Monday, October 6, 2003
Last night I dreamt I went to a theater and watched a B movie from (I think) the 1960s. The final scene was a blond-haired woman filmed from a slight distance. She was wearing a bathing suit and standing in (I think) water. She screamed a disturbingly loud shriek, and her face was painted with a giant mouth in the same expression as her scream. Since she was filmed from afar, it was quite convincing and, I thought, of artistic merit. After the film, I browsed in the lobby as people filed out. Somehow glue was featured prominently in the film, and consequently glue was for sale on the tables in the lobby. It was the flat bottle with the orange, pointy tip style of glue. I bought one, even though I didn't need any glue. In a separate dream my childhood dog Clark had run away and someone found him and brought him home and I took him by the collar and found a basket for him to lie in. He was rambuntious, as always, but also cold—shivering. I looked around for a blanket, and that's when I woke up.—Breakfast at home with Patrick: "homemade" sausage and egg on english muffins. Went back and put in dreams I had over the weekend. Helped Joel with an attachment he couldn't open because it had no file extension (it was a Word document). Helped Chris reconfigure his IP settings for his new laptop. Got a call from Mike R—they begin work tomorrow morning. Confirmed that fixes for Q828750 were installed for all computers. (I don't trust Windows Update after I confirmed that it didn't install some updates as expected.) Made adjustments to the minority students mailing list for Cindy. Made live the MPH changes for Chris. Prepared the MPH e-mail addresses that we had collected for notification. Made a small change to a graphic in the calendar section. Submitted my timesheet for last month. Created an archive document of VPN issues. Worked more on VPN documentation. Some things I ordered for home had arrived: GP 1800 AA batteries from Thomas Distributing and ink jet cartridges for our Epson CX5200—black is almost out. Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp chow mein. From the tropics of Hawai'i, Chris De Lay sends e-mail saying he now has a blog! Cool!