Ghosts, dreams, and Yakko, oh my!
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteLast night I went out with Mel, Nancy, our advisor Vicki, and Joe B from NSCS to meet the Scholar Ambassadors who are "in town" (more like "in the region," because they're visiting a ton of schools in the SoCal area in a matter of days), so we went to the Elephant Bar in Burbank and had a rather nice dinner (Shanghai Cashew Chicken, garlic bread, and Apple/Blueberry Walnut Cobbler for me) and some very looooong conversations about everything from ethics and integrity to the sad and sorry state of "my" generation, which has a vast majority of students who have "entitlement issues."
Rewind a bit: on my way to meet Nancy and Joe (because we were carpooling to Burbank), I was right near one of the Science Buildings (the one with the planetarium in it; I can't remember which one that is off the top of my head, because I haven't had science classes IN YEARS) and I felt like I was about to bump into someone. As I was turning my head, I saw this movement of not-quite-white-- you know, almost a florescent bluish color? It looked like a skirt or a scarf tied to the side of someone's hip or something. By the time I finished turning completely, whatever "it" was was gone-- and there was no one (no lamp posts either) anywhere NEAR me.
I think I saw a ghost.
O_O It wouldn't surprise me, really-- I mean, I kind of "sense" stuff already (and you can call me crazy, it wouldn't be news), and I'm pretty damn skilled with my Tarot cards, if I do say so myself (and so I've been told by others-- I have done readings for others, never for a charge, and even without knowing the question they're asking, apparently the cards and the way I interpret them is always spot-on).
Anyway, if my sixth sense is going haywire, it might explain the weird dreams I've been having. One of them was at least a little Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired, even though all I've seen of that (or talked about it) was the Disney College Presentation on Tuesday, and a brief mention of the ride yesterday. But my dream involved me (at least I think it was me-- it might have been "me" through Elizabeth Swann, but I doubt it; it seemed like the modern era, and there were no other PoTC characters) getting Jack's gun... though it may have actually been Davy Jones' gun. Anyway, the story was, you "kill" whomever is the current captain (of which ship, I'm not sure), and then YOU become captain. But the people you kill and come back to life, and there's an endless supply of bullets. So most everyone is just after this magical gun, because if you tried to do it any other way, it wouldn't count. I remember sneaking around somewhere like a restaurant trying to find somebody, though whether I had the gun or was just looking for it, I'm not sure. I do remember something odd, though-- I think my cousin Erin was there, and she'd somehow used a cell phone to work in a way it wasn't supposed to. This is why I'm not sure if it was really the modern era or not, because I think she was calling someone in "our" time, meaning the time we were both in WASN'T our proper time, and I had no idea how we got there. I also remember thinking the cell phone would be a dead giveaway! There were other dreams too-- just as weird, but at least this morning when I woke up, it wasn't in the middle or right after a dream, so I didn't feel exhausted right upon waking up.
Moving forward again, yesterday all the discussions reminded me of one of Yakko's songs from the Animaniacs. I struggled last night to remember some of the lyrics, and at last, I remembered the whole first verse and chorus... well, here's the song, for your nostalgic enjoyment:
That reminds me, I should get an Animaniacs icon. I've filled up almost all my icon slots, but so many of them just have such RARE uses... I'd like more "general" icons that are fun and can be used at any time. Like the one I'm using now. :D
That said, a few more random blurbs:
(1) I finally got approved to build the Star Ocean 3 shrine at RPGClassics! Yes, I'm biting off more than I can chew again and I know it, but I'm so excited! I've already built the Items page and am working on that now-- I figure since there's more text throughout the shrine, I'll finish that first and then worry about ripping images from the game using my EyeTV. You'll be sure to hear more about this as I progress.
(2) My laptop is STILL acting weird-- if I close the lid and it goes to sleep and is "sleeping" for more than 30 minutes or so, when I open the lid, the screen will flicker as if I can resume work, but then it'll go black and then not turn on. The keyboard will be responsive, but the screen still won't go back on. If I close the lid again, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Battery and power-swapping tricks have failed to work, and often when I restart the computer, I'll get the loading screen (the Apple icon with the "wheel" timer) and then a light blue screen-- sort of like the default desktop (which I don't have set), but then nothing else loads for over 10 minutes. It's very frustrating and I don't know what to do, and when I took it to the Apple store Genius Bar to try and replicate the error, I couldn't! Any suggestions?
Rewind a bit: on my way to meet Nancy and Joe (because we were carpooling to Burbank), I was right near one of the Science Buildings (the one with the planetarium in it; I can't remember which one that is off the top of my head, because I haven't had science classes IN YEARS) and I felt like I was about to bump into someone. As I was turning my head, I saw this movement of not-quite-white-- you know, almost a florescent bluish color? It looked like a skirt or a scarf tied to the side of someone's hip or something. By the time I finished turning completely, whatever "it" was was gone-- and there was no one (no lamp posts either) anywhere NEAR me.
I think I saw a ghost.
O_O It wouldn't surprise me, really-- I mean, I kind of "sense" stuff already (and you can call me crazy, it wouldn't be news), and I'm pretty damn skilled with my Tarot cards, if I do say so myself (and so I've been told by others-- I have done readings for others, never for a charge, and even without knowing the question they're asking, apparently the cards and the way I interpret them is always spot-on).
Anyway, if my sixth sense is going haywire, it might explain the weird dreams I've been having. One of them was at least a little Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired, even though all I've seen of that (or talked about it) was the Disney College Presentation on Tuesday, and a brief mention of the ride yesterday. But my dream involved me (at least I think it was me-- it might have been "me" through Elizabeth Swann, but I doubt it; it seemed like the modern era, and there were no other PoTC characters) getting Jack's gun... though it may have actually been Davy Jones' gun. Anyway, the story was, you "kill" whomever is the current captain (of which ship, I'm not sure), and then YOU become captain. But the people you kill and come back to life, and there's an endless supply of bullets. So most everyone is just after this magical gun, because if you tried to do it any other way, it wouldn't count. I remember sneaking around somewhere like a restaurant trying to find somebody, though whether I had the gun or was just looking for it, I'm not sure. I do remember something odd, though-- I think my cousin Erin was there, and she'd somehow used a cell phone to work in a way it wasn't supposed to. This is why I'm not sure if it was really the modern era or not, because I think she was calling someone in "our" time, meaning the time we were both in WASN'T our proper time, and I had no idea how we got there. I also remember thinking the cell phone would be a dead giveaway! There were other dreams too-- just as weird, but at least this morning when I woke up, it wasn't in the middle or right after a dream, so I didn't feel exhausted right upon waking up.
Moving forward again, yesterday all the discussions reminded me of one of Yakko's songs from the Animaniacs. I struggled last night to remember some of the lyrics, and at last, I remembered the whole first verse and chorus... well, here's the song, for your nostalgic enjoyment:
That reminds me, I should get an Animaniacs icon. I've filled up almost all my icon slots, but so many of them just have such RARE uses... I'd like more "general" icons that are fun and can be used at any time. Like the one I'm using now. :D
That said, a few more random blurbs:
(1) I finally got approved to build the Star Ocean 3 shrine at RPGClassics! Yes, I'm biting off more than I can chew again and I know it, but I'm so excited! I've already built the Items page and am working on that now-- I figure since there's more text throughout the shrine, I'll finish that first and then worry about ripping images from the game using my EyeTV. You'll be sure to hear more about this as I progress.
(2) My laptop is STILL acting weird-- if I close the lid and it goes to sleep and is "sleeping" for more than 30 minutes or so, when I open the lid, the screen will flicker as if I can resume work, but then it'll go black and then not turn on. The keyboard will be responsive, but the screen still won't go back on. If I close the lid again, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Battery and power-swapping tricks have failed to work, and often when I restart the computer, I'll get the loading screen (the Apple icon with the "wheel" timer) and then a light blue screen-- sort of like the default desktop (which I don't have set), but then nothing else loads for over 10 minutes. It's very frustrating and I don't know what to do, and when I took it to the Apple store Genius Bar to try and replicate the error, I couldn't! Any suggestions?
