Dream
This weekend exhausted me, and/or I'm coming down with something. I'm inclined towards the former, however, since I don't feel anything other than tired. What I did was a big thing for me, and I expected to feel more while I was doing it. However, I didn't, which was probably good, and I'm now recovering from the huge energy expenditure.
But life goes on, and I need to be sharp today. Most of my co-workers, as I've mentioned, are Muslim, and have therefore been observing the holy month of Ramadan. Now that the end of Ramadan is here, they spend a day or two celebrating, and will mostly be out of the shop. I volunteered to come in early to open. However, I wasn't certain that today was the day I'd be doing this. It all depends on when/if the moon is spotted. So it would be either today or tomorrow. They told me they'd give me a call the evening before, when they knew. Because the weather's good, it was most likely a go. I'm fine with this, but as I said, I was exhausted, and passed out around 7. First, I was awakened by a junk mail call, which of course I thought was my co-worker when I picked it up. I'm sorry, Scott the Carpet Cleaner, but as soon as you said, "Don't hang up!" I hung up. I might have said, "I'm not interested, thanks anyway," before hanging up otherwise.
Then I fell asleep and dreamed.
I dreamed I was watching for the moon with my co-workers. I was pointing to my tattoo, noting that I happened to have the crescent and star symbol worked into it. (In real life, not really, though there is a crescent) The crescent was limned in twenty-one stars (I think. I was trying to count them in the dream and having difficulty) There were concentric circles of stars, each circle with a different number, but they added up to twenty-one, and were ultimately a single circle. I looked up and saw a tree or something with the exact same flame shape as my (actual, real) tattoo. I was overcome with emotion. I also saw the new moon, which was in the east and caused some confusion even for my dream self.
Then the phone rang, and it was my co-worker, telling me that they'd decided to do it today. Despite my sleepy state, I managed not to say, "I know."
But life goes on, and I need to be sharp today. Most of my co-workers, as I've mentioned, are Muslim, and have therefore been observing the holy month of Ramadan. Now that the end of Ramadan is here, they spend a day or two celebrating, and will mostly be out of the shop. I volunteered to come in early to open. However, I wasn't certain that today was the day I'd be doing this. It all depends on when/if the moon is spotted. So it would be either today or tomorrow. They told me they'd give me a call the evening before, when they knew. Because the weather's good, it was most likely a go. I'm fine with this, but as I said, I was exhausted, and passed out around 7. First, I was awakened by a junk mail call, which of course I thought was my co-worker when I picked it up. I'm sorry, Scott the Carpet Cleaner, but as soon as you said, "Don't hang up!" I hung up. I might have said, "I'm not interested, thanks anyway," before hanging up otherwise.
Then I fell asleep and dreamed.
I dreamed I was watching for the moon with my co-workers. I was pointing to my tattoo, noting that I happened to have the crescent and star symbol worked into it. (In real life, not really, though there is a crescent) The crescent was limned in twenty-one stars (I think. I was trying to count them in the dream and having difficulty) There were concentric circles of stars, each circle with a different number, but they added up to twenty-one, and were ultimately a single circle. I looked up and saw a tree or something with the exact same flame shape as my (actual, real) tattoo. I was overcome with emotion. I also saw the new moon, which was in the east and caused some confusion even for my dream self.
Then the phone rang, and it was my co-worker, telling me that they'd decided to do it today. Despite my sleepy state, I managed not to say, "I know."