairs and I heard Ms. Moore-Walker (my 5th period teacher in the dream) asking about me and she was like "where's Aisha?? Should I just take her name off of the roster?" because I hadn't been in class all week and I ran in and I was like "I'm here!" and she asked where I had been all that time. Luckily I came up with a good lie on the spot, saying that I had been working on digital bookfair all week, and she bought it and we finished reading some greek play from the literature book.
Sunday Morning, 7/14/02: I was walking down the hall with Michael and we saw Dalia, who was studying for a vocab test. She said some word in one of her example sentances, and then started freaking out cuz she didn't know any of the words. I think the word she said was "endure," (it might have been some dream word like "enbay" or "engle,") but either way it was a pretty common word in the dream, and me and Michael knew it as meaning something else. I knew it had an archaic meaning as well, but I couldn't remember what that was and it was driving me crazy. We saw Ben and asked him about it, and he asked if it was from an Arabic word. I didn't know, but I remember thinking the same thing before we asked him. Then we were walking up the stairs so I could go to Ms. Garcia's 1st period and suddenly we had a basketball. Then we saw Ivan and he was high and walking into people and running around being stupid, and in the dream it really annoyed me, especially because he knocked the basketball out of someone's hands. The late bell rang but none of us were going to class until we figured out what that word meant. I went into Ms. Garcia's class, with the basketball, to look the word up in her huge dictionary (which she might actually have in her class, i dunno) and I asked if it started with an I or an E. I looked it up and the archaic meaning was Michael's name, except that for that instant her name wasn't Michael but that word in the dictionary. I told them and they went to class and I sat down as Ms. Garcia was putting a tape in the VCR and I saw David Bowles, who is yet another person who went to my elementary school who i barely knew.
Saturday Afternoon, 7/13/02: I was at a busstop making small talk with an old black woman who I thought she was pretty nice. Then I was going camping with Adrienne and Nick, and Adrienne went off somewhere so Nick and I started playing on these monkeybars until we fell off. Then we went to this bathroom which was really the bathroom of some house that was separated and out in the wilderness. Nick found a woman's razor in one of those shower holder things and Adrienne came in and was like "uhh what are you guys doin?"
Then I was in the car with my mom and we passed by some place my dad would always go to (in the dream) and it really made my mom mad because it was close to where we lived and in the dream my dad lived like 2 hours away and shes like "why does he come here if its so close to us?!" After we got home I got my AP scores in the mail, only I only got my calculus score, which i thought I did really bad on (seriously i'm pretty sure i did horrible on it) and much to my surprise I got a 4 on it. When I opened the envelope it was all these handwritten papers I had to fill out when taking the AP (in the dream) and when I flipped the page it said I got a 2, and I was like "ahh! what happened to the 4!" Then I started making a lunch to take with me to the beach. It was pretty healthy with the exception of some potato wedges I made; I even remember not taking soda because I realized water was better. When I went upstairs my mom came out of her room with her lunch, which she made in her room somehow and which was identical to mine except the potato wedges were really greasy french fries. Then I was in some room with my mom, 2 of my aunts, and my gramma, who was speaking English. Even though my lunch had filled me up they said I wasn't eating enough and made me eat a hamburger. After I ate half of it and was stuffed they kept bitching about how I wasn't eating enough. Then I was at the Israeli/Palestinian peace thing in that park.
Friday Morning, 7/12/02: I was walking down my street at night with my mom and I saw Mr. Smith by the Texaco. I wondered what he was doing there but I didn't feel like saying hi so I just kept walking. Then I was in the car with I think my dad and there were all these teenage hookers on the street in the middle of the day. They were all wearing these really bright colors, and this one girl with a lime green tight dress came up to us and started telling us the horrors that their pimp put them through, including sticking them with pins if they did something wrong.
Thursday Afternoon, 7/11/02: I forgot most of this dream but in part of it I was in a car with Najla and some other friends and after we got to some place Najla was saying that she really shouldn'tave gone cuz her parents didn't want her to or something, and I was like "well no one MADE you go now, did they?" and I was just bein a shithead to her. At some point in the dream I was in SPM3 level 7 (a game I haven't played in a really long time.)
Wednesday Afternoon, 7/10/02: It was Christmastime and I was downstairs with my mom. I think I already had her present, but then I wanted to get one for her and tony so I decided I would go to Pic N Save. I was looking through the ad sheet and my mom left so I went upstairs to clean my room. I looked through my River Oaks yearbook and remembered that 2 cats went to school with me, but were never in my class. Then I was like "no wonder people got mad that we let 2 cats in; that school was really hard to get into and the cats couldn't even talk!" Then my banned aunt came over and I noticed I had all these stains on my carpet and I thought she would say something about them, but instead she suggested that we go somewhere.
In my next dream the phone rang and the caller ID showed my uncle Jamal's name so I thought it was my cousin calling me. When I answered it sounded like my uncle and he was like "hey yer leaving in February" so I thought he meant Chicago, but I later found out he meant Palestine, so I was all psyched. Then I was askin questions about my cousins and stuff and he was like "no this isn't Jamal" so I was really confused, but I was still happy about going "back home"
Then I was in an office building with some dream friends who were in their 20s. We down in this elevator, and for some reason we weren't supposed to be there, so when we got off I was trying to jump on the top of the elevator to prepare for if someone caught us (the elevator was kinda weird in the dream.) Then I was by some pier at night and there were nothing but vending machines, and lots of them. There were at least 100, but they didn't just sell cokes and snacks. Most of them had weird things and I saw one that was one of those game things where you try to hit this button when the light goes on it and you win a prize, but a lot of people just left the prizes at the bottom. I was gonna grab em all, but I decided I didn't wanna lug all that stuff with me so I just got this really big clear purse with orange lines on it. As I was passing by I saw Mya from my elementary school and she was telling Caryn Robey that she didn't have any money 1 day and she had to use toothpicks, and I thought she meant that she ate them so I thought it was funny but then she said "my teeth were never that clean before." I saw all these Junior Mints that were free, but I didn't blame her for not eating them cuz I thought they were pretty nasty. When I woke up I was thinkin of that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer eats Junior Mints while watching an operation.
Monday Afternoon, 7/8/02: I was using my computer and my mom came in and wanted to see what was going on, so I had to let her and I wasn't doing anything bad anyways. She opened this word file called "thejob" and I was trying to hide that from her for some reason, but when she opened it the dream turned really weird, like a scene out of a bad sci-fi movie set in the future. It's strange looking back on it, because a few days after this dream I opened a file on my computer called "thejob," which was a weird wav file i had totally forgotten about. In the next dream I was in an airport and in a few seconds I traveled the world and then I was in my nonexistent basement having a graduation party. Me and May Ann were on these little flying... tiles I guess, and we went flying through this outdoor reception in what looked like Mexico, or at least Arizona, and we were gonna go karaokeing.
Saturday Morning, 7/6/02: I was back in Rogers and our science fair projects were due that day and I totally forgot about it. I was trying to buy time from Mr. Taylor and getting some pieces of paper together to try to scrounge up a project but nothing was working so I just figured I was gonna get a zero. Then I was in a pawn shop.
Thursday Morning, 7/4/02: I was going upstairs in a castle and then I was a booth in the cafeteria with Michael and a dream friend. Michael told us that she had to make up a joke about a pimp and the pimp had to be Henry Tudor. I asked if he was the one with all the wives and my dream friend said that that Edward VIII. Me and Michael got up to find Paul to ask him about Henry Tudor and I saw that Kristan and Adam Black were going out and that Paul and Katie were back together. Michael didn't want to ask so I went up to Paul and asked, but before he could answer I noticed he had an electric balloon and it could make balloon noises with the press of a button. Me and Adam started playing with that and later I saw Grace and made a call on a payphone. When I finished she gave me a dime (the cost of the call) and I was like "wtf why are you paying me??" Then I went upstairs (in Rogers) to get stuff out of my locker because it was the last day of school. A few hours passed and I was outside of River Oaks Elementary by the field. I started walking home the wrong way just because I wanted to see what was on the other side. I went back and put my headphones on and sang along to "No Surprises" by R.a.d.i.o.h.e.a.d., which in the dream had changed their name recently. I walked across the field and saw a group of 10 jamaican guys who were in the skateboarding club. Their meeting had been canceled because someone brought an illegal skateboard. Then I was walking home from Bellaire and I saw a french bakery's "FAQ" location, which wasn't part of the bakery itself and I guess it only answered questions about the bakery. It was 7 something and getting really dark, and for some reason I was getting scared. Then I was in my mom's car.
Wednesday Morning, 7/3/02: I went to a cheap clothes/furniture store in Seattle and bought a FOBy shirt for a $1 marked down a few times (1 of the prices was something like 10,234.5.50.) When I first saw the shirt it had big text and a really cute picture, but after I looked at the price the picture was gone and the text was a lot smaller.
Monday Afternoon, 7/1/02: I was in my room and some guy was standing outside of my door and I could see his shadow so I was waiting for him to leave, but he just stayed there and it really bothered me so I kicked the door open and hurt him pretty bad. Then I was like "what the hell are you doing standing outside of my door?!"
Then something else happened and then I was in line to play bingo in a section of my school that doesn't exist. I was with some old woman and some dream friend. I was only gonna buy 1 bingo card but the old lady talked me into getting more. She got the 13th one because she said it was the "lucky 13" and I got a few orange ones. There were a lot of people in the bingo room and when I said that to my friend she said "that's good. More people are better," even though I thought we would have a better chance of winning if there were less people. I had never played bingo there before and it was a lot more complicated. I think instead of the BINGO letters they had all 26, and you didn't make little lines on yer card, but instead yer card already had certain things filled in and you just had to match it with the ones they called. You had to match 8 of the letters/numbers they called and make 2 words out of the 8 letters, and with those 2 words you had to make an analogy. I remember I spelled "Brit" and I think "Flag" so I was gonna be like "Brit is to America as Flag is to.." and I couldn't finish it off but I was trying to say that America was better than Britain. That kinda faded away and then I was with Claudia outside of the bingo room. We were there because we both didn't have a 7th period, but then we had to get to 4th period. I told her we should just skip class sometime to play more bingo since less people would be there, but she said it was a bad idea. I agreed after I realized that bingo was in the school itself. The school was a lot bigger and we heard the minute bell ring so I said to some dream friend guy "they should make the time between classes longer if the school is gonna be bigger. Well no, maybe not, because then our school day would be longer." He just kinda ignored me and then we were in this really pretty section of the school that looked like a greenhouse (without the plants) and the dream friend was sitting on a railing that was for handicapped people. I couldn't remember which class I had so I was just wandering around the school aimlessly. I saw Ms. Quaite and asked if I was in her 4th period and she said no, that I was in her 5th period, so I went to my locker, which was pretty hard to find, until the bell rang and I went to Ms. Quaite's class in the computer room. We were watching some video about this guy who was gonna jump off a building, but it was pretty artsy-looking. I think he just started flying in the air and he landed on his back but he didn't hurt himself at all. I remember I sat in the front next to Julie, who had a big Hello Kitty bag. Apparently this video was based on some book, and our homework was to read part of the next chapter.
