In my dream last night, I was hanging out in a room with a few people. I knew them in my dream, but have no idea who they were supposed to represent. It was a greenhouse type of room with small, potted trees and lots of glass windows.

One girl in the room found a very small, green snake. It was only about three inches long. She picked it up and showed me. I didn't want to touch it because I didn't want it to bite me. So she just continued carrying it around and showing people.

Then she showed my brother, and he was so excited about it. He took it from her and was carrying it around. He came up to me and asked, "do you want a snake on your FACE?" Before I could answer, he slammed the snake's head into my right temple. The snake bit me and held on.

I couldn't see the snake, so I couldn't dislodge it from my face. It stopped moving and went limp so I thought Steve killed it in the process. I needed a mirror to pry the fangs loose, but there wasn't one around. A few people offered to get it off, but I was afraid it would hurt even more so I didn't want them to try. (I didn't trust them to do it properly.)

Then I guess we were students in a school and had to evacuate the area because of a flood? So we were all grabbing our bags and coats and running out into a parking lot. The snake was still on my face. Then I guess it came back to life because it was wriggling around while attached.

Then I woke up.

No, not stalking me...

Our department monitors an email account used for the sole purpose of answering the public's questions. You can go to our website and ask over email. If you know what department you want to ask the question of, you can select it from the list. If you don't know, it comes to us. Lucky us, huh? So this is one we got today:

name: George

phone: 33043114

email: himynameisgj@yahoo.com

questiontext: There is a short haired girl I always see walking around the main branch that works there, she's on the thin side and not too short...nothing wierd, she is just so cute and I've wondered for a long time what her name would be. Thanks.

Does this person honestly think we are going to answer? And is that really a valid email address, anyway? It's not considered an available address when I went to sign up for it on Yahoo, so I'm assuming it belongs to someone.

I also wonder who he's referring to...

I'm very tired, and it's only 10:30am. There are two very good reasons for that, though.

1--I stayed up way too late last night. I was going to go to bed around 12:30 like usual, which would have been fine. But once I got up to my room I saw some bills laying around and knew I'd feel better if I went ahead and paid them while I was still up. I didn't think it would take that long. I guess I had more than I thought I did. I didn't finish until 1:15. (But now all of my bills are paid! Yay!) So I went to bed later than I should have. I wasn't planning on waking up until 9:00, however, so it wouldn't have been that bad.

2--But I woke up at 8:30 this morning to the sound of the garbage truck going down our street. This is my week to do trash, so I panicked. I forgot to take out the trash! And I'm always the one to remind everyone else. Heh. So I jumped out of bed and ran to the front window to see if they had truly passed our house or if I still had time. They were really gone. But them it dawned on me that this is Tuesday. Our trash day is Thursday. *sigh* My brain doesn't always function to its full capacity when I first wake up. So since I was already up I just decided to get dressed and go into work early. I knew getting back into bed would be useless, because by the time I was calmed down and tired enough to sleep more it would be time to get up. Oh well.

So now I'm tired, and trying to make it through the day. Fortunately (or unfortunately--however you look at it), I'm teaching this afternoon. This is good in the sense that I will have something to wake me up after lunch so that I don't feel like I'm about to pass out at any second. But then this class is the most basic one we have and it will truly wipe me out. I will have to be incredibly patient, and I will have a completely full class with people who know nothing about the computer. I plan on taking a nap when I get home. That's the only way I'm going to make it through Lindy lessons tonight.

But, this is a much better problem to have than I could be having, so I'm not really in a bad mood...just sleepy. Life is good. It would be even better with a nap.