Sunday, July 26, 2009

The banker and the jeweler

Continuing the school theme again!

I was at a University with Darin, Carlos, Eric and someone else, might have been Adam. We were all going there and it was lunch time so we went to the cafeteria. I recall standing in line and going out to where the tables were. It was a very cool veranda on a dock thing. You had an awesome view of the sea. I remember walking out holding my food tray and then looking at my wallet for some reason.

My wallet had 2 parts held together be velcro. As I pulled it out of my pocket one part fell on the floor and the other part was nowhere to be found. I started to panic and Darin commented that it was a dumb design for a wallet. I agreed and ran back to the other side to look for it. I just couldn't find it. I was missing some money, a couple credit and my ID.

After that I need to hit an ATM for some reason. But I had Kesi, Arriana and N'tan with me now. I went to an ATM in front of a jewelry store. For who knows what reason I let them go into the jewelry store while I used the ATM. The ATM was a small box made of mostly clear plastic with a weird black dial on it. There was voice activation also. It kept asking me inane questions. Like the usual, mother's maiden name, but this is an ATM! I started getting frustrated cause I couldn't get my money! I looked down and realized I wasn't wearing pants, so I put some papers I was holding over the front of my undies. I looked into the jewelry store and realized that the kids were wearing jewelry...

I tried vainly to get my money again, then gave up because now the ATM had a line. I went in the store and the kids were covered in diamonds. Tiaras, necklaces, bracelets, the works. I was bout to get mad when I noticed the old lady sales people were adoring the kids. One looked at me and said it was fine. The manager, however, didn't seem so pleased. He walked up and informed me that I could have it all for only $32,000! "That's only $10,000 per child." I scoffed, but realized he was definitely implying buy or get out. I gathered the children and returned the jewelry.

There was a little more but I don't recall anymore.

Laje
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Administrator Carrero

In my dream last night I went to a High school for a job interview to be the Principal, but they kept calling it the Administrator. I walked around the school a little bit first to get a feel of it. For some reason I was wearing a nice shirt and tie and sports jacket with sweat pants.
The students were fairly cordial and I recognized a few. I can't recall now who they were for sure, but I think they were all people I used to know who were 10 years or so younger than me. (A bit old to be in High School now, heh.)
One of the teachers was also someone I knew but I can't recall who now either.
After awhile I started looking for the Principal's office, but I couldn't find it, so I called the guy I had the interview with. He started talking about how they were looking for a Janitor job, too, but the Janitor might be coming back so it could be temporary.
He then started asking me interview type questions. Every now and again I asked him where we should meet, but he'd dodge the question. While I wondered trying to figure it out for myself and answering his questions I ran into my stepdad sitting in a waiting type area outside the offices.
I instantly realized he was waiting to get the Janitor job. I quickly explained to him, while keeping up my phone conversation, that the job might be very temporary. As I did this one of the other guys, who was apparently also waiting for that, left. My step-dad nodded to let me know he got it, but I knew he was pretty desperate for a job. I then headed back through the offices and found an empty one the looked a lot like it should be the Administrator's office but it was really tiny.
I looked to the side of because a lady walked past me. There was a hallway mostly blocked by square lockers stacked up on the floor. There wasn't enough space for me to squeeze through but it looked like this lead to somewhere else. I felt like maybe a teacher's lounge.
I turned to leave and saw my step-dad again. It's a little fuzzy what happened next, but I remember the phone call ended and I finally found the interview guy. It was Richard Dreyfuss. He told me I did very well and passed the test. I was going to get the job. There were some introductions and at some point I woke up.

Laje
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