July 31
*I’m standing on the corner in a city… waiting for the school bus. O is with me? There is some function she can take the bus to get to, but as I look at my watch I realize school will be ending just about 10 minutes after she gets there, and then she’ll take the bus right back here. I’m not sure if it’s worth the time to have her ride to school, but she is already on her way so I might as well let her go. Two other moms are here, discussing things. I point out to them the bus ride is so long that it’s hardly worth the effort. They don’t say very much back to me. We only have about a half hour to kill before we need to be back here at the stop, I’m thinking it might be nice to just hang out and talk, but the two moms have walked off in another direction already. I pull my coat closed, I’m cold, and I start to walk. I can’t take full strides so I look down at myself, and I see that I’m wearing a long dress which reaches down to my ankles, and a fur coat over it. The coat is white with some black vertical stripes… not in any distinct pattern… more like long black smudges. I love this coat, it keeps me warm and I hug it around myself tighter, but at the same time I’m looking at it and wondering where the hell it came from and why I’m wearing it, it’s not my style in the least. Neither is the dress… it is narrow at the bottom and I can’t take full strides when I’m walking. It will take me forever to get anywhere like this. I pull the dress up slightly (to my knees) so I can walk better and I feel like I really need to change clothes when I get to my apartment, which is about a block away.
*I’m in a classroom, I am a student. There is a robbery attempt. Two men with guns come in telling us to all stay still, don’t move. I’m keeping my face down, staring at the desk top, until I realize I recognize the voice of one of the men. I look up and see both are guys I went to jr high/high school with, the one yelling I recognize as DS. I turn my head to the side… what the FUCK is he doing robbing people? I stand up, hands on my hips, and start to walk towards him. He is scanning the room and then he sees me walking. At first he looks like he is going to yell at me, then he recognizes me and freezes. He can see I’m ready to scold him for robbing people… he brings the hand with the gun down to his side and says (in a sheepish voice) “Umm… good work folks. Thanks for cooperating with this drill, you all did great!” and leaves the room. The teacher asks me why I was walking towards him, and I said “That’s just DS… I know him… I didn’t realize he was part of the drill program”
*…I”m being dropped off at a little log cabin off the side of the road. The road is under heavy construction. I’ve been out, busy all day (can’t remember what I was doing just before this) but I’ve been wanting to be dropped back off at home so I could get back to the project – which is the cabin. The road is dusty, gravely… I see orange construction cones along one side. It’s hot out… I go into my little cabin for shade and look around to see what I need to work on next.
