dreams

It's times like these I wish I had the ability to interpret my own dreams. (I'm pretty good with other people's dreams, but not mine.) I had two dreams about death last night. In one, a guy from my college alumni email list had died. I knew that I had been with him when he died, but I didn't remember it. I was running around town frantically, looking for...??? Then a woman who had also been there came up to me (she might have been this particular woman on the list) and I asked her, "was I there when he died?" and she said yes. Then we were pounding on the door of another guy from the list, and his wife came to the door -- it was very late at night so she was annoyed. We asked if P. (her husband) was there. He came down and looked at us, and I said, "it's me, Joan, from [the list]." He just turned around and started going back up the stairs toward his bedroom. I was yelling after him, "It's about C [the guy who died]!" He turned back, and I said that C. had died, but then P. turned around again and went back up the stairs. I was really hurt. I had thought P. would be all upset, and would take charge of things and comfort me and call whoever needed to be called, but all he cared about was his sleep.

In the second dream, I was at a party or political fundraiser, and a guy fell down. We somehow knew that he had had a heart attack recently, and we thought he might be having another one. Then I was on the phone with my mom trying to tell her who the guy was and that he was having a heart attack, but she wasn't listening because she was mad at me for something.

I also dreamt about maple syrup, but that was a whole other thing. Anyway, those dreams kind of disturbed me, especially the one about C. dying. I wish I knew what, if anything, it meant.

fidgety

I had a pretty good weekend. On Saturday I went to the Red Sox game with my friend Maria. They lost in sucky fashion, but it was still fun. I also did some laundry and hung out with my mom's kitties. I can never get over how cute they are. I took some pictures of them (also some at the game) that I need to download off the digital camera before I leave for Worldcon. That's assuming I decide to bring the camera to the con. I'm waffling on that point.

On Sunday I mostly puttered around doing random stuff that I felt a need to do before Worldcon. I got a couple episodes of Farscape copied off the TiVo onto tapes so I could clear some space on TiVo. I made more progress on the transcript of Buffy "Seeing Red." I went to the Ames going-out-of-business sale (*snif*) and picked up some random stuff that I needed and some random stuff that I didn't really need. (But it was CHEAP!) I cleaned up the apartment -- a little -- okay, a very little -- and fried the tofu that was in the fridge about to go bad. Note to self: Never eat an entire package of tofu in one sitting. *groan*

And now I'm back at work and there's only two days till I leave! Yay! And also ack. I'm frantically making lists of things I have to not forget to bring or do. I'm never the list-making type except when I'm going on a trip. Sunday, three whole days before I leave, I was laying out my plane clothing and packing my carry-on bag; is that excessive? ;) I didn't really totally pack my bag, I just put my cape in it to make sure that it would fit and still leave room for my crosswords, book, etc.

They posted the programming schedule on the Worldcon website and, as usual, all the panels that sound the most interesting are in the same, like, three time slots. I only looked at Friday's schedule and already I saw two time slots that had a total of seven panels I wanted to attend. Augh! Ah well, that's Worldcon for ya. So many panels, so little time.

Have I mentioned that I'm totally psyched for Worldcon? :) I'm totally psyched! Even though I'm wondering what I was thinking scheduling my flight to leave at 8am. Ah well, hopefully I'll be able to sleep on the plane.