Entries this day: Dream Lately

Dream

10:19am IST Wednesday 09 November 2005

I was a soldier without guidelines, in a driving school where some students had just finished their course. Other people were there, but since the driving school instructors didn't know them as students, I requested their passports so I could photocopy them. They were like, "why do you need our passports?" and I was like, "I just want to photocopy them so we know who was here."

I wouldn't let them out of the building without handing over their passports, and since I was the one with the power, they had to oblige.

Their passports were not little books, but buttons with various slogans and little knickknacks attached. I received all four passport buttons, and had to take them apart and find the actual photo parts so I could put them in the photocopier and properly photocopy them. In order to conserve paper, I wanted to photocopy them all at once, which required that I take apart all their buttons at the same time.

The workspace where I was doing this disassembly was messy; I tried putting all the button pieces in little piles and carefully remembering what was whose and which went where and in what order, but the whole mess just got worse and worse to the point that I couldn't keep track of everything. I couldn't find all the pieces, but I didn't want to just be like, "sorry," and give them back a pile of rubbish; I had taken their passports on good faith that I would give them back.

I got really flustered at not knowing what to do, and was really quick to wake up when I realized it was a dream.

wow. what a relief. I blessed the passport holders of my dream and trusted they had all their bits and bobs back intact.

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I was carrying a huge fake gun through an exit, and had to prove it was fake. I threw it on the ground so the hollow plastic clatter could be heard, but it sounded like a real gun. Oops. I still knew it was fake, so I told the guy he could inspect it. He leveled the gun at my face and pulled the trigger. I made a bullet-catching hand gesture, then ate the air bullet. Satisfied at its disauthenticity, he gave me the gun back and I walked out.

Lately

12:09pm IST Wednesday 09 November 2005

I just want to capture the essence of the last couple of days. I've been chillin' in the Faisal, not wanting to spend much money, enjoying being online, sleeping, folding origami.. Basically just on vacation away from the insanity so easily available outside.

I haven't heard from Niveen in a couple days (nor have I tried to contact her recently) but I've only got a week left before I go back to Japan.

Today I'm going to visit Rami at PalVision, presumably to write something for him. Tomorrow Rami and I are going for an overnight adventure in Bethlehem.

Oh little town of Bethlehem, I'll get to see you soon.

I've been hanging out with Ben in our little cozy internet cafe of a table in the middle of this dorm style room with 10 bunks. We have one cable coming in through the window above the door feeding TCP/IP to one of our machines, which in turn broadcasts a wireless signal the other machine can use.

Sweet.