Entry: 78
14 January 2004

I'm at my grandfather's house watching TV with my dad. We are both sitting in comfy chairs while Steve is cleaning. "I'll be watching 19," he says, indicating that there's a soap opera he wants to watch coming up on channel 19. In the meantime, I'm flipping between channels 23 and 31 which are FX and the History Channel. The two channels are lined up so that they're never playing commercials at the same time.

The show is a documentary about Batman being Billy the Kid. He's dressed as a cowboy but with the familiar Batman colors and logo. Gangsters come to get him, so he sets up a huge contraption with jousting poles sticking out that knock them all off their horses. The show continues to follow Batman's career and costume changes over the years up to the present time. After the documentary, a very cheesy Batman cartoon comes on.

I go to the kitchen to get a snack. Grandpa's freezer is full of Snoopy lemon cookies which are very tasty, some lemon bars I made for him which are also very yummy, and lemon flavored Butterfinger bars that I don't try. I notice skis leaning against the fridge and read the warning label.

If you go skiing at hot springs in Florida be careful about sweating in the lodge. Your seminal fluid could hurt.

I think, "How does she know this?" The label continues, telling of a night skiing experience in Idaho (the writer's from Utah) where it was so crowded with Utahns they lowered the price to 5$ and gave a coupon which expired in two and a half years for 2$ skiing. There was also a meter on the label colored red, yellow, green, yellow. The red part is tiny, the green not much bigger, making most of the meter yellow.

Then I'm skiing at a place with steps instead of a frozen slope.

Entry: 79
9 February 2004

I'm at the Department of Workforce Services. There are papers pinned to a wall and people sitting in front of their papers staring at them. I look over the papers for one that belongs to me, but I don't find it where it usually is or anywhere nearby, so I think I've finished all my work.

Sr. Flores then appears and starts handing out quizzes from Spanish class. I get a very low score of 33%. I look over the quiz and see that I didn't get that many questions wrong. I deserved to get at least 80%. There was one question about Abigail Adams I left blank and I didn't put in any accent marks, but other than that, I did pretty good.

I get in my car and drive away. My commute turns into the second floor of my high school. A blonde girl takes the stairs down with me. She starts to flirt with me, but I forget her when I see old friends of mine from high school. The stairs are kind of like a freeway exit or elevator but everybody has to wait for me to get off first. I'm not sure where to get off, but feel that I can't keep everybody waiting so I get off at the end. I should have got off earlier but there was something which could go either way alphabetically (1st vs. first) and I thought it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

I then hear Eric Pellom call my name. I turn around and see him. He mentions somebody named Bilbo which gets me talking about the Lord of the Rings movies. I say, "You won't believe it, just yesterday I had a dream we reunited." Though I can't remember the details. Eric says, "No way!"

After a sarcastic comment is made by the life guard/receptionist kid, I say, "Sarcasm. I love high school. This is my kind of place." I half realize I'm too old to be in high school, but think that if Eric's here there must be some reason that we're here. I think we should exchange numbers so we don't lose touch again, but Eric says, "Wait, let me write this down." He then draws a pretty good scetch of the sarcastic kid sitting on the couch including the design on his shirt. The kid moves when he sees he's being drawn.

We then lay on a bed together. Feeling the sheets, I find grape Tylenol. Eric says, "I should take it in case it's something more insidious."

I say, "I started taking these, but they didn't do anything. You might laugh but I'm going to keep taking them and they'll make me healthy."

There are also many pink square pills that belong to me on the bed.

Entry: 80
25 February 2004

I'm exploring a large house by flashlight. There's one hall made of cheese. I notice a second hall is made of blueberry muffins by the smell. I break off a piece of the wall and eat some and it tastes quite good.

I'm not the only one here. The detective and her lover are getting ready for bed. There is a very serious priest with his retinue. Brent and Steve are discussing the Art Bell show. They help me look for my flashlight which turns out to be in my pocket.

The house is large and empty. In one room I find a CD, The Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons by Blonde Redhead. Under the stairs I discover a robotic chimp with two different colored eyes. It looks somewhat like a gremlin with part of its face eaten away and it moves by wheels hidden underneath it. It bites me all over my arm and also bites Sean. Someone suggests that we should call animal control. The thing finally dies. I take a close up picture of it for insurance. Then I see the wooden spoon it holds in its hand move. It's still alive.

I take a picture of my arm. I'm afraid it's infected. I notice there are 18 pictures on my camera. One of them is of a very beautiful sunset.

Entry: 81
7 October 2004

There are seven of us, four guys and three girls, trying to escape from a school building with monsters inside. Only Buffy is powerful enough to stand up to the monsters, the rest of us are running away. Buffy and I escape from the building with another girl and a tall guy. We left three people behind. Buffy asks if we're all right, then we see Steve emerge from the building. He stands behind the railing of the wheelchair ramp and shouts down at us.

"What happened back there?" Steve demands.

"I confused them," Buffy says.

"The plan was to split up." Steve continues to upbraid Buffy. Two people were left behind because she didn't follow the plan.

The three of us walk away while Steve continues to scold Buffy. We know Buffy is going to come back to the school tonight to continue investigating the building, and all three of us are thinking about going back with her.

The girl says Buffy seemed to like me. I thought Buffy liked her more than me and told her so. The tall fellow and I joke with her about Buffy being in love with her because we both have a crush on Buffy, but she didn't give us much notice.

"She doesn't love me like I love my adopted sister," she says.

"You're afraid she'll take your adopted sister?" I ask.

"No, not like that. It's an adopted sister thing."

The three of us cross the street in heavy traffic. Despite the fact that it's not raining, I'm holding an umbrella above my head, arm fully extended upwards. The umbrella is in its most compact form all folded up, so even if it were raining, it would provide little protection from the elements indeed. The umbrella is behaving like an insistent balloon, trying to float away. If I let go, it will float up into the sky. The girl is glad that I've become distracted with keeping my umbrella from floating away and stopped joking with her about Buffy.

Entry: 82
8 October 2004

Stewie from Family Guy is running around the inside of a large building. There is a group of overweight reporters wishing to interview him at every turn. He tells himself, "Remember, Mom's not in charge anymore." This is because his mother is dead. He is able to avoid answering more than a couple questions from each group of reporters before running away from them.

Everybody walking down the hallways is overweight except for one woman who is an investigator. She tells Stewie, "I'm no chubby Mormon. You won't be able to get away from me as easily." Stewie turns into me and I run from the woman, realizing that everyone in the building is Mormon. I jump down a set of stairs and see the investigator facing me. I knock her down and stomp on her head until it caves in.

The next scene is at a schoolyard playground. It's three in the afternoon. Miguel Ferrer's character from Crossing Jordan is walking with a school teacher. They are flirting. The school teacher is talking about how the school closes at 3:00, but she has to stay a few minutes later to close up. Miguel says, "Autopsy closes at this time too, but then I can just go home."

Just then the light near the fence goes out, leaving a completely pitch black circle where the light was. I realize the light is timed to go off at this time everyday, which is lucky for me since I am hiding from Miguel. I jump into the shadow and become effectively invisible even though he is standing not ten feet away from me.

"I want that light on," he shouts, "I don't care if it's 3:25 or 3:47."

Using a second light which conveniently turns off right when I need it to, I escape from the schoolyard. However, I hear my mom behind me, telling them that I was the one responsible for whatever crime has just happened. I know I didn't commit the crime because it requires a superpower I don't possess and mom knows I don't have that superpower. I feel her betrayal keenly. "But I don't do that!" I try to tell her.

I then notice some tire tracks in the mud leading away from the scene. "The Diablo GTO is the only thing that can make these tire tracks," I say, making up a car name to throw suspicion away from me.

Entry: 83
10 October 2004

I'm at my Grandma's house which is infected with rats, bats, and spiders. Mom covers a dead rat with poinsoned cheese. A giant jumping spider drops suddenly from the ceiling, eats the cheese - rat and all - and disappears into the stove. I wonder if the cheese is poisoned or if cheese naturally kills spiders because they have a different body. Back in the laundry room there are trophy heads on the wall as well as the corpse of a giant spider on display.

I'm being initiated into a gang. We are driving in a van towards a mansion. Part of the initiation is throwing something away before we get there. The leader tells me to throw away the super poison he just gave me. I want to keep it, but I have nothing else, so I toss it out the window. It lands on the lawn of the house we're pulling up to and I think I can retrieve it later when no one's looking. Technically I didn't throw it away fast enough, but the leader likes me, so he says that counts towards my initiation.

The gang gets out of the van and heads towards the mansion. I'm the last one out of the van. It looks like a long drop from the van to the ground, but when I open the door, a couple stairs fold out. I examine them and they become detatched. I'm curious about how many steps there are and try to hurriedly count them before everyone leaves me behind, but the number keeps changing. Some of the other guys help me count the steps and there turns out to be about fifty.

I reattach them, but now it looks like I can't close the door with the stairs in the way. I close the door anyway and the stairs fold up, however the light in the van stays on. I slam the door, but the lights remain on. I go back inside the van. There is no switch to turn the lights off, only three sets of exposed wires.

Entry: 84
11 November 2004

I'm in the stadium of my old high school looking down at the football field. There is a kind of track and field competition going on, but with weird events. There is a noose hanging down near the end of the sand pit for the long jump. The contestants want to jump as far as they can without jumping so far their head winds up in the noose. There is another event called 'the ball breaker' where you have to climb a rope with a tire around your waist. If you let go of the rope and fall, you'll injure yourself on the knot at the bottom of the rope. An event which I take part in involves doing pushups on a spring horse and then attacking it in six key points. Ping pong is also being played on the field.

Later, I'm in a haunted house. I see three infant skeletons ahead of me. I kick one of their skulls to show that I'm not afraid. This house has jagged angled hallways. Anyone can jump out at any time. When I get to the kitchen I find the sanitation commissioner. He lives here with his lover, John Waters. There's something frightening about him.

Entry: 85
18 November 2004

I'm at a drive through doctor's office which is reminiscent of an oil change place. I pull up to the window for a quick check up. The doctor tells me I'm in perfect health - there's just a small irregularity with my heart he needs to check on. I pull off to the side to let other cars pass while I wait for my results.

He tells me I have a heart arythmia. "You must have surgery now or you could die," he tells me. I don't quite trust him. I ask why my other doctor didn't take notice of it. He doesn't know why. I ask how much the surgery will cost. He doesn't tell me, but I know it's going to be expensive. I tell him I have to get to work. I go to my car to leave. Someone is sitting in the driver's seat, but he's just backing the car up. I change the radio preset and he turns down the volume.

Among the guys hanging around in the garage/doctor's office, I recognize Wade from my high school cross country team. He tells me he started doing this in the missionary training center. I reluctantly let them begin prepping me for surgery. They'll need to saw off the top of my head. I'm already late for work, I'm supposed to take antibiotics before surgery, and I can't afford it. On the other hand, I might die if I don't get surgery right now. I try to leave anyway.

Entry: 86
25 November 2004

I'm in the mafia. We've got a bus full of hostages and we're stopping to make a pick up. One of our guys is speaking with the contact.

"How many bags you need? 3? 5?"

"5. No, 7."

"7?"

"I'm just kidding with you boss."

The big boss is off in the distance, then he enters the bus. He wants to know what's taking so long. While they talk to each other up front, I joke around with Legs and Hat in the back of the bus. There's some sort of problem up front and eventually the other group leaves. One of them, who I think of as Mystery Man, says to our driver, "You'll never see me again," in a very sinister way before leaving.

Legs turns to me and says, "Let me get you a real pair of pants" because I'm just wearing my gym shorts. Hat, a blonde woman, starts flirting with me, then ties me up and runs away. She pins Legs' legs together. "Nevermind about the pants," I tell him, "I'm going after her." Hostages start getting off the bus.

Legs and I chase her, but once we get surrounded by cops, I start to chase him, pretending I'm a cop too. I chase him into a toy store. I have a handful of small plastic disks which I throw at people's feet to make them slip or toss one at a time like chinese stars. I carry them with both hands cupped together, but when I'm running, I hold them in my fists. Legs has one disk that he holds like a knife between his fingers.

I trade my disks for a girl scout bow and arrow with a suction cup where the tip of the arrow should be. Someone else shoots Legs in the knee with a real arrow. He disappears. My childhood friend Paul Maxfield is playing with a race car set. I watch him for awhile, then say, "Wait, that's it!" hoping an idea will come to me, but instead, I'm as confused as ever about where Legs went.

Then I say, "A man crawling down the street would be quite conspicious, so he must be here still." Just to make sure, I look down the street and see him crawling along with his wounded knee. He jumps up from his crawl and starts running. I chase after Legs and his friend chases after me. I throw his friend down to a lower level and run past him.

When I catch up, I find two members of SWAT standing on either side of Legs. I yell, "He's the perp!" but he says I'm the criminal. They fire several machine gun rounds at me. I think I'm dead but really I'm not. They must not have been aiming at me.

Entry: 87
26 November 2004

There are a bunch of chicks, geese, etc. on grandpa's front porch. The chicks are inside the doorway. None can fly. I try to move them to the backyard. The Canadian goose pecks at me when I pick it up. Cameron Diaz throws the chicks at the dogs. They disappear in a puff.

Pulling up to Dave's house, I notice that the Wal-Mart next door built an extension so that Dave's house is now surrounded by Wal-Mart on all sides. A few of us go to check out the new extension, which looks more like a mall than a Wal-Mart inside. Most of the stores are closed, but we notice Subway is open.

"Call Subway and see if they have the pot stickers," Dave askes.

"Ya, they've got 'em," I say.

"No, they don't make a stack of 'em. I meant call ahead and order."

"It's right over there," I point out the store. "Why don't you go ahead and walk."

There's a spider swinging back and forth from a string trying to hit people and a little kitty trying to bite me. I notice old folks talking and changing babies' diapers in a back room.

"Wait here," I say. Then I wander off. I find Brent and family at a pizza place. I wander through an arcade and past a bar. Dave comes out of nowhere and shoves me. I'm annoyed by him.

We walk around some more, eventually winding up in grandma's backyard. Ian Zeigle is there, among others. One kid keeps annoying me. I shove him and he gets so badly hurt he has to go back in time to undo it. I touch the fence at the back of grandma's yard and turn around, as if I'm ahead in a race. In the process I hurt two others without meaning to. I paralyze Matt Hobson and hurt another kid.

Someone pulls out a laptop and gets stats on Matt and the other kid. On the first screen, the computer shows a picture of a cartoon mouse that's supposed to be Matt. The computer shows us that the other kid was named nepTUNIDES. There is also an animated graphic of a pirate mouse. A wise cracker asks, "Does he get his own ship?"

When we look up from the computer screen we see that they have disappeared.

"They're gone. They must have went back in time and lived," I say.

"How did they go back in time?" someone asks.

"We'll call it X (the right joystick), the T (time button on top of controller), and space bar."

A giant dragon robot crushes a white van into a small compact size, picks it up, then breathes fire on it making it disintegrate. Someone says, "Soon she'll be everywhere." This refers to the fact that someone evil was inside the van. A wise cracker says, "Wait, my hat was in there."

Entry: 88
8 December 2004

Dad instructs us to divide our extra Christmas presents into four different piles. Two of the piles go to two different charities, the other two go to people we barely know

I eat something gritty and crystaline which really makes my teeth hurt. Steve and I get into a car. We're going to pick up Brent then we have a long drive ahead of us. I'm tonguing my teeth because they hurt so bad but find that they are loose. I start coughing up teeth and blood into my hand. Steve doesn't notice as he's busy driving. As I keep coughing up more teeth and the taste of blood gets stronger in my mouth, I wonder if this is a dream. I also think about how loosing teeth is one of the most common dreams and the interpretation has something to do with having said something you shouldn't have. I decide this isn't a dream because it's so realistic including the long boring car ride where nothing happens. I ask if Steve's teeth hurt because he ate the same thing as me. "Now that you mention it my teeth do hurt," he says. I speak normally despite missing most of my teeth which Steve still hasn't noticed. I suggest we go home before our big drive which he's relieved to hear. We arrive at grandma Atwood's house where Brent and Steve live. Steve drives onto the front lawn because we're supposed to park the car in the backyard. Steve does a donut on the front lawn to let a man into the backyard ahead of us. I need to vomit blood and am becoming impatient for the car to stop.

Entry: 89
16 December 2004

I pick up a CD I used to listen to a long time ago. Pat asks me what the band's name is and I read it off the album cover, "Whitey White Men." I look over the track listing on the back. One of the song titles half way through is in Hebrew and the final song is Schelniecht Night, ("shelniecht" being Hebrew for Silent) which is a traditional Christmas carol but sung partly in Hebrew to show the unity of the Christian and Jewish faiths. I haven't listened to this album forever and have forgotten what it sounds like, but I'm eager to be reminded. When I look at the album cover again, the band's name has changed to "Broken Glass Heart" and I think I just must have read it wrong the first time.

In addition to several CDs, which I'm holding precariously in one hand, I also have the old blue backpack I used in high school. Pat and I are walking around the inside of our high school in a circle, talking about the CD. One of the CD cases in my hand is open making it ackward to carry. I notice there aren't many other students around, and soon there is an announcement over the speakers that the school is closing. In fact, metal gates roll down from the ceiling behind us so we can't go back.

Pat reaches his locker and starts to open it. I need to get to my locker because that's where I left my black bag with my gym clothes. The area where my locker is located was behind us, so it might be sealed off already, but I hope that it will still be open because even though it's behind me, I can walk ahead down the curving hallway to get to it.

I run the whole way to my locker. In fact, I'm moving so fast my feet barely touch the ground. However, I find that the gate has closed and I can't get to my locker. There's another kid who wanted to get into the same area I did, but discovered the gate had sealed him off. He is joined by two friends who emerge from a side passage. They find that the gate is closed and turn to see me running towards them. One points a gun at me, which I think of as a potato gun. The three of them run towards me, and I'm afraid for a moment, but they just end up running past me and I run up to the gate.

I look through the gate and see the gray haired security guard from work. I realize the gate doesn't reach the ceiling and try to climb it, but I can't get a foothold anywhere. Then, I climb the corner where the gate meets the wall and I'm able to peek over to the other side. I see a janitor is already there polishing the floor. So far I was just seeing if it was possible for me to climb the gate. I don't know if I should actually do it. Since there is someone there who would see me, I decide against it.