The last few nights, I’ve had some exceedingly weird dreams. Thursday night, I dreamt I had a nosebleed that would not stop. I was walking around with a towel to my nose and remember feeling the heat of the blood in my nose and on my face. I totally expected to wake up and find my pillow drenched. But no. No blood, thank goodness.

There was something on Friday night, too, but I didn’t write it down or otherwise commit it to memory. Oh, well. I know I woke up feeling equally disconcerted.

This morning, I woke up after dreaming that I had an assignment in grad school that required me to hold two different kinds of large poisonous spiders. I know where they came from in real life: my friend asked me if I’d ever done a Google image search on a camel spider and I had, but I did it again just because - well - gross things are kind of fun to look at from a distance. Also, when I was writing my paper, a really gross but small black spider was crawling up my wall. I didn’t kill him and didn’t freak (though I am rather scared of spiders, really - I just don’t exhibit paralytic fear of anything. I can’t watch spider movies. I won’t HOLD a tarantula. NO touchie).

Still, last night I dreamt I was assigned a final exam that required me to hold two different varieties of rather large, hairy spiders and that the instructions indicated we were to hold the first spider until he bit us and then promptly release him. The second spider just came with a warning that he was highly toxic and that while we’re holding him, we should pay attention to what look like an extra set of legs on his rear because those are actually false legs that are really the pincers he uses to inject poison. I just remember that in the dream, I was begging the professor for an alternative method of earning my grade because I could NOT hold the spiders.

Yeah. So I woke up feeling a little shivery and grossed out. I had also drooled on my pillow (highly unusual) so perhaps I was talking in my sleep and protesting. I dunno.

I’m done with my paper, for all intents and purposes. I am now reviewing with my APA guide in hand to make sure my citation, quotation and other elements are in line with APA standards. I also need to go through and do my usual check for repetitious verbs (”as stated in”, etc.) and change those up. I’m glad to find out that my mental check list for writing academic papers is still intact. When I’m in that mode, there is no such thing as a verb tense change. Nope.

Great. My father just came in here to tell me that he wants to change the household PSE&G billing into my name. I already pay for half of it, so I don’t want the bill coming in my name as well. He also lectured me on spending money. I have most of my shoes lined up along my entertainment center/bookshelf. He pointed to my shoes as evidence that I spend too much money. I replied by pointing out that my shoe size hasn’t changed in 15 years and that the silver Doc Martens he was pointing to were a birthday gift in 1996, the pink and black Saucony Jazz sneakers were purchased 2 or 3 years ago, and the newest shoes were the $40 pointy toe heels I bought at Marshall’s. I just wear them for a long long long time.

Of course, iPod guilt came flooding back in. After NOT having purchased anything in MILLENIA, I get an iPod (which arrives Tues or Wed) and now I’m going to feel incredible guilt about it. Probably only until I delve into this paper again and forget about it.

I hope I’m going out today. I have tentative plans to go into Manhattan with LJ and Aaron today, but I haven’t heard a peep from them. It’s probably going to be later in the day, though. Sigh. I’ll have to wait. I think I’ll go downstairs and have some breakfast, since that’s a good thing to do every day.

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