I've been feeling really weirdly sleepy all day (not just sleepy, but like, zombie-like), and I've been napping on and off all day long and finally it feels like it wore off. It may have been the Claritin I took last night or something, even though it says non-drowsy. Or maybe I just needed a sleep day. But anyway, I kept having the weirdest dreams!

  Now, we have a not-so-bad-but-still-not-great bug problem. No matter how clean I keep this place, they still get in. Right before I went to bed last night, I think I discovered where the ones in my bathroom are coming from -- there are some big gaps right underneath the window sill, which I never would have seen if I wasn't cleaning the tub. :P So I'm sure that influenced my dream.

  The first one I can remember is that I opened my blinds because I wanted to open my window and, between the glass and the screen, there were tons of ants and black widow spiders. I went outside to kill them with spray but like, the whole outside of the house was covered in all sorts of bugs -- especially bees and wasps. It was really terrible. On the bright side, though, I discovered that our house apparently had two pools, a hot tub, and an unattached bungalow. Don't know how I didn't notice before, lol.

  Another dream I had was that I was at my mom and dad's house and I had a Xerox machine out in the front yard. Go figure... anyway, I went off down some rapids or something for a bit and came back to discover that my Xerox was gone. I discovered it a few houses down on a neighbor's yard. Apparently they stole everything that we ever put out in the yard and kept it. They felt this was appropriate because we had left things out there for over thirty minutes. I found a whole bunch of childhood toys and books that I had thought were lost, UPS packages, and yard tools out in their stash. It was just really strange. My parents were engaging in a screaming match with these psychos while I was discovering lost childhood treasures. And getting my effin' Xerox back, man.

  They weren't really that interesting but they were like the first dreams I've had in a really long time. For some reason I don't dream that much at all anymore. I think it's because school and work has sucked out all my creativity -- I don't draw or write anymore either. :/ The one about all the bugs had me seriously freaked out when I woke up, but I was still in zombie mode so I was like... way more freaked out by it then I should have been because I was still like, half-asleep and thought it was real.

  I feel bad 'cause I had yesterday off, and I really took the day off... I mean, I just played video games all day, no schoolwork, no work for Sociology or the Pepper Center, and I didn't really work on any "personal projects" either, and then Amanda K and I just hung out and watched stuff on the internet for awhile. It was nice. Every so often it's nice to have just a day off. However, I was thinking, "it's okay, I don't have to go to work till 5 on Saturday so I can do stuff then," but then I slept the day away. I will have to bust my butt tomorrow. D:

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  I had a dream last night that I got a baby camel for my birthday. It was the best dream. It was the cutest baby camel. I can't remember what I named it, but it got up on the beds and all over the furniture and I was like "hey! down! bad camel!"

  Seriously, I have wanted a camel since forever. I want a camel more than a lot of things.

TODAY'S GOAL: Get as much of today's school reading done at work as possible! Muwahahahaha! Unfortunately this does not mean being bad, this just means bustling a bit more than usual and hoping I don't get many customers, lol. It won't happen. STILL WE CAN HOPE.

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  I had this totally amazing dream last night that me and all my friends from college (Amanda N., Krysti, John, Katie, Josh) were all playing this game where we had to stop American development in the west or something. You had different opportunities to stop it, but our major big one was stopping the railroad from being built. There was a box on the side of the mountain that was filled with like railroad ties and shit, and we had to stop this one guy from getting it.

  I don't really remember what happened but we had a big shootout on top of the mountain and got totally pwned and the guy got his box (curses! the west has been won!) buuuut I did totally ride around on a velociraptor.

  Had another dream that I was kept in a lab with a bunch of other girls and even our bowls of cereal had bars on them, but I turned into an octopus and escaped into the ocean. Haha!

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  I had a hard time sleeping last night. And do you know why?

  It was because of T-rex. :/

  I kept dreaming a T-rex was after me, and every time I woke up I would be like "phew, that's over," but then I'd go back to sleep and it was all t-rex t-rex t-rex t-rex. It was most uncool.

  When the dream started out, I was a young, Latino, hat-less Alan Grant (so... not really Alan Grant at all then) and I actually worked on Isla Nublar, and then John Hammond was like "aw shit you guys, I accidentally let all the dinosaurs out, have fun with that, peace out." Dream was thankfully void of velociraptors this time, but T-rex kept showing up and my/psuedo-Dr. Grant's reaction was to hide under a blanket and hope T-rex wouldn't realize that there was a delicious person under there.

  So I'd wake up, shake it off, and then when I'd close my eyes again I'd have to go through it all over again. Oh, and the T-rexes kept multiplying, so there were always more each time. And even though T-rex is way too big to actually get inside a house, they always managed to anyways, and I would hide under a blanket every time and hope they would overlook me.

  Eventually I was me again, and I was in my house, and mom was like "you're an idiot for hiding under a blanket in the house; next time it comes by you should go out the front door to trick them, and hide in the backyard, and then come around and get back in the house when they start to look in the backyard." WORST PLAN EVER MOM, THANKS. But anyway I did, I ran outside to the backyard and there was a ziggurat out there, so we were like, hey, let's go up to the top, awesome, we'll be safe up there, but duh, T-REXES CLIMB STAIRS so we were totally screwed.

  Hopefully tomorrow night will be blessedly lacking in T-rex.

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  Man, I slept in and I didn't intend to, since I need to wrap up my assignments before I have to go to work, but I was having the most awesome dream.

  I dreamt that Krysti and I flew to China and when we went to rent a car, my car was miraculously there and so we had an awesome road trip across China to the Himalayas (of course the roads were all in pristine condition; it's my dang dream after all and if I want a beautiful road trip to the Himalayas I'm going to get one).

  It was worth sleeping in for.

EDIT @ 11AM Dang, I fell back asleep and I have work in an hour... I require coffee input...

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  Of course, here I am, trying to finish all my assignments on my last day off, especially the one due on Friday, and Blackboard decides that it's a good day to go down (now that I'm in online classes, Blackboard is where it's all at. I NEED IT).

  Anyway, last night I had a pretty sweet dream that Krysti and I visited Amanda N. in California, except Amanda lived in San Francisco and not Los Angeles. On the way back, we decided to take a really long road trip instead of coming straight back. It was pretty sweet but I was so busy getting my ipod to play the perfect road trip playlist that I got us lost a lot. Oh, and I could fly. :D

  Obviously all these dreams about hanging with Amanda N and Krysti are trying to tell me something...!

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• I had this dream last night that Amanda N. and Krysti and I all went to Austria to go skiing. We lived in a motorhome. It was pretty sweet, except that apparently IN THE AUSTRIA IN MY MIND there are horrible demon wasps. So the skiing is great but the bugs will KILL YOU.



• Maria called me in to work today but she called me early enough that I've been able to get most of the cleaning I had planned for today done. Rock on! I'm feeling pretty accomplished. 5 hours at work won't be so bad (hoping I'll be able to extricate myself properly at 5) and then I can just go to Target and get that over with, and then still have enough time to do the rest of the cleaning when I get home.



• Buster threw up all over my comforter this morning. Right after he ate, too, so it was all tuna-y. I was petting him and he was like purr purr purr and then I went out to the kitchen to make breakfast and come back and he's gone but has left this long path of tuna goo all down the side of my comforter and pooling on the carpet. THANK YOU BUSTER, THAT WAS TRULY A JOY TO CLEAN UP. And now when I get home from work I have to add "wash comforter" to my list. DAMMIT.



• CAFE IS OPEN! The owners came into Staples last night to ask about printing prices, and they were like "yeah we're totally open." They are now located at the abandoned Burger King at the Miracle City Mall.



• I get to hang out with Sara B tomorrow! I haven't seen her in eons! We're going to play with dolls. X3

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  I had a really bad dream last night about work. That's what I get for doing my school reading before bed, because the copy center was in a public library. Instead of my copy center I was basically in a computer lab. When I got there, they had already pulled Sierra off to office supplies and so I had to work alone. I wasn't able to do any jobs because as soon as I'd turn around, people would get on my computers and I'd have to shoo them away, and then as soon as I'd got them out, more people had settled down at the computers and using them to look at porn / download music / everything else you're not supposed to do on public computers. My line was getting bigger and bigger and people were yelling and screaming at me. I called the managers to ask if Sierra could come back over and they were really disappointed that I couldn't handle it myself, and Sierra was really pissed off at me.

  It was a stupid dream but it made me wake up grumpy and not looking forward to work. 2 days down, 4 to go.

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  Last night I had a dream that I was being executed for something. Don't know what. "I" was actually a pretty fug lookin' dude. They (??) let me choose how I wanted to go, and I was like, "Well gee I heard decapitation isn't so bad." Just as they were about to do it, I said "Tell my wife and kids I love them!" (lol whut) and then they totally cut my head off. I couldn't feel it in the dream, just numbness and a strange pressure, and I thought, "So this is it; I'm actually dying--" and I fuckin' WOKE UP.

  Despite the fact that this took place in the Staples copy center and that the "chopping block" was the register change drawer, it was actually really awful and scary. Nothing like being woken up at 3:00 AM and being reminded of your own mortality.

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  WTF, I had so many weird dreams tonight. They all kind of merged into each other and it was weird.

• I had a plain ol' Staples dream where Sierra and I were working and this lady had this really annoying order, and she wanted impossible things like 24 x 36 cardstock prints. She yelled at us a lot.



• Krysti and I went on vacation in Canada, except we were in Washington and I kept sneaking across the border. And Canada for some reason was like an arctic wasteland, which I thought was totally awesome and I suppose that's part of the reason I kept sneaking across the border?



• Krysti and I helped angry nerds trash an entire library. Krysti had a club. Like seriously. I was like WTF KRYSTI. D: And she was like "*sigh* Come on, you wanted books didn't you?" and so we trashed a library and stole library books. We were at a college, and when we got outside the library the entire school was rioting and beating up the university president and I was like "I wanted a distraction but this is a little too much! Er, thanks though, Krysti!" Krysti fought the power.



• We were at this like, tropical island paradise, and Sierra was there. I was like, "Sierra, come kayak with me." She was like, "No," and I was like "Yes, you're kayaking with me," and she was like "Fine, but I get the front of the kayak." "No, I get the front." So we fought over that and it was lame, and it turned out that the "kayak" was just a bunch of innertubes lashed together. And I was naked. And I was like "WOOOOOOH NAKED." But then this Indian guy on the beach with his family started screaming at me, so I made myself a bikini of mud. >.> Oh, and also the beach had Icee dispensers. In the water. You could just paddle up to them and fill your cup with however many flavors of never-ending Icee goodness. Also there were a lot of humpback whales, and one accidentally beached itself and a T-Rex started eating it. I was like "Woah, hey, a T-Rex is attacking that humpback whale," and my mom was like, "There's no such thing as T-Rex, Amanda." BUT I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW, MOM! *sips Icee nakedly* ... Then for the rest of the dream I was too afraid to get out of my innertube and into the water because, you know, submersible T-Rex I guess, so I just kept playing in the kiddie pools and fixing my mud bikini. And gorging myself on Icees.

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  I forgot to mention this in my post last night, but this was particularly WTF:

Phone: Ring ring, ring ring.
Other end: *picks up and shrieks in my ear* STAAPPPPLES!!!!!!!
Me: ... um. Hi, this is Amanda from the Staples Copy & Print Center, I'm calling for --?
Other end: Yeah, what do you want...?
Me: UM. She put in an order on Friday and I just wanted to let her know that it's ready.
Other end: I'll tell her. *hangs up*

  WHY DID YOU SCREAM IN MY EAR AND THEN BE A DOUCHEBAG ABOUT IT. WHY.

  Also, after reading The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World last night (warning for those who are afraid of bugs to begin with, or those who are very fond of bees -- I'm looking at you, enismirdal), I had a dream about those Japanese Giant Hornets last night, except they were the size of wolves and made of cheese. They came after me but at the last moment I was saved by Hillary Clinton, who distracted them with a speech. (Then I joined a group of sorority girls who planned to cross into Mexico and walk to Cancun, but they got stopped at the border because of their muffintops and I had to call Mrs. S to pick me up.) I wish I was joking, but at least I didn't dream about Staples!

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  I'm really not feeling in the Thanksgiving mood today at all. It's like 84 degrees outside, so that's not helping me feel very seasonal. I don't want to have to deal with relatives. I'm going to have to explain like 500 times over that I didn't get the library job, and then listen to the same job-hunting advice 500 times over ("You know Amanda, you have to dress nice! And smile!" *facepalm*). I really don't feel like dealing with that. :/ ... and I'm not even that hungry.

  I seem to have the most dreams when I wake up in the morning and go back to sleep, and I've been sleeping in a lot lately so I've been having way too many freaky dreams.

( This one is really gross, so cut for those who are sensitive to such things. )

  Also, no offense to anyone who makes voice posts, but for some reason they seriously fuck up my f-list like WOAH whenever someone does one. Like, the entire f-list just STOPS and I have to actually REMOVE that person from my f-list before I can see anything past that post. Does this happen to anyone else, or is it just my crappy homemade layout that's doing it?

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1. I had a dream the other night that I went to the Oscars and sat between Krysti and Mark Twain. Mark Twain kept yammering on the whole time and complaining, but it was okay because the Oscars were boring. Kirsten Dunst sang a song. I kept having to leave to go to the bathroom.



2. I have Eye of the North! I haven't played it yet, though, because...



3. Thanks to the advice of a friend of melancthe's, I WAS TREASURE HUNTING IN NIGHTFALL. Oh shit, I need to get more characters further into Nightfall, because I made 16 PLAT IN JUST AN HOUR OR TWO. I also ended up with a shit-ton of golds I ... don't really know what to do with besides hawk them on guildwars -- I have no idea how much I should be selling them for, though. I mostly got paragon shit, which I don't need 'cause I don't have a paragon and I don't really want one. I now have 35K in my Xunlai account, and it's been soooo long since I've had that much (stupid jewel-encrusted skirt and shoes). Slowly but surely I will make my way towards this, this (omg feaaatherrrs), this and this (although I'm STILL not sure what armor I want for my monk) -- in that order, methinks. STILL can't decide on a male Ele armor set that doesn't look really really STUPID. Before I was gonna go for that Vabbian pimp coat and gloves with different pants and shoes, but now with the Eye of the North stuff I'm not really so sure... ugh. Eldor will never get new clothes.



4. Ha ha, the girl I didn't like on America's Next Top Model was the first to go. Also, Tyra is still as loco as ever, but the no smoking rule is cool, so good for her for laying down the law.

Current Music: Guild Wars

Current Tags: dreams, games: guild wars, tv

  Well, it's August and, as if on cue, I had a bad dream about school. It's like a requirement that I must, apparently; I'm really amused that I had one of my dreams about being late to class when I'm... you know, graduated and all. In my dream, it was 6:30PM and I had missed three classes already -- and it was the first day of class! At FSU, if you miss the first day, you're automatically dropped from the class. I was so upset. I was even screaming at dad because all the clocks in our house said different times.

  Then my alarm went off and, in my groggy state, I thought to myself, "Oh, thank god, it's only 9 o'clock. But how am I going to get to Tallahassee? I wonder if Katie will let me stay. Oh, no, I can teleport there; I forgot." ... and went back to sleep. WHUUUUUUUT.

  Also, previous to this dream, I dreamed that I was trying to ride a motorcycle but I couldn't, so I crawled along Knox McRae on my hands and knees while a transvestite followed along, laughing at me.

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1.   Watching Doctor Who season 2. Unfortunately the first disc, which I got from Netflix, only has the Christmas Invasion and the first episode on it, both of which I've already seen. Rewatching first episode. CATPEOPLE. XD



2.   I had this really weird dream last night that Mrs. Kuon was going to take a bunch of us -- the same group that went to HP5 -- to a restaurant. Except I took forever to get ready, and I accidentally invoked the wrath of Mrs. Kuon. XD She seriously wanted me to die. It was scary. Then the dream changed and it was mom, Mrs. Kuon and I and some random people who were apparently friends of Mrs. Kuon's. My mom was very uncharacteristically rude during the dinner, and Mrs. Kuon's friends moved to a different table. I was really upset that my mom was acting so strangely -- and so horribly. I woke up and I was like BLAAUGHGH!! and sat straight up. XD



3.   I finished HP6 on time and with a few days left to go, so I'm doing some (really) easy reading to fill in the space. I'm rereading one of my old favorites, Catherine, Called Birdy. I picked it off the bookshelf and started laughing. I remembered what the cover looked like except one thing, which I had forgotten and was pleasantly reminded of. As you can see, one of Catherine's suitors is serenading behind her... what's amusing is that the dude looks exactly like my father. XD

  I think that's all.

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  More random things:

1. I just got some spam mail dated "February 13, 1980." AWESOME. It's spam from before I was born! I didn't even know spam existed back then! I should have donated it to a museum rather than deleting it. It was titled "to the bandstand," although I don't know what the hell that means.
   


2. Overheard this this morning: "Isn't it weird when it's hot as hell, then raining, then cold, all in the same day?" *headdesk* Well, someone doesn't watch the weather channel. I believe it is called a "cold front." These "cold fronts" are very rare and almost never occur, so I can understand your surprise here! (end sarcasm)
   


3. I dreamed that one of my legs turned black because I ate too much sugar. :(
   


4. I also dreamed that Nettuno was on the run from the law because he was framed for MURDER by Kira, lulz. XD I was over at Sara & Alex's house when Nettuno came over to tell everyone that he was on the run but that HE WAS INNOCENT, DAMMIT. Before he could leave, the cops came for him! Sara & Alex's backyard was like ginormous somehow, and her dad had built multiple houses out there, so we kept moving Nettuno from house to house while the cops searched them. Then we dressed Nettuno up in a bear costume and pretended he was a dog.

  I am getting things done today!! *thumbs up*

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  Okay, last night I had this dream that I was in the woods and this beaver came running up out of nowhere and stole my favorite bracelet. I chased the beaver and tried to catch up to it before it got back to its dam, but it got there and slipped in before I could catch it. So I wrapped my hand around the neck of its beaver husband and threatened it. It wasn't really paying attention, though, because it was a beaver and it just wanted to get away. Still, I wasn't about to snap beaver neck or destroy a beaver dam for a bracelet, so I went back into the woods and cried.

  Who knew that beavers were such assholes? And we don't even have beavers in Florida.

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  I had a bunch of very weird and strange dreams last night. In one Mrs. S and Sarah and Worthy had moved to North Carolina and had, like, a horse farm. They wanted to go in town and get ice cream, but I refused to drive since it was one of those northern-style towns with one-way streets everywhere and parallel parking along the road.

  Somehow or another I got back to my apartment here, and Sara B was with me. Only my car stopped running, and I noticed that everyone else's cars had stopped running as well. Well, it was obviously because Mothman was about, so we went to run inside but I saw Mothman's eyes in a tree and I couldn't move or talk because he froze me with his MIND POWERS. So we jumped into the nearest truck, which happened to be Jack Bauer's, and hid in there with him, and he was angry because he was late for work. Eventually Mothman flew away and we went inside.

  The next day when it was sunny I went out to investigate the scene, and sure enough, there was Mothman up in the tree, sleeping. He was like this giant black and rotting owl and was quite gross. So I threw rocks at him.

  Lesson learned: Do not throw rocks at sleeping Mothman.

  He was pissed! He opened his scary eyes and froze me again. Sara didn't know what was going on but I couldn't speak to tell her. Just to let me know that he did not put up with this type of shit, he ate some girl passing by on a bicycle and harvested her torso.

  Anyway, I've got a midterm to study for. Ugh.

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  Man, did I have a dream this morning that was woah. It seems kind of lame and silly now that I look back on it, but when I woke up after it I was seriously considering crawling into bed with the parentals -- only they had already left for work, so instead I just irritated the cat some.

  I dreamed that someone had crossbred alligators and polar bears, only the result was some sort of clunky, seal-like mass with human arms and a short dog face. Despite not having any legs, it could move at super-sonic speed, and it liked to eat people. The way it ate people was pretty horrible; I'm really amazed that my brain conjured this shit up at 8:00 in the morning. It would lunge at someone and pretty much just punch into their middle, then it would kind of burrow inside them and eat them inside-out while they were still alive. And sometimes it would just go for the face. Also, the Bad Guys in Lab Coats who designed this thing tested it out by releasing it with people in the woods. You could try to run but it would get you. And you couldn't escape up a tree, either. And then it would turn around and eat the Bad Guy in a Lab Coat as well.

  And THEN someone had the bright idea to install these things in elementary school as teachers. I sat at my desk and watched the boy next to me meet a horrible end after getting a question wrong at the board. Then it was my turn and I was so like "SHIT SHIT SHIT IT IS GOING TO EAT ME AND IT IS NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY," and it was sitting there salivating at me and I was kind of like "GODDAMN" and that's when I woke up by having a massive twitch attack and landing on top of the cat, who was like WTF and ran away.

  In other news, I have a LOT to do before I go back to school but only two days to do it in, because my room is going to be commandeered on Saturday and I am sorta pissed about that.

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  Curious, as usual. So here's a poll about dreams.

( How do you see yourself in dreams? )

  Personally, I never "see" myself; I view the dream through my own "eyes." Which is really annoying, because a lot of times my "eyes" are half closed and I always have to lift my chin and look down to see anything... and it's just really weird and irritating.

  Anyway, I had a really really vivid dream today while taking a nap. ( Cut because no one wants to hear about my weird-ass dreams. )

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