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October 21, 2005

495: "Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'ma viking!"

I went to bed later than usual and used the chirping crickets setting on das Sleepmaschine again. I didn't put in a lot of time sleeping last night, but I did manage to have one notable dream.

I was in a very Ikea-like concrete building; it contained a noisy cafeteria with uncomfortable yellow chairs and, inexplicably, duty free shopping. At some point there was also an area in the cafeteria with internet access but it magically disappeared later in our story.

I was checking my email and found myself receiving threatening instant messages from that guy who was making a stink on the MOGblog several weeks ago. In reality, I found the guy a little strange but unthreatening; evidently I was far more disturbed by his behavior than I realized, because I found myself fairly upset by this in my dream. I was so upset that when it came time to eat lunch with a real-life coworker in the awful cafeteria, that I behaved really strangely and left abruptly to go home.

It wasn't a very interesting dream, but I did like the detail about duty free shopping -- everyone likes duty free. Well, likes it in that headache-inducing, completely fatigued, "You wait here with the bags, I'm going to go get rid of these Euros buy spending them on something rather than dealing with the currency changer" way. But it's all fun and good until a bottle of garlic olive oil asplodes in your bag, kids. Remember that.

Posted by ashley at October 21, 2005 11:40 AM

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