May 22, 2001
Jerry Reed, Queen Victoria, and potato meatball
I did not sleep well at all last night. I woke up about every two hours right on the nose.
My dream about the preschool program is obviously heavily influenced by the Scooby Doo Movies episode with Jerry Reed that was on Cartoon Network. So at the program, we couldn't start because someone stole Jerry Reed's xylophone. There were three families that wanted to sign up for Thursday afternoon preschool, and one has waiting to have a baby until they had enough money--even though the lady was already pregnant. I guess she just wouldn't go into labor until they had more money. Mom came up to me and said, "I'm so bombed." She had drank too much (my mom doesn't drink often, so this is not typical, as it may be for others). As I was getting dressed for the program, I heard about reports of a flood in Hutchinson, and I thought to myself, "We could have died. We were just there."
Randy, David, Matt, Mom, Dad, and I all moved to Japan. Mom and Dad bought a bright red 1930s car (a Pierce Arrow?) with a matching trailer. I spotted Engrish: a sign from the "Potato Meatball" Restaurant advertised "Meat Poptein," not protein. I kept wanting to go to a bookstore, but we never found one. David worked at Benetton and I visited him in the mall where he worked. It wasn't really a mall, but more like the basement of a fancy hotel. "Man, I used to not be able to afford this stuff, but now, it's Japan . . . I used to think I'd get here and just totally immerse myself in art." I told him that I thought I'd get to Japan and just watch TV all the time. The American district was signified by the picture of Queen Victoria on the Bombay Sapphire gin label.