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Here tumblr, please enjoy my (literal) dream that I posted on twitter earlier today. 

I’m having a cranky day at work because people are awful, so now I’m gonna force tlist to enjoy my retelling of the dream I had last night. Everyone likes hearing about random strangers’ dreams, amirite? Especially ones that are like cheesy rom-coms:

I started a new job and was trying to get to know everyone there, and a Cute Coworker invited me to a sports event. Yeah, a SPORTS EVENT. Don’t ask me what kind, even my subconscious couldn’t come up with a reasonable explanation of what it was supposed to be.

I was wondering if this was a “DATE-date” or just a friendly “hey let’s go to this thing” date (bc I’ve been burned before on this, and have usually chosen wrong). So it was vague relief when I realized that there were other people we had in common there. Whew. Not a DATE.

Except I was surprised to discover that I was disappointed it wasn’t a DATE-date. Even so, I enjoyed getting to know more awesome people as we watched the sports ball and ate nachos (my subconscious still knows deliciousness, yo).

Cute Coworker & I worked together on a lot of projects and hung out together regularly (trivia nights are the best nights for impressing someone with my arcane knowledge of random facts), but also in a group as “friends.” Yeah. I know.

Then I was promoted to lead of a project and was transferred to a different area of the building. No more silly jokes and chatter over the cubicle walls with Cute Coworker! Instead, more responsibility! I now had to manage an entire ad campaign ON MY OWN!

Don’t ask me what it was for. A park? Concert series? Who knows, who cares. The point of the ad campaign was a big ol’ “Where’s Waldo” type of huge (digital?) poster that involved lots of random people frolicking and showing how much they loved THING!

So I’m throwing all my energy into making sure this ad is the best THING ever, determined to prove to my bosses (all female, btw, because my subconscious is a feminist) that they were totally right in promoting me.

Cute Coworker is in charge of creating the poster, and I’m looking over the final to-be-approved design, and see that in the corner he’s drawn a tiny version of himself and me! Haha, how fun, using people you already know in the design! So adorable! Except…

…tiny poster Cute Coworker is down on one knee proposing to tiny poster me. OMG. I want to confront Cute Coworker, all “hahaha, that’s hilarious, but WHAT DOES IT MEAN???” Instead I gotta sit through an endless meeting with the Big Boss, pretending I don’t see anything unusual.

FINALLY I head to Cute Coworker’s cube to sign off on the final proofs. I try to play it all nonchalant, like I didn’t even notice the proposal in the corner. Yeah, I’m a non-confrontational chicken. AND THEN I WOKE UP.

So now I will never know what it meant. *sobs* CUTE ARTSY-FARTSY COWORKER THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, DID YOU REALLY LOVE ME? Will there be a “previouslies” in my dreams tonight so I can get some closure?

Oh, and there was a long middle stretch in my dream where I was endlessly searching for (and failing to find) an appropriately clean public bathroom, but I dunno if I can make a rom-com out my need to pee. /fin

tl;dr – I had a cute rom-com dream that I will never the ending to because I had to pee.

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The number eight key on my laptop has officially died and now I’m super paranoid about keeping my computer from randomly shutting down (it’s six years old, sometimes it decides it needs a rest) because my admin password includes an eight and I’ve no idea if I could get back in.

I just ordered a bluetooth keyboard, though, so hopefully that will tide me over until I finally have to admit it’s time for a new computer.

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Our new education director is going to Korea this year to give a few talks about pop culture and comics (she went last year, too) but she’s clueless about Korean pop culture so now I get to teach the teacher, ha.

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Went to see The Shape of Water (which I loved) and then braved a couple of the local grocery stores to find paneton but both TJ’s and Sprouts only had the chocolate chip versions left (sigh, serves me right for putting it off until the last minute). I guess I’ll be reliving my childhood because my aunt and uncle would make chocolate chip paneton for the kids since we hadn’t acquired a taste for candied fruit.

Also still waiting to hear from my friend since her whole family is down with the flu, but I’m assuming I’m still on my own for the holidays.

Tomorrow I shall be brave and venture to Target right at opening because there are a couple of items that I need that can’t wait until the 26th, but I haaaaaaaaate crowds.

Other than that, still no plans. Will probably nap, watch nonsense on the computer, and enjoy having a break with no commitments since I’ll be working six days in a row next week during our busiest time of the year. But it’s my last week, so I can’t complain (well, not too much).