cornerofmadness

I dreamt one of my problem students (Have never actually seen this person in RL) was in my house and that my mom/roommate (I wasn't clear on this) let him in. He woke me up. I was in my nightgown and pretty pissed off that a) he was in my bedroom and b) my housemate left him in. He was all weepy eyed and mad that he was failing and could I help him? I don't remember the whole conversation now but I got the idea that he was going off the rails on a crazy train.

I finally got him calmed down and thinking gah I'm here in my pale blue nightgown. No student should see me like this. As I was hustling him out of the room, I saw this brownish carapace on my mattress. I was furious and grossed out. OMG a roach. However, when i reached down to get it, it clamped onto my finger. It was a little crab not a roach.

I was all excited and I showed it dangling from my finger to the student and to the housemate and he said maybe it came from the gift he had had brought me to b utter me up. He gave me a plastic ball with a bigger crab in it. 'They're 'land' crabs' he said so I take them both into work and my dept chair, the ecology prof and I are all standnig in one of the labs looking at an 'aquarium that is land on one side and on the other is aquatic with a little slide the crabs could go from one to the other. INside some very tannic murky water was another crab, a brightly colored snake and this thing had a lab desk top on it and served as the instructor desk for the lab.

As I'm arguing with Dept Chair that it's too dirty for my pet crabs, I reach in to demonstrate and see and even larger grey snake-like thing that keeps lashing out like cthulu is clawing his way out of this tank. I finally decide I'm going to put my pets in a smaller terrarium/aquarium in my office but then the dreamed turned into another of my labyrinthine building dreams and I woke up before i could get there.

and it was another night of waking every other hour. so sleepy.