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Had a very odd dream last night, but with some beautiful scenery toward the end. First, Andrea was having a birthday party, and some people got her takeout pizza in a special box. i thought that was a little stupid, b/c we were at a different restaurant at the time, so it was going to get cold. but there was the party thing going on throughout.
Then at one point I was in a forest with Legolas and we were being attacked by "orcs" (who were really more like very dirty humans) and i had a pike and was trying to stab them before they got near me. the pike was supposed to be poisoned, but i had some trouble with it, and at one point i thought that it wasn't working, and if i could only take control and imagine hard enough that it was working, it would work and everything wouldn't get creepy. apparently i've started semi-lucid dreaming...
anyway, we got away and moved upstream to a place where a bunch of people were sitting around in a large rectangle of seats and singing a capella. it was beautiful, and i joined in on the melody b/c i knew the song and people were looking at me. i went, still singing, to find a seat, and was seated by shandi tosten and emily walker, so apparently it was a class reunion. the class reunion then moved on: i was looking through a yearbook and it was full of illustrations and you were supposed to find illustrations of people reading the actual yearbook (it was also full of typos and you were supposed to find those too, and iw as like, they just didn't want to proofread). i was trying to show this to mom. the people in the illustrations were in this beautiful classical/medieval building, and then we were there too.
then suddenly we looked out the tall windows and we saw what looked like alligators hanging in the air. then we realized they were hanging there b/c they were eating pelicans, and the pelicans were flapping their wings and holding them up. somebody had decided it was fun to airdrop half a dozen alligators into the party. They were very fas tand kept chasing people. they transformed later into bears, which were better, partly b/c you could shout a lot and they would leave you alone.
but the architecture for this graduation party was GORGEOUS. at one point there was a woman in a dress with this very long piece of material--yards and yards--attached to it like a train. She tried to swirl her dress and it didn't quite work. so i shouted encouragement to her from the window, and she did it again, and this time it worked gloriously, the train blowing out behind her in a straight line in the wind afterward. we applauded--and then the end of the train got wrapped around a power line and she had to get it down.
finally the pope arrived, and we thanked him so much for allowing us to have this party in the vatican. i was very complimentary, though i DID tell him i didn't appreciate the alligators. i was about to head to the concert hall for the last part of the program, and i was getting out my camera to take some final pictures, when this plane took off from the italian army/police a short way away and flew over firing down in this narrow line right across the street. they didn't think we should be there--i think it was a combination of the fact that we were christian (thus the pope) and that we were americans. anyway, it was terrible that they didn't want us there, and we were angry. i was still trying ot take pictures when they forced us to move on at knifepoint. i was seriously annoyed.
we went into the building for the last part, and discovered that we had to walk in this raised cattle-chute-like thing where the pews and stairs were, except everything was COVERED with a massive disorganized pile of old books. so we had to walk over books and sit on books. the building was very dark, done in dark wood, and had a crazy design, like that wild staircase in that bookstore in portugal. i sat down and tried to take a photo of it all, but i had trouble with my camera. i was sitting next to emily walker. then the pope began preaching, talking about how awful the italians were being, and he said 'shit' in his sermon: because he's the COOL pope.
Then at one point I was in a forest with Legolas and we were being attacked by "orcs" (who were really more like very dirty humans) and i had a pike and was trying to stab them before they got near me. the pike was supposed to be poisoned, but i had some trouble with it, and at one point i thought that it wasn't working, and if i could only take control and imagine hard enough that it was working, it would work and everything wouldn't get creepy. apparently i've started semi-lucid dreaming...
anyway, we got away and moved upstream to a place where a bunch of people were sitting around in a large rectangle of seats and singing a capella. it was beautiful, and i joined in on the melody b/c i knew the song and people were looking at me. i went, still singing, to find a seat, and was seated by shandi tosten and emily walker, so apparently it was a class reunion. the class reunion then moved on: i was looking through a yearbook and it was full of illustrations and you were supposed to find illustrations of people reading the actual yearbook (it was also full of typos and you were supposed to find those too, and iw as like, they just didn't want to proofread). i was trying to show this to mom. the people in the illustrations were in this beautiful classical/medieval building, and then we were there too.
then suddenly we looked out the tall windows and we saw what looked like alligators hanging in the air. then we realized they were hanging there b/c they were eating pelicans, and the pelicans were flapping their wings and holding them up. somebody had decided it was fun to airdrop half a dozen alligators into the party. They were very fas tand kept chasing people. they transformed later into bears, which were better, partly b/c you could shout a lot and they would leave you alone.
but the architecture for this graduation party was GORGEOUS. at one point there was a woman in a dress with this very long piece of material--yards and yards--attached to it like a train. She tried to swirl her dress and it didn't quite work. so i shouted encouragement to her from the window, and she did it again, and this time it worked gloriously, the train blowing out behind her in a straight line in the wind afterward. we applauded--and then the end of the train got wrapped around a power line and she had to get it down.
finally the pope arrived, and we thanked him so much for allowing us to have this party in the vatican. i was very complimentary, though i DID tell him i didn't appreciate the alligators. i was about to head to the concert hall for the last part of the program, and i was getting out my camera to take some final pictures, when this plane took off from the italian army/police a short way away and flew over firing down in this narrow line right across the street. they didn't think we should be there--i think it was a combination of the fact that we were christian (thus the pope) and that we were americans. anyway, it was terrible that they didn't want us there, and we were angry. i was still trying ot take pictures when they forced us to move on at knifepoint. i was seriously annoyed.
we went into the building for the last part, and discovered that we had to walk in this raised cattle-chute-like thing where the pews and stairs were, except everything was COVERED with a massive disorganized pile of old books. so we had to walk over books and sit on books. the building was very dark, done in dark wood, and had a crazy design, like that wild staircase in that bookstore in portugal. i sat down and tried to take a photo of it all, but i had trouble with my camera. i was sitting next to emily walker. then the pope began preaching, talking about how awful the italians were being, and he said 'shit' in his sermon: because he's the COOL pope.