Jimbo's Journal

Screenplay form.  (Please forgive my style, as I have never written a screenplay before)
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I had a dream last night that I was in a beachfront town.  There was a beautiful beach.  A multitude of people were swimming in the beautiful waters, mostly young but some older.  I was staying at a shop (named Weis, for whatever reason) that belonged to someone in the family.  Up the shore there was a beached ship with a large shark (I don't quite fully understand the symbolism of the shark) skewered on the bowsprit (had to look that up).  I kept looking at the beach and longing to go out there, to swim.  Then I was in a car, driving away from the beach.  I never made it to the beach, never got to swim.  I doubt now that I'll ever make it back there.

I took a sick day yesterday.  Wednesday night I started feeling crappy.  I went to bed early (relatively for me) at about 10pm.  By 1am I was up using the bathroom, by 3am I was throwing up, finally sorta slept by about 4am.  Slept late and was mostly out of it Thursday.  Finally ate something at about 4:30pm.  Took some generic tylenol cold/sinus nighttime stuff, which kicked my ass.  Went to bed at about 7pm.  Had trouble sleeping THAT much, but I managed.  But I still don't feel rested.

I had one of those dreams that I really dislike (in a way).  A bad dream, you ask?  No, a good dream.  The type of dream which is so good that when you wake up and realize that it was a dream, you feel REALLY depressed.  So I'm sitting here at work just feeling blah.

I had a strange dream last night that I was attacked by a bear that launched itself out of a small pit at Disney World; it didn't look or feel anything like WDW, it just was (you know how dreams are).  This is probably a result of watching a bit of Most Amazing Videos : "Animals Gone Wild!" last night.  Most of the people on shows like that at least partially deserve to be attacked by the animals though.

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I started thinking about politics and corporations.  One of the worst things that has occured in the history of this country, imho, is the ruling that corporations are legal persons.  So I was wondering why they aren't held to some of the same "standards" as real people, specifically mergers and acquisitions, etc.  Slavery is outlawed, so one corporation should not be able to buy another.  That leave mergers.  One could compare a corporate merger to a marriage between two people.  So I think maybe that if "marriage" becomes constitutionally defined as only between a man and a woman, then corporations should be forced to declare at inception their gender and thereafter be disallowed from merging with another corporation of the same gender.  Also, multiple mergers should not be allowed, and if a merger has taken place either one corporation must be completely disolved of its charter (death) or the two corporations must split (divorce) in order for the corporation to merge again with another (re-marry).

Anyway, just my warped thinking for the morning.

I finished A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3) last night.  Incredible book.  So much shocking stuff happened which I won't get into because drmagoo hasn't read it yet.  It slows down a bit at the end, but ... still.... WOW!  On to Book 4: A Feast for Crows.  This one is much shorter at only 700+ pages as opposed to Book 3's 900+ pages.  I haven't even started Book 4 and I'm already craving Book 5 which isn't out yet (I don't think).

I bought and watched Pirates 2: Dead Man's Chest last night so that I could be ready for Pirates 3: At World's End.  I think I actually liked it much better this second time than when I saw it in the theater.  I think my expectations were so high that I felt a bit let down, so I'm trying to avoid that this time ..... which is hard because the trailer for P3 looks SO FRICKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!  *sigh*  So, yes, I still think P1 was better than P2, but that's OK.  (Topic of ranking episodes of trilogies to be discussed later ... or at TUS).

I had a dream last night that I got a second cat.  My neighbor had brought me a cat claiming that it was my Kahlua's mother (which would essentially be impossible to know).  It was a stray, but not the stray that had been in the building last week.  This one was mostly white with some grey on the extremities (ears, face, paws, tail, etc) and most of her ears were missing (from fighting?) - I don't know if that signifies something.  She seemed to get along very well with Kahlua.  As I've said before, I would like another cat, but I don't think now is a great time for one for various reasons ..... but, of course, this makes me start thinking about it again

So in light of dimfuture's post about dreams, here's mine - or the only part I remember.

I was sitting in the back passenger seat of a car.  In the driver-side back seat sat Jerry Seinfeld, and this car had been outfitted to be driven from the rear seat - it had brake and accelerator pedals.  I don't recall a steering wheel, but I don't recall it being absent either.

So analyze THAT, if you dare!

I don't remember my dreams very often anymore (due to hitting snooze and not waking up well?), but for some reason this one stuck.

In my dream I was speeding along a road faster than was safe. I was passing assorted animals: individual deer, a line of three mountain lions (or similar cat), etc. I braked but it took me a long time to slow down and I eventually turned off the road into a parking lot and when I ran out of room there, onto a path. I finally came to a stop, then turned to back up, only to be blocked in by another car. Then a police car pulled up and gave both of us tickets. I'm not sure what for, speeding parking/driving on a path. I "re-enacted" what happened and explained that I hadn't been on the path for more than approximately 10-20 seconds when he pulled up. I think he took back the ticket. I also seem to recall a bunch of people standing around a lake watching all of this.

The speeding/braking seems to indicate my feeling that I have no control of my life ... maybe the braking signifies gaining control .... ? I don't understand any of the rest: the animals, the other cars, the ticket (rescinded), the path, the people watching, etc.

There was discussion of dreams the other day, and I just found this.  I haven't experimented and can't vouch for it, but.......

http://www.freakydreams.com/freaky.htm


I put in:  "zombie  .... vampire"  and received:

Words like zombie: Death. Automaton. Parts of your greater self are stalking you.

Words like vampire: Extortionist. Bloodsucking. You fear your own feelings.