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  • Dream: Back to School!

    I had one of these dreams, where my old college was combined with my old middle school and the local high school. (I seem to have a lot of these…)

    And since I didn’t actually have to switch schools when migrating to college (either I went to high school here or I skipped it entirely somehow), I managed to keep my old locker. And was one of the few college students here who had a locker. >:D I used it store my books and other stuff.

    (Although several times, I forgot I even had it, so when I couldn’t find my book because it was in said locker, I panicked and bought another book, when…yeah.)

    One day, I was late for math. I couldn’t find my book, and asked Mr. Giantpaper if he knew where it was. He went to see if I left it in me car, and went to check my locker. And since I was late, I had trouble opening the lock (as in, I remembered the combination, but kept missing the second number and had to start over about two or three times). Eventually, I got fed up and just spun it around all crazy like, angrily, until it opened on its own. Surprised, I opened the door and checked the contents to make sure this was indeed my locker. Yup, it had all my Spanish books from the previous semester (two of them were the same exact one written by my teacher and the third had a holographic cover that was written by Shigeru Miyamoto).

    I didn’t find my math book, so I went to the parking lot by the nearby park to see if it was in my car. I saw my float I made for the upcoming Christmas parade that was starting soon. It was a cheap one, with an oversized cardboard ornament shaped like a Christmas tree propped onto it, covered with lights. I got inside and drove it to the school entrance, when I changed my mind, thinking ‘nah, this is stupid’, and drove it back to the parking lot.

    The end.

  • A Potentially Awkward Gender Reveal Dream

    In this one, I had a doctor appointment. The doctor was a pretty female doctor, who for some reason, thought I was a guy and kept flirting with me. O.o (Which also weirded me out, because while I know there are people whose genders tend to be ambiguous, I thought it was pretty obvious I was a girl.)

    Just before the exam, I needed to take a shower, according to office policy,  since I haven’t taken one in a few days. The doctor, still thinking I was a he led me to the men’s showers. It was a building on someone’s lawn, and the pastor from our church was giving a sermon across the street. I looked around and saw several rolls of towels on a metal rack and took one. Then I remembered that I was in the wrong shower and left.

    The female shower area was much more well-furnished, purple, orange and green walls and matching armchairs. The towels (also in rolls) were on this shiny, wooden table. In the actual shower, I noticed that the building was a lot smaller than I remembered (only about…two feet tall). It was also inflatable, as opposed to being made of concrete–so inflated that the walls took up most of the interior. Tired of being squished in there, I tried to use dream magic to either make me think the building was larger or that I was a lot smaller. It worked for a little while after a few minutes, then slowly started to shrink again.

    I became fed up and busted  through the roof and yelled about how it felt like being in a dollhouse in here (with extra hamminess for effect). Then I grabbed one of the shower items, turned and left. Then had to turn around when I remembered I left my stuff in front of the building.

    The end.

  • ThinkMac

    I think it would be cool to install Mac OS X on a ThinkPad*, so you could have a mobile Hackintosh! This, combined with the prospect of Hackintoshes and Linux going mainstream (not that it’s ever been announced yet, that I know of…), will force people to disassociate the operating system from the hardware.

    *Why a ThinkPad? Macs tend to be seen as sleek, minimal gray/white computers with rounded corners (except for the Blackbooks, which are…black), while ThinkPads are normally black, boxy and rectangular (except for the Edge series, which are slim and rounded). In other words, it would be funny. >:D

    Video gamer: “This game runs on PC!”
    Linux user: “…It does not run on my PC.”
    Video gamer: “>.> It runs on Windows.”

    (Not to mention when Steam made its debut on Mac OS X, tons of people were talking about “Mac n00bs” on Steam, when in fact, a lot of the Mac users had been using Steam and playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 for a while now, running it on a Windows partition installed on their Macs.)

    (Also, I think you could install some Linux distros like Ubuntu on a Mac.)

  • Dream: Mission: Shower

    Jeidai, me, my family and Jeidai’s family were on a bus, visiting relatives in Sacremento, when I realized I needed to take a shower. Luckily! There was a shower in the back! 😀

    Ummm…turns out…the back didn’t offer a lot of privacy (there were windows everywhere). And when we reached a bus stop, people got into the back area, where I wanted to shower. o.o So much for that plan.

    I knew I had to get back to everyone else before we end up getting separated, because I knew if I did, I would end up at an alternate version of the school after it was taken over by Disneyland and abandoned! :O

    (Luckily I managed join up with everyone. The end. :D)