dream, Mon 9/11/09
I was at some weird version of uni. My high school friends Cathy and Sue-Ann were there. We went to this new cupcake place, except they weren't really cupcakes but more large, soft tarts. I had two flower-flavoured ones - a lily one and something else, like mimosa.
We were all sitting on the cold marble floor in the eatery. I couldn't find my bag and books. Later, Sue-Ann and Cathy left, on bikes. Cathy's seat was too low.
I went back to the cupcake place by myself and there was a flute and viola da gamba recital on. I saw my parents in the audience, and another classmate Andrea. She was wandering around talking to people but I was too shy to do so. I got two hot chocolate drinks - the second for free because I told them they'd never given me my first one, but it appeared in my hand as soon as I went to the counter to tell them I'd been waiting for twenty minutes.
I then got a letter about postgrad study at Melbourne University. I had an appointment to see someone there. I turned up, in a burgundy skirt, a white blouse and a tie, which a woollen pullover. My hair was long and thick again. My friend David H told me to put down my hair as the interviewers would like it better.
I found my way to a building, apparently the postgrad building. Two lecturers were arguing and looked like they might get into a fist fight on a stairwell in the building.
I found where I was supposed to be and met other interviewees. They were nice, funny and into science or commerce. They kept getting awards there and then. One of them asked me for my name and address and for some reason, I put my name down as 'Pusspusskin'. Apparently I was going to stun the judges in my interview by saying my gimmick was to relate structuralism and naturalism to everyday life.
The interviews were finished and I was found a bed in the postgrad building. I woke up and went to go to the bathroom there but there was a cute Japanese girl camped out, watching a telly. I was too stumped to say anything to her in Japanese but I wanted to say 'sumimasen'.
I managed to shut the door and went with my fellow interviewees to buy some coloured water.
* * *
My mother and auntie turned up in the temporary bedroom I'd been set up in. My auntie had left my uncle and had gone mad. I could tell by the postcards she sent me.
* * *
Somewhere else, different dream. I am with people I don't recognise. Snakes keep getting into the house we're in. They keep biting people and penetrating bodies and turning them into statues. The statues keep shattering.
I try to drive away from this. An Indian girl is getting married and apparently I have to wear a sari. She has sex with the best man. Her groom has sex with another man in the bridal party. A camel licks the groom on his privates and gets rid of his body hair this way.
edit
How on earth did I forget to put in the weirdest bit? My teacher Miss Macri (from Grade 4, quite the bullying bitch in real life just because she couldn't spell) made me sing The Magic Flute to my class. Not all of it, but most of it. I had to roll some wheels up and down a long, thick log as I did this. It was extremely difficult.
