Entries this day: Dream_Aaron Dream_diversion Dream_dolly Work maraiah

Dream Aaron

3:56am CST Monday 4 November 2002

(dream)

At a rally at Aaron Ryan's house, like a farm and he neeeded to cut down a large tree in his back yard and that fact had been advertised on the rally flyer. But when he cut it down, no one was watching except me and it fell into a the neighbor's yard and knocked down one of their trees. Actually Aaron's tree was so enormous that its branches basically dwarfed and bullied over the neighbor's tree, and it fell on their roof and destroyed their garage at first, and then smashed to bits their home.

They ran out of the house and we were all "oh shit" so we ran over and I was thinking "ah they needed a new home anyway" Their old house was unpainted now after years of wear and boards were all falling apart and such.

Dream diversion

5:07am CST Monday 4 November 2002

(dream)

'you create a diversion," I said to my friend.

We were in a mental hospital, so he starting spraying shaving cream on the walls and theatening to kill someone.

I became him and sprayed shaving cream thickly at the floors, with a spray can powerful enough to shoot like a waterhose worth of foam at once. I said threatening things like, "I'm going to kill so and so" or something and people started fleeing or calling the cops and security in the hospital.

I was simply trying to keep them from getting my friend.

I went up the wide staircase and sprayed shaving cream all over the hard tile surface, making them quite slick and dangerous. So when I saw someone starting to chase me, I ran back and jumped down all the stairs and carefully slid on the tile and slid along the corner wall and around the corner and jumped down the next flight of steps......

So then I was running and jumped down some more stairs and out a door and since I knew I had to do this for real, I decided that I needed a real way to escape, so instead of flying, I had installed a trapeeze outside the door hanging off the overhang roof thing and jumped out the door and with such force that when I grabbed the trapeze, I just flew up it in a 270 degree arc and flopped onto a big soft foam rubber cushion on the roof. safe.

Dream dolly

7:51am CST Monday 4 November 2002

(dream)

Driving Karaoke, Janette, and Jack really fast down some clay hills streets of Dallas, except we were riding on a dolly. Very fun wizzing around on that.

We headed quickly down a hill on which we had to turn at the bottom, but they got off before we got to the bottom. I was a bit offended that they wouldn't trust that I could stop the dolly smoothly in time. I did, but it was no problem to go back and get them, knowing that I at least, had successfully navigated that hill at high speed.

Work

8:25am CST Monday 4 November 2002

Lotta interesting things at work today. Got to see the warehouse, which amounts to a big big metal shack with a gate. After Vince wasn't brash enough, Charles drove backwards like a bulldozer through a pile of garbage to get the Ryder truck up to the gate.

Got to see the God Dome, I mean Prestonwood Church in Plano. Big. We're helping set up their stage for Christmas.

Vince drove me and Jeramiah back to the warehouse to get stairs, but we couldn't find the stairs. Turns out it was the wrong warehouse. Johnny just asked us to get two 6x6 foot pallets while we were there, and at the same time-ish, two cats from off the street offered to help us load stuff. They loaded the pallets for us and moved a set of stairs back, which we had moved while looking for the correct stairs. I gave them each $1 for their efforts (10 minutes of work) and they whined until I gave them another $1 to split between them. Shit.

Then when Vince got back in the truck for us to drive away, it wouldn't go into drive. Just stuck in park. Put the parking brake on, the pedal brake on, turned the engine off and back on... nothing. Couldn't get it out of park. Until suddenly he was able to get it out of park. Weird. I'm glad we didn't have to call Ryder peeps to come help us.

maraiah

11:13pm CST Monday 4 November 2002

I called Jennifer N-P twice tonight since she says we need to meet before Friday. At 8pm, soon after I called her the second time, while I happened to be removing a rat worth of long hair from the shower drain as a community service to this homestead, the phone rang and it was for me.

This is the first (first!) time that I've received a phone call here, so I assumed it was Jennifer. After smalltalk, including "yeah, I just removed a rat sized wad of hair from the shower," I was all, "so do we need to meet face to face, or can we meet over the phone?"

"Um, remember I live in Houston."

!!!!! um um um um um, "Hi Maraiah!"

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What's awesome to hear is how she's going through such great personal growth. It might mean (the beginning of) the end of her four year relationship, since he is apparently choosing not to grow as well. It's actually a bit scary to me; I get a sense that he has the patience of someone who might obsessively focus on her (read stalk) if she breaks up.

But I don't know him as well as she does, and she's a smart girl, who thinks carefully about her actions and how'll they'll affect her future.

She and Sarah are going to embark on a long roadtrip, hopefully an ultimate roadtrip together. Ultimate because they would each choose to leave their kids/dogs with parental units during the adventure.

She mentioned that I hadn't posted anything to my journal in 2 days, and that she found my site rather addicting and missed her daily fix of my writing. Flattering that she said I write well. Told her that I was considering putting a way for people to post comments to my entries, but that I would not allow comments to comments on my site. Fuck all that.

Maraiah was all, "oh my gosh" or something when I mentioned UUism as my youth group work. That's what came up when she took a test on what religion she was. That and something Buddhism. Not quite as accessible as UUism.

We talked about Sarah some, and how we both want the best for her, though sometimes it seems that Sarah is unwilling to consider putting herself first. She almost certainly won't put herself in front of her girls, but she doesn't think of herself before *anyone*, it seems to me.

I was going to tell her a confusing bit about The Ring, but she asked that I not tell her before she goes to see it so we can discuss it.

I told her I was thankful for our relationship since we've never gotten romantically involved (although we've talked about it). That makes it easier for me to be comfortable yammering with her about anything and everything now.