Dreams

[alanajoli]

Despite having now worked at a library for nearly four years, apparently my subconscious still thinks of me as a bookseller. (I worked at Barnes and Noble for just over four years.) Last night, I had a Barnes and Noble dream, one where I was working at a store that I've never worked at with a coworker of mine, not from a B&N, but from my college Tutoring and Writing Center. Instead of my normal B&N clothing, I was wearing my black gi top and bottom (which, because in my dream I had a shift in the cafe where we always had to wear black tops and bottoms, seemed perfectly reasonable).

Yeah. It's been almost five years, and still that's the job I have dreams about.

Quick thoughts:

My husband just got his second degree black-belt yesterday! In honor of that, any time I mention him on the blog from now on, I'll be calling him by the nickname Two Stripe. Mostly because it amuses me, but also because either listgirl or mechristy asked me to blog about the family more, and I haven't been doing it, because I didn't have an appropriate blog name for him. (Baby number one, who is thus far doing just fine flopping around inside the womb, is nicknamed Bug while she's in utero, will stay Bug until she's old enough to decide if she wants her real name to show up on the Internet.)

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Comments

[boymonster.livejournal.com]

I am amazed at how much our lives have resonances with each other. I too worked at B&N for about four years (one as the cafe manager), then over four years at the Penn State University Libraries (as Annex Supervisor) and now I'm a writer and editor, among other things. And my wife studied abroad and has her masters in Irish Medieval History, and speaks or reads a gazillion languages.

It's almost as if we should have known you a long time ago.

[lyster.livejournal.com]

I find it hilarious that you even adhere to proper employee dress code in your dreams. Don't let the man(ager) keep you down!

[listgirl.livejournal.com]

Assume it was both of us.

Thanks!

and congratulatory hugs to two stripes.