Tuesday, February 18, 2003
I dreamt last night that I looked up to the night sky and saw clouds moving across the sky. At least I thought they were clouds at first, but they moved too quickly to be clouds. The shapes grew more distinct and I could see that they were thousands of white specks, all drifting en masse. They became larger, and I could see large objects like spaceships except they floated like helium balloons, and they were shaped like giant stormtroopers from Star Wars. The ships gently bounced into the mountains, then stopped. I looked around me, and others were observing their arrival. There was a sense of dark danger. Evil was coming for us, and we had to prepare for it. We, too, were in the mountains, and it was snowing. I ran to the mouth of a cave I sensed to be our base. Inside I found our troops, but they were all frozen in standing positions. Their outfits were all white with glitter-silver helmets. I ran up to one man who looked like he was in charge, but he was immobile and I could not revive him from whatever instant sleep had overtaken him. The people were stunned not with frozen water, but with some other kind of power that was not visible. I knew that if I went deeper into the cave I would find more of our people, but the other end of the cave was many days' journey and I didn't know if they, too, would be frozen. Made Web changes for Internet computer requirements loans, stylesheet tweaks to account for dl and dd and dt tags, Web developer supervisor's guide, style guide, accessibility, accessible web development. Took out the template I created on Friday because it didn't work well on any of the Mac browsers. Made news updates about the importance of keeping anti-virus software current. Updated the student calendar. Lunch with Joel and Ena at Einstein's. It was my first time having lunch there. It's a non-profit for teaching people job skills—cool. We talked about Joe Millionaire, Ana Mandara, the anti-war protest on Sunday. Got a cold sore. Dinner at home with Patrick: snow peas with shrimp stir-fry. I went to bed early. Edited Candy's Viagra article.