Dreams and reality over the past couple days

[xiphias]

I've been sleeping weird, with nightmares and other weird dreams that aren't nightmares but still have that same strange nightmarish quality. I dreamt that I got fired from the Harvard Club, and they wouldn't tell me why. I dreamed that I was at either a stage play or an episode filming of something that was either Star Trek, Firefly, or one of Tamora Pierce's books about Kel. Yeah, two of those are space science fiction, and one is fantasy. It was weird. Especially when Lord Wyldon, Owen, and Inara wiped out a squad of Klingons. And maybe Vogons. Look, it was a weird dream, okay?

Then I double-checked old emails, and realized that something I was looking forward to for this weekend actually happened LAST weekend -- oh well. That sucks.

My mother called yesterday and asked if we wanted to go out and see the Chassidic reggae rapper with her and Dad. Which I do, but another friend is having singing at his house at the same time, and I think I want to go to that.

This weekend is the American Library Association Midwinter conference, and Lis has an exhibit hall pass. She's hoping to score a Jane Austen bobblehead from one of the booths there.

No Hebrew School this weekend; instead, there's Shabbat Together, which is what they do to try to encourage families in the Hebrew School to go to services. Relatively few of the Hebrew School families actually go to services, and we'd really like them to, at least a couple times a year, so every once in a while, they cancel Hebrew School, because some families really are only willing to do one thing a weekend at the school, so we'd like it occasionally to be shul.

Next weekend is Arisia.

I'm still feeling foggy, brainfried, and dreamlike. Given that my real life isn't significantly less surreal than the dream about Star Trek et al, it's hard to wake up sometimes.

Comments

[anisoptera.livejournal.com]

"Jane Austen bobblehead"

*squee*

[anhelometuo.livejournal.com]

Having a dream about Firefly or Inara is awesome:) I wish I had dreams about Inara...

Surrealism sucks...though it definitely gives you an interesting persepective on reality.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but all she did was beat up Klingons. Not really in character, you know?

[navrins]

Funny, I dreamed about a filming too. Not any specific thing, though, and I kept bouncing back and forth between being the writer and the director - apparently I was whichever one was more annoyed at the time.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

A Jane Austen bobblehead. The mind reels.

[ckd]

The Lowell Spinners, a minor-league baseball team in Lowell, MA, did a series of bobblehead dolls of local notables.

Including Jack Kerouac.

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen a Jane Austen bobblehead, though I do know where you can get a Jane Austen magnetic finger puppet, not to mention a Shakespeare action figure and a lot of other cool, weird stuff.

[arib.livejournal.com]

I'll be going to the Matisyahu concert tomorrow night.

I don't know if this is surreal...

[(Anonymous)]

... but I don't know where else to put it.

I'd like permission to use some of your LJ posts at a panel I'm on at Arisia. Don't know if the particular idea they relate to will come up, but if it does...

I like to go into this in more detail... I don't think what I want to say would be criticism, but I can see where someone might think it was, and I'd like to avoid any possibility of offending you or Lis with what I say about you in public.

I don't want to go into the details here because, well, this is just as public as an Arisia panel.

Is there some place we can discuss this?

Kiralee

Re: I don't know if this is surreal...

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I don't think that would be a problem. If I post something that anybody can see, then it's public, so you can feel free to use it.

Re: I don't know if this is surreal...

[(Anonymous)]

Oh well, it doesn't matter. It turns out I'm not on the panel I thought I was on.

And... for the record... saying I can use anything you post publically does not reassure me...

The panel I thought I was on was about Flame Wars (why they happen and how to prevent them). One of the posts I wanted to use was your post about ginmar, commenting on her confusion of privacy with copyright.

I think this is a much wider problem... the social protocols for email / electronic communication are neither precisely public nor precisely private. They are in fact not clear... so people give offense without intending to. And, I can't assume that all your (apparently) public post actually fall under that protocol.

To be fair, I don't think you would get upset about it - at least not once you've formally given permission. But I think Lis might, and I can't afford to irritate her.

Kiralee