lastnite: a dream journal

Rebellious nuns, careers and Shaft

Priya's grandmother was a hell-raising nun in an Apple IIe computer game called "Summer of Love."

I was at some private school, and they had a career center that went by the intials WOIJC. To get there, I had to walk by the dorms (I lived in a tent near the dorms) and go through about a block of woodlands, then go up about ten flights of stairs straight up. I then entered the WOIJC hall on the top floor, so I essentially started at the top of the employment ladder ("Entertainer/Professional Athlete"). To go anywhere, I had to go down. There were no stairs, and I had to jump down to large inflatable tubes. I eventually fell all the way to the ground, which was a bookstore. There was a nonfiction writer attempting to sign books, but no one was interested. I had read one of his earlier books and thought about buying his new one, but decided that I couldn't afford it. Jerry Springer was wandering around; someone made fun of him and I said, "Stop it. That's my boss you're talking about."

I saw a black velvet painting of Richard Roundtree as Shaft in a trailer home. Then he and Pam Grier burst in, kicking down the door. I cowered in the corner, saying "I watch you every day."