Weekend dreams

Work dream. I’m at work in my cubicle and my computer screen is huge. It’s takes up an entire wall of my cube. I realize i haven’t checked my email in years and decide i better check it. I click on the email app and realize it’s the old DOS version from the dumb terminal from the late 80’s. I have no idea what my old password is and get a feeling of panic. Somehow i get to the inbox but just as i’m about to bring it up i realize that if i do anybody in nearby cubes will be able to see my screen. Sue Brown is watching me so i leave it and turn back to the control console on my desk. Somebody calls a meeting for the nurses and i can hear them lining up their chairs right on the other side of my cube wall. I grab my chair and roll it around to join. There’s a big white board that we’re all facing and it’s got my home page displayed. Music is playing and we’re wondering where it’s coming from when i realize it’s coming from my computer through the white board. Embarrassed, i jump up and go back to my desk to turn off the music. Then i’m sitting at another desk, not in a cubicle. There’s a window right next to my desk and i look out and it’s all open golden fields as far as i can see. There’s a person on a tractor mowing the tall golden grass. Right up next to the window the mower has the grass tall and i can see a little row of strawberry plants bearing fruit. I turn to tell the lady at the next desk (Janice) but i can’t for the life of me remember her name. I wake up and feel very happy that the secret strawberry plants have avoided the mower.

Shoes and Hats. I’m staying in a motel. It’s a place where work puts up its employees that are TDY. There’s a sitting room, a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom. I don’t know what i’m doing there and i’m trying to sneak out before anybody realizes i’m there. I go into the bedroom and check the dresser drawers to make sure i haven’t left anything behind. First i open the cabinet drawer on the left-hand side of the antique dresser. Inside are several drawers. The bottom left-hand drawer has a single high-heeled shoe inside. I take out the shoe to examine it more closely. It looks expensive and well made. It’s for the left foot. It’s small and wide but on the bottom is a ‘9’. I don’t understand the sizing because it looks smaller than my shoe size, although wider, and i wear 7.5. Since there’s only the one shoe i throw it in the metal trash can because it can’t do anybody except a one-legged person any good. I try and imagine the woman who left it there and wonder if she was mad when she realized she’d lost one of her expensive shoes. I go back to the dresser and look in the middle bottom drawer. Inside there are two more single shoes. Both are for left feet and look too big for me to wear. They’re both high-heeled sandals and i like the styles of either one. I throw those shoes away also and wonder what it is about this place that people forget to take both of their shoes when they check out. Next i look in the left-hand top drawer. It’s a deep drawer and there’re two large hat boxes inside. The boxes themselves are beautiful. They look like wedding cakes – white, covered with lace and pearls, but they’re a little bit yellowed with age. I take one out and attempt to open it. It’s got a kind of locking mechanism on it that i’m having trouble figuring out. I hear somebody coming and frantically try to figure out how to get the box open. Whoever is coming goes into the bathroom. I finally figure out that i have to press the button as i turn it clock-wise. The box opens and there’s a gorgeous hat inside. It’s an old hat, from the thirties or forties maybe. Very Hollywood. It’s got a short fur brim and there’s a piece on the back that hangs down to the neck. It’s a winter hat. I try it on and check myself out in the mirror. It looks really good on me and i kind of want to keep it but know that i’ll never have any reason to wear it because it doesn’t get that cold so i put it back in its box and back in the drawer. I wake up before i can open the other hatbox. :o(