Basketball

I was in charge of sports at the Y again and I organized a co-ed basketball league. During one of the games, a girl fell and knocked out one of her teeth. I picked her tooth up off the floor and walked with her to the front desk where I got her some ice packs. Her face was bloody and she was very upset that she had lost a tooth. A man came up to me and told me what a great league I had organized. He was very complimentary and interested in my background. I told him I was a teacher and that the Y was just a part-time job. He seemed surprised.

Swimming

Dad and I were at a pool and he was coaching me. I swam a 50 fly so well that I surprised myself. It felt effortless and I wasn't even tired when I finished. Dad was very impressed.

Amy's House

Amy and Matt moved into a new house and I brought Mel and her girls over to see it. It was a huge old house with 4 stories. The 3rd floor was a sports bar with red and black furniture, a bar, round tables and chairs, pool tables, and huge TVs. The stairs to the 4th floor were rickety and there were boards and construction equipment everywhere. There were beams across the ceiling and a giant Neptune holding a trident was painted on the wall. The room had an ocean theme and there was blue sparkly paint on all the walls. The house was so big that you could get lost wandering around in it. An old lady had sold it to them for very cheap, but there was a lot of work to be done to it.

Mr. Den and Russ

I looked like an adult, but I was back in school and Mr. Den was my teacher. I scored very high on a reading test and he was praising me for my ability. Then he told me that I had to pay some type of tuition to stay in the school, but no one else had to pay it. I got mad and told him I thought that was discriminatory and that I would just drop out. He got mad too and told me to leave. The class gasped as I picked up my stuff and walked out the door.

The parking lot looked like the one at Pampa High School and I was running, looking for my car. Mom and dad had left their stuff in my car and were standing in the parking lot talking to someone. I told mom what had happened and she wanted to go talk to the principal. The principal was a tall woman and she got scared when I used the word "discrimination" when telling her what had happened because she was afraid of a lawsuit.

Next, I found myself in some type of hotel in a conference room watching a performance by children. I think they were kids from my school, but I wasn't allowed to participate because I had dropped out. Russ was staying in a hotel room, but I didn't know which one. We had had a fight and I was trying to find him so we could make up. I kept running into people from my past as I was looking for Russ. I finally found him, but he was still mad and wouldn't really talk to me. I was so desperate to make things alright between us.

It's Gettin Hot in Here

Benny and the Jets

Japan

Russ and I were on vacation together with Sam. We were in a nice hotel, but Sam got out of the room and was bothering people on the elevator. Russ told me we were going to fly to Japan. A man who was leading the tour asked me if Russ and I were ever going to get married and I told him I didn't know. We got into a plane to fly to Japan. It was like an amusement park ride and was open on the sides and had glass floors so you could see the ground beneath your feet. I was so excited to go to another country! When we landed they started herding us to a boat. I had to go to the bathroom so they showed me where to go and told me they would wait for me. I expected Japanese bathrooms to be very clean, but they were smelly and dirty just like American bathrooms. The only difference was that there was a hole in the floor to poop in and a toilet to pee in.

Tornado

Ever since the storm on June 14, I've been having dreams about tornadoes. I can always see them in the distance coming toward me. The winds are so strong that a deep trench is being dug into the ground at the base of the tornado, and debris is flying through the air. In one of the dreams, I came out of the house after the tornado had passed and everything had been destroyed. I didn't even recognize my neighborhood because there were no houses or trees in sight.