My brain is haunted

I haven't had a dream this long and involved in a while. It began at my grandmother's house but that's all I remember about it other than there were ghosts. I have to admit, I have a little fantasy going on right now where I get a job back home and move into grandma's house. Here's the thing, it's the ONLY part of back home I dream about regularly and it's never in a particularly good way. I always dream about malignant ghosts or bad magic in connection.

Anyhow on to the parts I remember well. I was with my friend, L. We were in a library. It wasn't a library I knew. It felt wrong. I was on edge. A little girl came up to me and said 'there's a really bad ghost here.' That explained the feeling I had and then I heard a man's voice say L's name loudly. I knew it wasn't a human who had said it.

I went looking for L. She was backing out of the stacks, shaking and crying but I couldn't get her to tell me what was wrong. She pointed into the stacks. I didn't see any ghosts but there were a few people there browsing, including another biology faculty member, DA. He just looked up at us smiling as if he couldn't see that it was snowing inside the building and the feeling of menace was overwhelming.

I woke up at that point, shaking. Now I've been a ghost hunter for 30 years and don't rattle easy so why my brain decided that was enough to scare me....

I fell back to sleep and I didn't quite go back into this dream but it felt connected like I had just left the library. It was dusk and I was driving to a meeting in my mini-Cooper. I know it was just a casual meeting and apparently I was tired because the next thing I knew I felt high grass and bushes smacking me in the face through the open window. I slammed on the brakes realizing i had fallen asleep at the wheel and was off the road.

I get out of the car to assess the damage and see I'm teetering on top of a grassy path to the bottom of the hill. It looks like other cars have gone down there. A few locals were standing around and saying yeah it's a dangerous curve and a lot of people just drive down through the grass to the bottom. Also I should stand back because my car is going over the edge. I reach in and grab the car seat and the door and lift the car up and put it back on the road. They're stunned. I laugh and say what do you expect? It's a tiny car.

I get to the meeting and someone is showing me around the place, a young lady, office-manager type and then she escorts me to an auditorium/theatre room and we're sitting in these old fashioned red velvet seats. I can't sit still. I'm squirming everywhere. I even have my feet over the back of the chair in front of me (I never do that) and I'm aware I need to stop this because I'm making a bad impression but I can't stop myself. Then horror strikes: omg is this a job interview? I say this isn't the big interview? I'm only dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt. Why am I only dressed in jeans? She assures me it's not but keeps eyeing me funny because I can't sit still.

Sadly I woke up before I ever met whoever it was I was there to see.

It's been a while since I've had a tactile, full color, full sensory dream

It's raining dough

And not the good kind. Today has been yet another frustrating weird day for me. While I was gone for spring break my fridge heated up. It was set very low so I thought maybe I bumped the dial when I cleaned it out before leaving. I had the thought 'I hope nothing went bad.' Tonight I found what went bad. I was going to bake a tube of Pillsbury Grand's for dinner. The tube exploded. It hit me in the face. It hit the ceiling. Dough rained down everywhere. Guess it was warm enough to activate the yeast. I am not amused.

The same can be said about my stupid Android tablet. All I wanted was to borrow an ebook from the library because it was a) a mystery and b) started with X for my alphabet challenge. I've never done this before. Earlier in the week I learned you needed overdrive.com for this. I downloaded it but it didn't work. I took it in and asked the youngest librarian figuring he'd know. (He did. I like him. He's a fantasy artist and he's pretty good). He said download the app instead of the browser. I did. Took three tries because the google store kept not responding. Couldn't get the damn book to open. Finally got it open and then it would only read the copyright page. I have no idea how I finally got it to go to the novel (I was even clicking on chapter 10 just to see if I could get it to go to something other than copyright). Heaven help me if I accidentally lose this book because damn I'll never get it to work again.

The only thing I've done of merit is to get my novel back to the editors.

Abney Park has some new videos out for their new album. I didn't like this one at first but it really grew on me. This one is fun, has a few same-sex dance partners, though it's hard to tell since it looks like it was filmed inside a bowling ball. The credit reel is worth watching. The twink and the bear with the fake beard are out of control and too much fun. I need to use the twink (I think he's Shazam Watkins from the band The Fame Riot) somewhere.

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George Takei sent out a thing with celebrities in their youth. I had NO idea Morgan Freeman was on the Electric Company. I remember loving that show as a child. I don't remember any of the skits though. I remember Spiderman, Electro-Woman and Dyno-Girl and the two faces finishing each other's words. I'm beginning to think every teacher/role model I had as a child was fucking high. For example.

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I suspect back in the day it would have been considered diversity and hip and today maybe just a bit racist or at the least stereotypical.

Declutter day 334 Item tossed- Ostomy care creams Why kept-Samples from my medical days Why tossed-I haven’t seen a patient in 14 years. WHY I have carried something I never used anyhow through three moves? WHY?