a dreamy nightmare.

two anecdotes today.

1) a little girl in my class got a new watch. the face is a toilet. it plays songs when she...

potty training is a strange business.

2) last night i had a college dream. i love college dreams because i loved college. i dreamed that i enrolled in another semester of school behind my parent's backs. back? and i woke up (in the dream) and realized it was a test day, and i hadn't studied a bit! then i went to the wrong building, and couldn't find my classroom. and i also realized that for the entire semester, i had accidentally been skipping one of my classes. i just forgot to go, every day. so i decided to drop out, because i was failing anyway. and because i didn't want any more student loans. it seemed irresponsible, from a fiscal standpoint. (i'm not usually that pragmatic in my dreams. i'm a bit more of a risk taker. you know...walking through walls, flying to the moon, that sort of thing...)

and then i woke up for real.

and even though it was a nightmare...

it made me wish i was back in college. not because i'm hanging onto the past, at least...not entirely.

i like to learn.

i like pens and pencils.

i like notebooks that match my folders.

YES. i was that girl. in elementary school, and in college.

i like taking tests. i like studying.

but.

'twas only a dreamy nightmare.