2001-03-26 - 09:39 a.m.
Dizziness and strange dreams

Answer to Friday's $64,000 question: B. Juneau. Today's Q is at entry's end.

I totally forgot that I was supposed to start going around and measuring buildings, and wore my favorite skirt instead of jeans. Silly me, am I supposed to know when Spring Break is when I don't get to take the week off anymore? *sigh* I guess I'll wait until tomorrow. That'll be better anyway ... I can arrange for a helper if I have a day's notice. (Like I'm really going to wield a 100-foot measuring tape by myself!)

It's just as well that I forgot. The weather's been miserable and my sinuses decided to act up today. Just the left side of my head is clogged, and that's it. I'd be okay with that, except for the fact that it throws off my balance. I've been feeling dizzy pretty much all morning, since I got up at 6am, and it's not really getting better. Maybe I can go home at lunch.

I had a strange dream last night. Well, I usually have strange dreams, but they're getting stranger. It used to be that I'd dream of strange worlds and fantastic places filled with people I knew who didn't exist in real life. Heck, I wasn't even really me in most of them, I was somebody different. Lately, they've shifted towards more of a real-world focus, and people I know even show up in them sometimes. But it's different. Now, I usually realize I'm dreaming before the dream is even half-done ... but I have no urge to wake up or alter things.

Last night, for example, I dreamed I was going into a Rite-Aid to pick up a few things. I was walking around towards the back of the store and ran into someone I just saw the other day ... the guy I got this job from ... and we started making small talk. The conversation made perfect sense, not the usual dream garbage; he asked about my mom's osteoporosis, I asked about his wife and daughter, he invited me to come visit them soon. I kept going, and started walking across the back of the store looking up the aisles.

I started snickering to myself about how I tend to distort certain things in dreams, and wondering why I put the toilet paper and the mayonnaise in a little corner together, and why there were entire aisles of spicy dinner foods. I crossed the clothes and cosmetic aisles and came to the fabric corner, and stared at the cutting table, thinking, Silly girl, that isn't big enough for them to cut fabric on! Then I looked off to the left, and Lo, the table extended several yards in that direction with all the cutting space you could wish for.

I giggled some more, and walked to the front, where I found that only two checkouts were open. There were long, long lines. A man standing next to me walked forward and asked why there weren't any forms to complain about the customer service. Then, the manager got on the bullhorn, and told us they were closing out the store so everything was 30% off sale price, but only if we were willing to sit through the line, since all the other checkers had been fired. So I clutched the two dresses I was suddenly holding, wondered to myself if they were really necessary, decided I needed new dress clothes, and went and sat on the floor at the end of the line.

That's about where my brother woke me up. Perhaps it doesn't seem odd to you; but it does to me. If I knew I was dreaming the whole time, why continue through it without doing anything to make it more interesting or fun? And why did it keep going? Most times before when I became conscious I was dreaming, I became too awake for it to keep flowing along of its own accord. *shrug* Wierd.

Anyway. I guess I don't have much to say today, the dizziness is throwing me off. Maybe I'll post again later. Until then, here's today's question: (I'm skipping the weekend Q).

[For $250,000]: Where can the "Maxwell Gap" be found?

A. Mars
B. The asteroid belt
C. Halley's comet
D. Saturn's rings