'Twas strange the dream I had the other night.  Apparently, Bernie and Ruth Madoff had an empty house in Washington, D.C.  And my boss was given a key to the place to hold onto, so everyone in my office decided to go over there and crash.  We weren't technically supposed to be there, but the mansion was still fully staffed, kind of like Camp David ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that Amy Sedaris and I were cooking hot dogs together in a little pot. Then we started talking about Pink Floyd, and I asked her if she'd ever done the thing where you start playing Dark Side of the Moon at the third roar of the MGM lion on the intro to The Wizard of Oz. And she said YES, of course she had and she thought ( Read more... )

I go through weeks where I have intense and strange dreams every time I fall asleep. For the last week now, I've resumed the weird dreams. First was the one about meeting my sisters at Princeton. Then yesterday afternoon I dreamed that I asked Yuri to buy me cigarettes when she went out shopping. I caught up with her later, and could tell that she ( Read more... )

I had a really strange dream last night. I was with my parents, going to Tangier Island to visit my grandparents for Christmas. So we had to drive from Virginia to Pennsylvania and take a bridge over the ocean to get there. And the city we had to drive to was Punxsatawney, PA (from the movie Groundhog Day). And the locals said, "Ah, just drive to ( Read more... )

"In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?"

I feel this way sometimes, often times, and I find myself just trying to be the person I know I should be instead of actually being that person. Faking love and warmth and kindness when inside I feel shunted or angry or pissed. Because I want to show Christ to others. But ( Read more... )

Free time has come. Classes yesterday went pretty well...I wasn't as focused objectively with some classes as I wanted to be, so we ended up just doing a bunch of review activities, which was fun too. With the 4th-5th-6th graders we played Train Wreck, which they loved. We were sliding all over the tatami floors, it almost got a little dangerous ( Read more... )