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[freckles_and_doubt]

ME (in full flow during Dracula tutorial): So, we've seen ghosts in A Christmas Carol, now we're dealing with vampires, which are a threat which gives rather a different shape to the story. For a start, how do you deal with a ghost?
STUDENT: Um... call the Ghostbusters?
CLASS: *corpses*

And, overheard from the students behind me while walking down to my office this morning:
STUDENT 1: Ja, so her parents are, like, really rich.
STUDENT 2: You mean, rich for Zimbabweans?
STUDENT 1: No, rich for normal people.

I wasn't entirely sure if I should laugh or cry.

Last Night I Dreamed: a long, sad, poignant dream in which I was defiantly moving out of digs with friends (the dreaded M&M) while at the same time being aware that this was a really bad idea. They had this beautiful house on top of a hill, with a large collection of wine and quirky furnishings. The dream segued into walking around Harare in the vicinity of my grandparents' house, being sad and putting off the inevitable moment when I had to go off on my own. Not subtle at all at the moment, my subconscious.

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Last night I dreamed....

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

... that I was moving into a house in a new development next to Century City. When I walked in, there was Mischief. Turns out she wasn't dead, she had just been lost for the past year and had managed to find me. Besides relief, the most overwhelming emotion was worry that antisocial Mischief would hate my new kitties and me for getting them.

There were also other random dreamlets, but that was the most memorable one.

Re: Last night I dreamed....

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Also, in a seperate* dream, I dreamed that I had breast reduction surgery, a tighten and lift basically. They somehow got the nipples in the wrong place, though, so they were at the bottom facing down. The underwires of my bra kept pressing on the stitches and it was really painful. Thing is, after the surgery my boobs were smaller than they were in the dream, but still bigger than my real-life boobs. Very odd.

* is it "seperate" or "separate"? I was always taught that "seperate" was the adjective/noun and "separate" was the verb, but now LJ's spellchecker is telling me there is no "seperate" and dictionary.com confirms LJ's suspicions.

Re: Last night I dreamed....

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I fear that whoever taught you was labouring under a misapprehension. "Separate" is the only spelling, for both verb and adjective.

And, yes, very odd dream. Body-dreams tend to the weird, in my experience.

and last night <i>I</i> dreamed

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

... that d_hofryn was advising me on how to put on the wierd soleless leather overshoes needed in order to safely climb into a very large drum.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

ah.

A day is not lost in which you learn something ...

Re: and last night <i>I</i> dreamed

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

And I thought you were the person who only ever had the boring, normal dreams? Pshaw! That's high-class weird, that is.

Re: and last night I dreamed

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's not often my dreams rival yours for oddness. I also dreamed that I set a worksheet on complex numbers for my class, so normality was present last night.

Re: and last night I dreamed

[kadekraan.livejournal.com]

I dreamed of very small rhinos, about the size of cats, especially bred for their size (vs. natural mutation). In the dream, a friend was keeping one in a shoebox (alice in wonderland sizing allowed for the shoebox to appear spacious despite the rhino's kitty size). The pet miniature rhino had a little human bed, and a heat lamp to evoke those warm savannah nights.