Dreams and Obsessions

Today I was walking to work. The weather has been good so I was all peppy; especially because I passed through a protest. Then I saw this big mass of people, which was exciting and reminded me of NY. Then I realized the mass of people was due to a fire drill in a large office building. But, whatev.

I keep on having the recurring nightmare about watching airplanes crash in mid-air. Last night it was a quazi-lucid dream, which totally freaked me out. Sarah and I were together -- flying American airlines, but our plane was delayed (which is relevant to our recent flight out of Austin). Meanwhile, a Delta airliner just stopped in mid-air, suspended for about 5 seconds and just belly-flopped into the ground. The weird part about the dream was that in the dream I freaked out because my recurring nightmare had come "true".

I have been plagued by recurring nightmares to include:

1) A version of Chinese water torture involving dabbing ketchup on my face.
2) A series of dreams about my teeth crumbling into dust or falling out, i.e. chewing into an apple (at Applebees)
3) A dream about being miniaturized and stuck in a glass of water (which I recently found out happened to a mouse in my friend's house).

I also realize that I no longer have an obsession. I used to be obsessed with colleges, but now that that's my job, I can sort of let it go. In my life I have been obsessed with:
1) track housing communities in South Florida (I used to know all the included features for every community)
2) cruise ships (I used to know the gross tonnage of every commercial cruise liner in the world; I was also a superstar in my high school oceanography class)
3) tennis rankings
4) colleges (I read the entire Lisa Birnbaum college guide 8 years before I was to go to college and concluded that Pepperdine and Rhodes College were my two top choices - that was back when I considered myself a "Republican" which I dropped ONLY b/c my mom dated an Armenian con man named Berge who was a devout member of the GOP; I guess everyone serves a purpose)

A random sad note is that one of my favorite dishes - the chicken crepe salad at Raku (hold the cucumbers, and add extra sesame dressing) is no longer. Laura and I used to go exclusively for this dish. Let us remember the good old days.