lots of anxiety about work and other things has lead to some pretty interesting dreams as of late.
the first in what is certainly starting to feel like a series was one in which my big toe on my left foot was actually made of something like shredded wheat. the jumbo kind. either that or rotting wood/particle board. i have some issues with my left big toe, simply because it's gimpy and small compared to my right big toe. actually, my whole left foot is small compared to my right, but my left big toe bears the brunt of said gimpiness, simply for its marked visibility (relative to the other lefty toes).
anyhoo, the shredded wheat bit is interesting, but more interesting (i think), is the fact that in the dream, i had a supply of shredded wheat toes stored down inside my foot. imagine, if you will (and i think you will), one of those kids' pencils that has the little bullets of lead that you can push up through the bottom of the pencil. that's the set up i had going on in my foot. but the actual chamber of these back-up shredded wheat toes was smooth like glass and conical in shape.
the point is, it was a strange dream. and therefore memorable. and worthy of mention. and stuff.
the other weird one that sticks out in recent memory involved jules, mad men and kittens. we've been watching a lot of mad men lately. so we were in our hood here in china and walking around the block for some reason. on the corner was roger sterling's office. his apartment actually consisted of box seats for the baseball stadium that doesn't exist in this city. anyhoo, it was also located above a pet store. so jules and i walked into the pet store, and the next thing i knew, she was doped out of her mind and walking across the street, dodging oncoming traffic, with a silver serving tray of stolen kittens raised above her head.
i woke up before anything too bad happened, but there were the very real sounds of swerving cars and fading horns comingling with meowing kittens. that was bizarre.
