An update from the Liamverse

I rarely go six days without an update, but I have. ;)

I have been commenting, etc., but I really have not sat down and posted myself.

That time span means that I have been really, really busy. There have been some really good things happening and some no-to-good things.

First off, and I will spare the details, my leg is stalled at "somewhat better." It no longer looks like an eggplant, but it still ain't right, bless its heart. It didn't help that I fell on it the other day.

I am through the IV antibiotics and on pills. Only I would be on Avelox -- the possesive form of a former king of An Tir.

Then there's the fact that I am posting on LJ at 11:20 a.m. on a school day. I actually have a doctor's note that says I need to stay home today and tomorrow. (It also included yesterday, but I needed to go in to hand in grades and to get ready for a substitute.

That leads to a good thing. The mother of one of my students has subbed for me once in the past. He suggested I ask Mom if she would do today and tomorrow. She wasn't really planning to come in today, but she said she would and that it would be "an honor" to substitute for me. Wow!

I am also catching up on my reading. While waiting for and getting the IVs, I got through a good chunk of "Love Me, Hate Me" by Jeff Pearlman. It's about Barry Bonds, the baseball player, and it's great. I was also fortunate enough to get "World War Z" when I was at the library the other day. It's by Max Brooks, the author of "The Zombie Survival Guide," and is the "history" of the upcoming Zombie War. It's told as an oral history, and is amazing on many levels. The plan is to finish those and "Valentine' Rising," by E.E. Knight, while lying in bed resting the leg.

There's a whole pile of other goodness from East Kingdom University, and I will post later.

Strange dream . . .

I dream a lot. Many of these are serial dreams that are set pretty much int he same place with the same scenario. Often I am at school, running late for class and/or walking around naked. There is a specific school building I am in, and it's pretty much like Westerly High School, but a touch different.

I am also often in people's apartments, apparently at 4-6 a.m. after a night of carousing. (I do not carouse much these days). I often meed to get to a subway or to my car so I can get to school, but very often I am confused, I do not know what time it is nor how to get to where I am going. I usually need to accomplish a number of tasks to get to the car/subway/train, but they are always very complicated.

There are different places that I am, but there is also one recurring house that's sorta like a combination of Tony Benoit's and Jimmy Peluso's.

But this dream was different, and it shook me up.

Remember, I have been sick. I also have some brain fade going on.

That night, I had forgotten to take my medications, but I slept just fine.

The dreams . . . well . . . .

I was sleeping with a woman. She's someone I know somewhat, but whom I have never dated. It was nice. We were comfortable, warm and happy. Then -- in the dream -- I fell asleep. I dreamed that I was sinking lower and lower, and the world was starting to fade out. I was convinced that I was dying, and that if I didn't struggle to get back up to where I had been, that I would actually die. (Sort of like a drowning dream, but not quite.) Then the woman reached down and pulled me up to safety and back into bed with her, then I woke up.

It was one of those very realistic dreams, and I was a bit shaken.

I would be interested in comemnts.

Random thoughts

• If you like science fiction, read "World War Z."



• If you like baseball, read "Love Me, Hate Me," about Barry Bonds.



• If you like music, next Tuesday you need to pick up the new Great Big Sea DVD/CD, "Courage and Patience and Grit." Trust me on this one.



• The Firefox "Stumble" key is kinda cool.



• It frightens me that I can quote limited parts of East King Law & Policy.



• If you were the bacitracin, where would you be?



• Where did the Oreos go?