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Monday, December 20, 2004

I Love You But I've Chosen an Environment Free of Cat Piss

Gus and I spent last weekend at Jim's house in OKC. Jim is one of the coolest friends we have and visiting him is always fun, but I cannot go back there until he cleans the cat piss out of the guestroom carpet. It will probably involve a team of steam cleaners, and possibly a new futon, since the smell has permeated the walls and everything in the room. I hate to sound like a primadonna, but that room is simply unbearable. Everytime I went in there, I wanted to blow my own head off with a shotgun.

In other news, we visited Gus's parents in Norman. They gave us Christmas presents. Gus got a big car for his Homies and a bottle of Crown. His stepmom, Lana, gave me Celine Dion perfume. I don't think she's a big fan on Celine Dion, but simply thought the perfume smelled nice. I am slightly uncomfortable with wearing a fragrance associated with an ugly, talentless elk-woman. I suppose if it really does smell nice, I can buy a non-descript glass perfume bottle and pretend it has nothing to do with Celine Dion.

Last night, I had a really strange dream. Well, first I had insomnia for a little while. I awoke around 3:30am and couldn't get back to sleep. Gus awoke around 4:30 and decided to take a shower and walk to work. He's a trooper, Ah tell you whut.

So I got back to sleep and dreamed that I was caught in a legal scam that involved stealing some vaguely-explained intellectual property from my company, and I was going to end up taking the fall. Most of it took place in a nice hotel. There were also several trips back to Illinois, to Jerry and Mike's houses particularly. I reunited with random faces from my sketchy high school past. Gus was with me in these parts of the dream, so that made them the most pleasant. The rest of the dream involved people I've met in Austin that I don't talk to anymore.

I don't talk to them anymore because they are likely candidates for screwing me over in a corporate legal scam!!

The dream ended up consisting of a scene where I sat in a dining room free-floating in space with some strangers and some folks I sort of know. There was chocolate, and maybe poker.

I ended up in a large cavern, similar to that of the pod scene in the first movie of the Matrix trilogy. I wasn't trapped in anything and there were no tubes connected to me. I was just lying on a big strip of rock that jutted out of the cavern's wall. There were some other people scattered around me, but I was still scared at first. I had to spend a moment trying to figure out why I was there.

It turns out that the point in my being there was to sleep peacefully for the first time. When I woke up, I rolled off the rock and hung in midair inside the cavern.

I believe it was the most closure I've ever had in a dream. When I awoke in real life, I deduced that I'd been shot or thrown out of a window because I was making it too hard on the corporate scammers.

Although I made up the sleep I'd lost early this morning, I do not feel rested. Insomnia is not cool.

posted by platkat @ 8:43 AM