Things we have almost killed on our roadtrip thus far (* indicates which have been successfully smucked – the rest were just close calls):
Generic birds eating grasshoppers who are sunning on the road*
Grasshoppers – any many grasshoppers*
Butterflies*
Mosquitoes (extra icky)*
Turkeys
Pheasants
Prairie Chickens
Peacock
Bunnies
Possums*
Raccoons aplenty
Cat
Traffic cones
Hitchhiker
Happily, most of the wildlife escaped our careening vehicle. I feel bad about the [...]
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I had a nightmare last night. I haven’t had a nightmare since I was four. My dreams are frequented by horrible images – violence, death, bad guys chasing me through the streets – but these are not nightmares. They are my R-rated subconscious firing off obnoxious synapses. I wake up and think to myself, “Huh. [...]
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The play is fast approaching. At this point, most sane people would be having dreams of walking out on stage naked, forgetting their lines, or forgetting which play they’re in. I got those dreams over with a month ago. (After we first choreographed the Matchmaker song, I had a dream that we decided to go [...]
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Posted in Dreams, Life, tagged Charlotte's Web, spiders on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like spiders. I find them elegant and just a little bit frightening, which is a fascinating combination for me. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not afraid of spiders. As long as they are not on my body, I don’t mind spotting them outside or in my house , though if I find them [...]
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Posted in Dreams, Life on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am a dreamer. Not in the Martin Luther King Jr. sense, but in the Alice in Wonderland sense. I dream every night, always remembering at least bits immediately after I wake.
I learned to interpret my dreams in college, after one particular dream disturbed me so much I couldn’t stop talking about it until someone [...]
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