<p>In both cases: time to wake up!
I’m just glad (really glad) to be past the point of having the awful dream where you suddenly learn at the end of the term that you forgot to drop a class by the deadline and need to sit for the final having not attended all term. I was out of school about 15 years before that one quit.</p>
<p>LOL arabrab!!! I still have that dream! :)</p>
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<p>That dream is very common and has many forms, but that is pretty much the form mine takes. Only lately (yes, as recently as this week), I dream that I never show up for Science class. (Yes, it’s in HS or college but it’s always only “Science class”) and somehow I keep passing and I keep wondering if anyone will realize that I have never gone.</p>
<p>I think the first dream is concern about not being prepared, but my most recent version seems to be about being “found out”, about not being good enough.</p>
<p>I used to muse with friends about what the analogous dream would be for cavemen: There’s the gazelle (or lion?) and I left my spear at home?</p>
<p>Missy – Did you see this article in the NY Times? <a href=“Wintertime Bargains in Budapest - The New York Times”>Wintertime Bargains in Budapest - The New York Times;
Let me know if it is behind the paywall & I’ll send it to you directly. Some cool things that might be of interest over spring break still.</p>
<p>mp, maybe that you are too trusting?
NM, WHAT are you reading or watching these days? Your dream sounded awful.
I, however, had an amusing dream about Mr. Bates from Downton Abbby. I helped him figure out bedding for a big group coming to visit. But it was sleeping bags as this was a modern dream. Quite fun.</p>
<p>I love the idea of a Heckler bus–I am in. Bringing the water bottles but there won’t be waste in them.</p>
<p>Feeling better today but not great. Now have to move an busy week around for S.</p>
<p>mp, I understand that it is tall thin men, not woman. I can’t explain anymore than that. Just a few days ago a young man here felt he could not breathe while on our mass transit. It was the same thing. As S has had it 3 times they now think it might be genetic but that is something I want to discuss with his surgeon.</p>
<p>I luckily didn not dream last night or at least didn’t wake up and remember it. First night out of 5 that I have actually slept and I did get up twice even then… Seems like for some reason sleep is alluding me these days.</p>
<p>Fabulous and timely article, arabrab! Thanks so much. I receive the weekend Times but not week days.</p>
<p>All the best to your son, oregon. S2 is very tall and skinny as well. I hope all of this is resolved soon. I know it is a worry for you.</p>
<p>Glad you had a nice dinner with 2 of your boys, boysx3. That is great that you are now near them. My S1’s annual office party is tonight. His girlfriend was going to go with him but she is not feeling well so he invited S2 to go with him. I’m glad they get along so well and see each other in DC. The party is in one of the Smithsonian buildings so should be fun. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.</p>
<p>So, it turns out my brother has/had “septic pneumonia” or “pneumonia sepsis.” From a friend who’s an ER doc, I have gathered that my brother’s lucky to be alive (“it’s a big killer” he said). B is out of the ICU, but they’re keeping him until they can get his heart rate down. </p>
<p>And my nephew just announced his engagement. You can actually see (but not hear) the proposal on YouTube. He had a videographer there. To me that’s stranger than your dreams, missypie.</p>
<p>Zetesis,So glad to hear your brother is out of the ICU. My dad had pneumonia many years ago and ended up in the ICU with sepsis. It is indeed very scary so glad he is out of ICU. Wishing him the best.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your nephew on his engagement!</p>
<p>HAHAHA-- I just managed to do a new post and a link too. I had no idea what I did-- my post is :<a href="Abercrombie & Fitch No Shirts Prank - YouTube CC forum “When you are bored what do you go to” and has an immediate link to my favorite one of men taking their shirts of in Abercromby’s a few years ago. This actually my favorite mindless entertainment to catch up on every so often…
Still, friends here, I have no idea how I did this and perhaps this is a new thing for us on this new crazy forum.
If you check it out let me know if it linked.
Feeling so powerful now.</p>
<p>The reason I love this is because I figgin hate this store!</p>
<p>Ok-- I really let to need this go…If you have never checked Improvenow it is a really fun place to visit. Some are just amazing fun and some just Ok. laughing on my way to bed tonight…as I never thought it would link.</p>
<p>Thanks for the Abercrombie & Fitch shirtless laugh!</p>
<p>Interesting about the skinny tall guy issue with lungs. I guess I won’t have to worry about that with S!</p>
<p>Missypie, I want a report on the musical. I understand casting children in children’s parts, but . . . ? Typically our HS cast short students and/or children in the community, depending on the role(s). For example, in Sound of Music, some of the older kids were HS students, the 4 youngest were not. Same as King and I. Had a children’s chorus for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Had young kids cast for Les Miz for Gavroche and young Cosette/Eponine.</p>
<p>The Xmas tree has made it to February! H mentioned taking it down in his newly found “free” time, but it hasn’t happened yet.</p>
<p>Hope everyone has a good weekend!</p>
<p>I can now get on to the site and now back in the US after a glorious vacation. Restful time on the beach in Thailand. Lovely people. Always interested in helping. Unlike the US, service is not somehow negatively defining. Then three days in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Angkor Wat, Ta Promh (where they filmed part of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), lots of other temples. </p>
<p>Interesting contrast between Cambodia and Vietnam. Vietnam has a positive uplifting spirit. I think I mentioned the two college freshmen who approached us to practice English. They were from villages in the suburbs of Hanoi and were now freshmen in the University of Industry. One wants to be a journalist; the other a translator. One’s father is a mechanic, the other’s a carpenter. mom’s stay at home. They and all their friends were going to college to get a good job. Another person I met told me not all – her mother collected cloves for some factory. Some of her friends went to college; others stayed in the village. But overall, a really positive place where per capita income seems to be increasing. By contrast, Cambodia seems depressed psychologically. They depend on outside aid to keep up their tourist sites. The country is predominantly illiterate and the populace has no apparent interest in improving education or making sure their kids get educated. Both had horrible things happen (Vietnam with 1000 years of Chinese domination, 80 (?) years of French domination, 20 (?) years of American domination, including one war with the French and the other with Americans (they call it the American War) and Ho Chi Minh definitely killed capitalists, landowners, educated folks and rivals among the commies, and Cambodia with Pol Pot and buddies killing 20% of the population including all educated folks and all of their relatives, anyone with glasses (suspected of being educated), etc.). then Vietnam had 10 years of communist rule, with the inefficient economy and lack of growth that comes with it. Switched to more capitalist economy and things are going well. Interesting to sense the contrast between the two places.</p>
<p>Now off to Costco to stock the larder after 3 weeks away.</p>
<p>I got a laugh out of the A&F shirtless invasion, but I also despised that store. When D was in high school we’d go by there at the mall, and I’d ask, “So, what kind of a clothes company has people who are basically not wearing clothes all over the posters in the windows? What are they really selling?”</p>
<p>Interesting observations on Vietnam vs. Cambodia, Shawbridge. I had not heard that before. Glad the vacation was so revitalizing. </p>
<p>I feel a little out of the CC swing since I don’t have a cute dog. But really, it isn’t a cute dog that I need, it is a cute dog picture. Because everyone else (just about) seems to have one. </p>
<p>Z, so glad your brother is out of ICU. Scary!</p>
<p>Welcome back, Shaw! Interesting comments.</p>
<p>The musical was good…one of the best in years. D and her (still so stupid) BF sat apart from us and during intermission, D came to us to tell us how good she thought it was. And her friend who had the lead was excellent and was very glad D didn’t “boycott” the production. Lots of middle school kids in the cast, even a girl who looked to be 5 or 6 and one who was maybe 3. Lots of short HS cast members. </p>
<p>I guess HS theater teachers have different philosophies of casting…given two girls of relatively equal skill, one might cast my D because she is a senior and is known as a very strong singer, whereas the other might cast the short freshman, because she’s the “right body type.” Goodness knows that out in the professional world, performers have to live with rejection for being “too…” whatever…young, old, heavy, thin, dark, pale, etc. </p>
<p>In the end, I was just proud that D was able to enjoy the show and congratulate her friends when it was over.</p>
<p>In other news, I got out the 529 statements and the calculator, and decided that it was time to stop putting money in any of the kids’ college savings accounts!!! I would say I just got a bit raise, but we haven’t been maxing out my 401K, so that is where the extra money will go. Yes, I am quite aware that many of you have written your last tuition checks and even have kids entirely off the payroll…but I will just be glad for this milestone!</p>
<p>missypie, glad the show was good, and even happier your D attended and supported her friend. That speaks volumes.</p>
<p>shawbridge, your vacation sounds wonderful. Interesting observations.</p>
<p>Happy to report progress on the Xmas tree! Still have pieces in the living room, but it’s no longer standing.</p>