| Aug. 2nd, 2005 @ 04:46 pm [DRAMA] Dreaming |
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I walked into Chemistry Lab today, late, after not
attending for three weeks. The teacher was explaining some arcane
section from the textbook as I sat down at a bench. The class was being
held outside, and the laboratory tables had been moved outside under a
pavilion on the lawn in front of my old house on Lafayette Avenue. The
teacher looked at me funny and the entire class was shocked I was
there: "So, look who's finally showed up." and asked me why I even
bothered; We were already at the end of the lesson. I told her it
didn't matter, I knew all this stuff anyway, and so she tested me by
asking the meaning of the line she had been explaining when I walked
in. "When the sun rises overhead, and the cars pull up alongside the
leaves, deer fly through the forest and mountains fall." I replied I
did not know the meaning of it, because it was a stupid riddle. The
class laughed at me, and moved on with their project.
I went up to the front counter, a perfect replica of
one inside a deli with a register on the far left, and asked the
teacher what I had missed. The assignment was almost finished. I would
have to turn in 3 weeks of work tomorrow. I pulled out a wad of paper
and started taking notes:
- Pick a process
- Make a list of 15 objects associated with this process
- Make a list of 20 ways in which these objects can be used in the process.
- Make a list of 20 results that may be obtained by such use.
- Write an essay describing the properties of this process and detailing my conclusions.
- Write an essay disclaiming that this process will not work as
described unless my instructions are followed exactly as they have been
described.
I wrote those down, but I repeated them to the teacher another two
times just to make sure I had heard correctly. It was about this time
that I began to wonder if I could order food from the teacher, or if I
had to find the clerk running the cash register. I woke up shortly
thereafter. Do you know how aggravating it is to realize something like that was a dream, that you're not even taking classes? This is the second time it's happened in a month.
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