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Dream

5am ish

First dream

I had watched the video before but apparently not very closely; this time I more carefully watched the the video made in a car of Hethre, Meg, and Kate, with Susie driving. In the back seat, the girls performed music / poetry / heartfelt story telling, and the camera was sitting in the front passenger seat, alternately watching them and watching Susie's reaction while she drove. The girls poured their hearts into their performances; I was moved to tears.

9:52am JST Monday 24 May 2004

Second dream

Sam Malone was broadcasting from outside on a makeshift soccer field, and pulled together a final call-in contest for the last pairs of tickets to some super popular show. The callers had to simply recite some phrase like, "KRBE has supplied the most S tickets of any station," and if they said the phrase correctly on the first try, they got the tickets, and if they didn't, they didn't. I had been in Japan, and hadn't heard the phrase before, but it sounded wrong, like the acronym didn't stand for the right words, so I raised my hand and was like, "hey Sam; the acronym isn't right" or something, and he was like, "yeah it is," and it turned out (due to words changing in dreams,) he was right and I was wrong (but I didn't catch that I was dreaming).

I was on the sidelines as the soccer game started, and I cheered the kids playing. One kicked a shot that almost made it into the goal where Sam Malone was goalie, but the ball went over the net goal. After a bit, the ball went out of bounds near me, and a player ran off the field and tagged me into the game as a sub. I grabbed the ball and threw it back into the game (both feet on the ground, two hands over my head) and then joined the fun. I didn't know which team he had been on, and if I had known, I wouldn't have known which direction his team was going anyway, so I just kicked the ball toward the masses of players to let them play and sort out such details. Eventually there came a point where it was important to know, so I stopped the game to ask, but no one could give me a clear answer, so I rephrased my questions. I asked one player which way she was trying to go, and then asked the masses who was on her team. This got a better answer, but when I wanted to kick there was a big tall net in front of me, over which I had to kick the ball (for some reason around was not an option), but I was like, "bollocks"(*) and kicked the ball to one side where it could be kicked past that net. There were several such obstacles on the field now, and when we finally got the ball down to the other goal, the dog (german shepherd, I think) caught the ball with a bag in its teeth and then brought the ball out onto the field where I was like, "good dog! drop it, drop it" until s/he let go. We were setting up for another kick or something and I woke up.

(*) I didn't actually say "bollocks" (or anything) in my dream, but just now I was going to write "fuck kicking the ball over the net" and decided not to use the word "fuck." This is the first time I've ever used "bollocks," a word I've picked up from the Brits over here.

Ma

10:31am JST Monday 24 May 2004

From my mom's husband Jon:

Live Oak UU votes to add Rev. Kathleen Ellis to ministry

Members of Live Oak UU Church, Austin, Texas, at a congregational meeting on 
May 23, voted "overwhelmingly" to accept the recommendation of the Search 
Committee to hire the Rev. Kathleen Ellis as additional minister, effective July 
1st, 2004.

Jon Montgomery

The announcement from my mom:

	From: 	  my mom
	Subject:  success!
	Date: 	  2004 May 23 Sunday 8:10:39 AM JST

Live Oak UU Church voted 90 plus to 1 to call me as
their second minister!

The one vote against amuses me--will keep me humble!

Now the fun begins! I'm still not sure whether I begin
officially July 1 or June 1 (as some were hoping), but
I have preliminary orientation to do anyway--learning
about the church building, getting keys, moving into
an office, etc. I might go up once a week for regular
office hours, or by appointment. We'll see!

Love to all,

KE/Ma/Mom

Yay, Ma!!!!

PB slight update

12:44pm JST Monday 24 May 2004

仁美 just called me; she has been on PB! She said it was interesting, but she wouldn't want to go again, but she has lots of pictures from around the world to show me. It's the desire for pictures from around the world of my own that will send me on this boat no matter what.

ワッ　見たい！

italian

1:34am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

Went to a pretty nice Italian restaurant with Jimmy tonight. He and I talked about my writing and different stories; I told him an hour long version of the pink elephant joke, and 1 minute versions of the kid who loved to do dishes, the green golf ball joke, and 7 brothers and 7 sisters joke. Ten minute version of the koosh joke.

All this led to a discussion about all the stories in my brain, and how to most effectively get them written. Voice recognition software.

In a ramble about whether it's better to spend time redoing my website to hold all this new material, or if it's better to buy new software to redo my website, I decided it was better to just write, make some dollars, and then use that money to mess with my site.

naturallyspeaking

1:33am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

According to David Pogue (as of March 2004), the coolest voice transcription software is NaturallySpeaking. I'm looking into buy that and have found a recorder with the software bundled for about $120 including shipping to a US address. The only detail is I would have to buy a computer that runs windows to use it. Hmmm.