I had the most bizarre dream last night. Far as I can tell it was right before I woke up and was interrupted by my alarm going of at 5:30a.
Right, so I'm back at Carleton and it's like the middle of winter term if the snow on the ground was any indication. I'm the me I am now, my age, that is and I don't know what year I am ... but since I'm 26 in the dream ... I'm totally older. The plot of the dream was that I was killing time before I had to leave for the airport to go to China for the remainder of the term/year.
I was living in Nourse at the time when my phone rang telling me it was time to go to China, pack up and be at Sayles in a few hours. I was happy to be going to China but sad that I was going to miss broomball season, since I figured the Drama Queens finally had all the pieces to go all the way. Sad, but not detered I grabbed Billie, my broomball stick and headed over to Minervacat's to hand her the stick and hand over the captaincy of the Queens to her. Only, I never quite made it over to her place because I was distracted with the thought of heading over to Evans to see Mrs. Gunder and say goodbye to her.
Oh, did I mention that Nourse had been completely refurnished with stuff from IKEA?
Well it had.
At this point, I didn't see a single other Carl. From here on out Carleton was populated by people I know from life in Lawrence. Friends from school, coworkers and so on. When I got to Evans I couldn't remember what collumn Jo lived in so I called her from my cell phone that couldn't get reception at all, so I headed out to the balcony to make the call. On my way there, I saw a line leading up a stairwell (that doesn't exist in reality) leading up from the Evans Dining Hall. In line were a few coworkers who were complaining about the long line.
Eventually I ended up in the basement of Boliou talking to The Bobo and TongueRingCoworker talking about his photos.
Yeah, a strange dream that seems to be an amalgam of things that have been going on in my life.
The IKEA thing comes from Jonathan Coulton song about how IKEA is powered by a bunch of Norsemen. While listening to this song last night I started to wonder what it would be like if the furniture in Nourse were made by a bunch of Norsemen ... The Gunders show up because I really owe them a call ... I did hand over the captaincy of the Queens to Minervacat when I graduated and even gave her (and the other co-captain) one of my broomball sticks (Ella, if I remember. Because I kept Billie and Stevie for myself.) I never lived in Nourse after frosh year and I never went off campus, either. So that part of the dream is odd as is all the non-Carls showing up.
And the Boliou thing is weird. I really wish I could remember how I got there. The transporting isn't strange in dreamland, I know. But in this dream I remember walking from place to place and looking at the landscape between Nourse and Evans and all the pretty snow and stuff. Really odd, yo. And I was talking to someone the whole time ... but I can't remember who.