So today had been pretty much one of the most craptastic days in awhile. We’ve been having all sorts of issues with Speedy for the last week, the worst symptom being that she is running around the house barking herself to sleep every night. We put the gate up over the bedroom door to keep her in the bedroom and hopefully accelerate the process of her getting bored and going to sleep. This moment is marked by her “sigh of capitulation”: the barking turns into whining, and the whining stop with a huge sigh and she plops down and goes to sleep. Unfortunately, last night, there was no sigh of capitulation, so we finally gave in and opened the gate. We are very easily manipulated late at night, and she knows it. We need to fix that.
Anyway, she runs around, barks a little bit, comes back into the bedroom, and goes to sleep at around 2:20 AM. Little did we know that she was on a march of destruction. She gnawed on some of lpk’s shoes and, but nothing too bad; she saved the real destruction for me.
I got a new man-purse yesterday for toting around gadgets and stuff, and I put my digicam, ipod, and gps into it. She decides to pull it down, get stuff out, and use them as chew toys. My digicam is salvageable, it only received some damage to the viewfinder, which I never use. My gps is completely destroyed, but luckily it’s within 90 days of purchase on my American Express, so they’ll refund the purchase price for me. Don’t leave home without it!
Anyway, I left for school feeling all crappy, and after a minute of walking, it starts raining. I get to the bus stop, and my bus which normally takes 5 minutes takes 20, while I’m standing in the rain. By the time I got to class 15 minutes late, I’m completely soaked. Class was actually awesome, so that was good. After class I realized I forgot my power adaptor and had to come back home for it. Then I had to go back to school for journal club, and I came home after that. At that point, I decided to write off the day, go to sleep, and hopefully wake up and salvage what was left of it.
And that brings me to the awesomest dream ever. This dream was a throwback to dreams I had as a little kid. I’d be chased by a mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex across the school playground, and there would be do government agents or something behind it’s red glass eyes trying to decide how they were going to kill me. My dream today was updated a bit for modern times:
It started at an amusement park that was a cross between Jurassic Park and Busch Gardens (or at least the Busch Gardens I remember from nearly 15 years ago). The dinosaurs decide to attack, like dinosaurs are wont to do, and there’s total pandemonium. Everybody’s running around trying to save themselves, and we (I don’t recall exactly who “we” is), are using this parking garage type structure for shelter. Every now and then a pterodactyl pokes it’s face or claws in, or a Tyrannosaurus Rex chomps off a piece of the building. We have a bunch of near misses and watch a lot of people die when the US Military finally shows up. They parachute in these enormous robotic dinosaurs designed to attack the real dinosaurs and a battle begins. It’s reminiscent of the AT-AT battle scenes from Star Wars. All of a sudden, a gruff voice behind me yells for them to call off the robotic dinosaurs because they won’t work. That voice belongs to Jack Bauer.
And now you see why this is the awesomest dream ever. Jack Bauer starts yelling at the commanding officer that he needs to call of his robotic dinosaurs, because they will only make the situation worse. Of course, people in power never listen to Jack Bauer, so he goes off to resolve the situation himself. In what was obviously poor judgement on our part, we go with him: People that tag along with Jack Bauer always die. Unfortunately, my recollection of the dream gets spotty at this point. The last thing I can remember happening is that we’re on a bus being chased by a T-Rex (almost exactly like the chase scene from Jurassic Park, except with a bus). Some military is on board, and tried all sorts of weapons against the T-Rex with no effect. Finally Jack Bauer breaks a back window of the bus, takes aim, and brings the T-Rex down with one shot. Apparently Jack Bauer is an expert of dinosaur anatomy.
I woke up around this point completely refreshed and in much better spirits. Once again, Jack Bauer saves the day.
whoa, i am so jealous of your dream. it sounds like it was so awesomecore. i’ve been obsessed with dinosaurs since i was little, so i’m way envious of the time you spent with a) dinosaurs and b) jack bauer. though, i found out that kiefer in real life is a raging republican. but that’s another day’s post!