February 15, 2008

I dreamt that I lived in Casa Sanchez, an apartment building. Through the heating ducts I heard Tori Amos call out for Juan (Matthew’s co-worker): “Juan, it’s Tori."

Then I could hear a cat walking on a piano in the background.

Then Tori said, "Let me know if you have any more of that yummy [some yummy food].”

I said into the heating grate, “Hi Tori, I have some chocolate Haagen Dazs ice cream if you’re interested.

February 14, 2008

Cane Toads

I was being teased by a bully (I think I was a teenage boy). We were in the grass, and he was bigger than me, and there was a ball that he was kicking around like a soccer ball, challenging me to play with him while he was teasing me about not being good. We played for a while. 

Then I noticed there was something weird in the grass. It was standing up like a thin brick. When I looked closely, I saw it was a dark but pearlescent toad. Ugly. I didn’t tell the bully. But then I noticed other ones too. I finally told him, and he was grossed out too. We stopped playing (by then it was the back yard of the house I grew up in). 

Then I wasn’t a teenage boy, I was a teenage girl. The bully was still the bully though, but I was in love with him, even though he was popular and I was a geek. After years of bullying me, we had become close, and I started to feel like he was falling in love with me too. There was a tenderness. I felt that I was unattractive but that he saw my inner beauty. 

Then I was myself and was watching a TV show at the house I grew up in about cane toads. I said to my mom, “Mom, guess what you have in your back yard? Cane toads.” She was mad and disgusted and thought that she must have had them because either Sandy or I brought them there. I was like “Why the hell would we do that?” But she was like, “Well how the hell else would they get there?” And I was like, “Well one thing is for sure you have to get that yard taken care of it’s disgusting.” (It was overgrown and had jagged garbage and dead grass.)

February 13, 2008

Traveling the World with a Female Friend

I dreamt I was traveling a lot, to each continent, with someone else. I don’t remember who. A woman I knew. Maybe Linda Moody. We were going to go to each continent. We were trying to decide a basic game plan. Which continent first, then next . . . We thought that within each continent, we would “wing it.” I saw some great places (maybe Thailand, not sure) . . . lovely beaches. I had some travel problems in Belarus or former USSR country; got off the bus/train early.

Joshua’s Home

I went to see Joshua Ong. He lived in this amazing place. Outside of his place were three huge boats stacked like bunk beds, and each boat had a large bed with a type of cloth-chain seat belt so the person would not fall out of it. Joshua said that worker/builders slept there as part of their contract. Inside Joshua’s place it was messy and had tacky furniture but I still liked it. There was a young (early 20s) mentally disabled blond man that was hanging out at his place; he liked Joshua and apparently hung out at his place a lot. The man and I talked for a bit; I don’t remember what we talked about.

The Ballet with Scott M.

I was going to the ballet in SF with Scott M., this guy I knew growing up who was a hell of a lot like Napolean Dynamite. I was telling Scott that I might take someone else, either this guy I used to date (can’t remember who) or someone we knew from high school (can’t remember who) or that we would meet with Paul S. while in San Jose. Scott  was a little reluctant about taking someone we knew from high school because he didn’t want to be teased by them about going on a date with me. Scott showed me his car; it was the same car from high school but was totally decked out on the inside, all new seats, a place to sleep, lots of cool bells and whistles, very high tech in his crappy sedan.

Matthew’s Weird Outfit

Matthew came back from a business lunch and was on the phone on the couch and I noticed he was wearing this weird wet-suit like outfit that was baby blue with a zipper all the way up the front. I was trying to ask his why the hell he was wearing that but he was on the phone and made a gesture like it was no big deal.