Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Work was fine yesterday. I worked with Bryan, Laura & Joe. It was pretty dead. I was still really hungry though, and I got Itallian Cheese Bread on my break, which was good (though they fucked up my order and had to remake it). I picked Mark up after work, but I was early.

I finished reading "Resistance" in the car, just after Mark got out. It was pretty good. The only problems I had with it were how they harped on the fact that the Borg Queen is the only female borg, when we've seen other female borg characters in the past. We saw them in Peter David's "Vendetta" novel. Seven of Nine was obviously female, even before she was rescued from the Collective; as was Marika(?) from "Survival Instincts". Hugh from Next Gen's "I, Borg" & "Descent, Part II" was obviously male. At the very least these characters had masculine & feminine characteristics. I think the reason they did this, is because in the Borg's first appearance on Next Generation (in 2nd Season's "Q Who?"), Q makes a big deal of pointing out that the drone that's come to the Enterprise isn't a he or a she, but that doesn't mean that this applies to every Borg. Locutus was obviously Picard, who was male. The other thing, which slightly bothered me, was that it felt slightly rushed - I mean, Picard is reassimilated, and returns to us, and he's not scarred by this at all? Of course this was very different, and could maybe even be seen as a healing experience, but I doubt there'd be zero emotional fallout from going through all that again.

Mark need to go to Meijer, so we went there, and then we went to the gas station so I could find this gum that I like. When we got out of the car, I noticed a woman in a truck at one of the pumps was pointing at us, and I figured they must know Mark, but as I pointed this out to Mark, the woman's husband, who was pumping the gas, came over and said that they were just asking about me. They're customers from Hollywood. My coworkers are constantly telling me that so & so asked about me; apparently I'm popular, or just really memorable. lol It was funny, and Mark & I talked to them for a few minutes, before getting some candy and heading home.

I tried playing my video game for a bit when I got home, but I was dead tired and went right to bed. When I woke up around 1am, I started reading the next Next Gen book, "Q & A", which I'm currently over half way through, and enjoying it quite a lot. I played more of my game as well. I chatted online. I went back to bed around 8am.

About the dreams I had before waking up at 1am. I dreamt about shopping at Food Town in Milan (which isn't there anymore), with Mark, and running into Jean Wiggin; this customer from Hollywood, who I'm sort of friends with. And she was shopping with us and chatting, and she was asking me what my work schedule was, and I told her that I had to work on Friday, and this disappointed her, as she was hoping to take me out for food and conversation that day, with her and her husband, and her husband's father. I asked if the morning would be ok, as I figured I could take her to Benny's Bakery, and she said that it wasn't because of this tradition they had...it was a nice dream.

I woke up around 2pm when the phone rang. It was Bill from work asking if I could cover his shift on Saturday. I told him I'd see what I had going on, and then tried to get back to sleep, but it just wasn't working, which was fine, as I'd slept enough. I read some more of my book. I had a snack. I read the news. I wish Clinton would just drop from the Presidential Race - I find that I don't trust her at all. The new Trailer for Star Wars Clone Wars (check out the poster)will be out this weekend. Randomness followed. lol

About my dreams before the phone call. These dreams are all very fuzzy. I only just remembered them when writing out the dream about Jean & Mark at the grocery store. These dreams involved me living in a very large city, where there was a boy that confessed he liked me, and had been searching for me, but by the time I understood this he was gone, and I realized I liked him too. It was very romantic, and odd, and beautiful... and meloncholy. And it played out over all sorts of different locations and events. My family was in this dream. And part of it was set at a concert. It's hard to translate in a description, but it was very moving. And waking up to the phone ringing really pissed me off. lol

So. I should have something to eat. I should call Michael, as I've been missing him of late. I should get ready, so that when Mark gets home from work we can go to the comic store to pick up Buffy/Angel/Trek and whatever Mark wants. I'd also like to get tested as I haven't since August, and I like to keep that up to date; maybe Mark would like to go with me. I don't know. But I need to get going.

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