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Awake

8:23am CDT Sunday 25 August 2002

(dream)

In a big mansion type place, I was asked if I knew how to select a bunch of bananas at their peak of ripeness, and some huge trees had banana bunches way up in their branches, so I climbed up onto this large boat with a canvas roof and startled a turtle, who slid of his perch and took a bit of a tumble down a hill and ened up on his back but flipped himself over so I didn't bother him any further. I slowly made my way up this boat and found that I could have just used the stairs that led up to a balcony that ran just underneath the branch with the bananas. On this large balcony were several nicely dressed individuals with drinks like a dinner party as I was carrying a bunch of bananas downstairs.

Discovered a large swimming pool with large snakes in and around it. Not so many snakes that people wouldn't swim, which they did, but they just had to be careful of snakes coming up to occasionally bite or strangle them. A couple of snake charmer type people were trying to make cash by impressing folk with their snake interaction skillz, or just by carrying huge snakes around on their necks like scaley scarves.

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With Kristen's sister Jessica at a place where two guys each with scads of cash crumpled up in various rooms asked her if she would teach a group of their friends how to write well. Jessica asked about what they would pay her, and they just gave her some cash out of their pockets and it was like 10 dollars, and then one guy went off to his room and brought back a pile that was a bit more substantial, and just as Jessica was done straightening and facing the bills, the next guy dumped more on her lap, effectively forcing her to start over with the counting as she wouldn't be able to tell what she had counted and what she hadn't.

As Jessica and I were riding the bus back home, she counted like $160, which was plenty of money for her to want to teach the class, but she didn't have a sense of how to begin such a project. I old her that I would be able to help, if I had time, and her sister might be able to help as well if she had the time.

We got off the bus at a crowded university campus and a woman gave me ten dollars for no apparent reason. Jessica and I were all "whoah that was weird," and parted ways as I needed to cross the street and she needed to go up the street. We didn't hug, but were just like, "bye" even though we didn't know when we would see each other again.

I walked across the street despite traffic and a bicyclist slowed down and swerved out of my way, when he could have just stayed the same speed and straight and been past me before I got there. I heard him complain a bit as he rode by, but I didn't sweat it as I made it across the street.

Dallas

12:45pm CDT Sunday 25 August 2002

From Austin, I've arrived in Dallas now and got to see Janette just before she left to get Miss Josephine from church in Ft Worth.

Jack is jackin around on the computer, or at least he was until I started this sentence.

I'm going to Plano YRUU tonight and Jack might go with.

Jackie game

7:44pm CDT Sunday 25 August 2002

In Plano YRUU, Jon had out a little hand held video game thing and I asked him if he was able to save his place in the game. At that moment I wasn't asking him to turn it off so we could have check-in (though that could have been a viable reason), but wondering more about the state of technology, cause "back in my day we had games like Split Second and Simon, and we couldn't save anything."

Simon was all, "haha you had a game named Simon."

Jackie said, "there should be a game called Jackie."

So we made one up:

Jackie's Purdy Game

5 to 15 players

Three people are selected to be named Jackie 1, Jackie 2, Jackie 3. They all leave the room and one of the Jackies briefly tells the others a story about themselves that no one has heard. They come back into the room and each one gives a summary of the story. Then the rest of the group asks probing questions about the story to specific Jackies.

eg: "Jackie 2, what type of beverages were there?" or "Jackie 3, what color was the mouse?" That kind of thing.

After a few minutes of questioning, the group comes to consensus of who they think the real Jackie is.

12:08am

Come to find out, this game is one that used to be a TV game show from 30 years ago. I thought Marta made it up, but no.

denton

12:09am CDT Monday 26 August 2002

I'm in Denton now. After YRUU, I followed Marta to her parents house where she dropped off her mom's car, and then I drove her home. Turns out that Denton is closer to DFW than Dallas, so I'm going to stay here and hopefully track down Bryn's exact leaving arrangements so I can see her off to UK.

Marta and I just watched Dogma. Ironically we both watched it this past week, possibly both on the same night. Very interesting.

Now I remember my favorite lines from the movie: "You know Jesus?"
"Know him? Shit, nigga owes me twelve bucks!"