lastnite: a dream journal

Eddie Rabbit, a Lil Bow Wow clone, and John Ritter

Kathleen and I were watching TV and flipped it to CNN. There was a documentary about a gifted boy in foster care. Then we saw that boy getting ready to go on Sally Jesse Raphael or something, and got a sneak peek of his "woman," a cheap floozie in Frederick's of Hollywood, in the green room. Then John Ritter burst in, wearning a bathrobe, men's nightshirt, and an awful long-haired and toussled brown wig, screaming something about how "she's not my whore." Kathleen and I just looked at each other.

The Center adopted that little boy (who looked a lot like Lil Bow Wow) because he was gifted and had no other place to go. He was about ten, and he was taking Chinese, Japanese, and so on. Stephanie fell in love with him quickly and squeezed him in a massive hug at the water cooler: "Oh, please let me be your mommy!" He was cool towards everyone, talked a lot about his P (property) back in New York, and liked to give me a hard time. I suppose I wasn't being properly respectful towards him, but he was also just a kid. We posted a psychiatric evaluation of him on Jake's cubicle. I told him I had seen the CNN report on him (see dream above). I asked him what he was learning about in school and he told me he hadn't gone because his mom didn't like to push him to learn when he didn't feel like it. "Oh, so we pander to your desires?" I asked him, and he said yes. Then I asked him about his P (property: his term) and he complained about how hard it was to get more on $40/wk. He didn't seem too impressed with my cost of living comparison. Then we moved over to Steph's cubicle and he asked if she was going to start a protest over trash collection. I told him that was her business.

I had voice mail on my home phone that I couldn't figure out how to delete, or even access reliably.

Steph sent me an emergency email asking me for my Oscar activities during Mar 23-25. I then pointed out we'd be on Spring Break. She also complained about her utility rates.

Eddie Rabbit had the happiest marriage in the world.