lastnite: a dream journal

Some of the MFA crew back in effect

It was the Student-Faculty show. I checked in at the front desk with Rosalie (the kind soul at the grant meeting). Jake was there too. I collected a brochure of ours, careful not to get the desk's coded copy. We then went in the auditorium and Jake disappeared to do lights and sound. The sound quality was very faint, but the lights came on very quickly. I stumbled on the first step. I saw Chet up in the booth laughing, but Jake was gone. I was trying to figure out why Chet was there in the first place.

I went back outside and saw Betty and "Chet's parents." I knew they were his parents because they looked just like him. I talked to Betty for a while. Phillip told me about a grant Roberta was working on to bring 535,000 kids to the Center for a month. At that point, Betty morphed into Kathleen.

Kathleen and I saw Dr. and Mrs. Wineke walking down the hallway and went into his classroom. I didn't know whose classroom it was, but I had a hunch it was his. We ducked out the back door as they walked in the front door. We then moved around to the front door and pretended it was the first time we had seen his classroom. This time I noticed he was selling posters out of his classroom. I found a Barbie high heeled boot on the hallway floor and showed it to Kathleen. She said, "I can't believe you picked that up."

We then stuck our heads in a very small shop. A jazz trio was playing, so Kathleen started to sing all loungey. I followed up with "It Had To Be You." We then went back to auditorium.

We found Dave and John, but no Chet (who Kathleen was primarily searching for). While he said, "Check it, ladies," John flashed us a Visa credit card application and we pretended to swoon. He and Dave were wearing matching shirts.

The awards ceremony was still going on, but it was hard to hear. The woman carrying out the easel to put the poster announcing "Best Tutorial - Best Fiction" almost dropped all the items.