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02:15 - 09.04.06 I had an odd dream early this morning. In it my supervisor from one contract ago - over one year ago - showed up at my home for a visit. He appeared to be about seven years old and his Mom had brough him over to be looked after. At seven he was really cute. One of those slender little live wires who can't sit still. Thick curly dark hair with a curl in the middle of his forehead. It was obvious he hated it, but he wasn't going to cross his mom - uh uh. My home in the dream seemed to be a split level bungalow. Just varying heights to the different rooms/levels with a few steps leading up or down. We went into a room just off to the right of the front door and found it was a play/ rec room full of toys. I seemed to have a house full of my own children as I do now, although not the same ones as I have now. They were all about that age range too - pre-school to elemetary school age - and appeared to be good friends. He hadn't been to our home before, but decided he liked it based on the comfort of familiar faces and those toys in the playroom. His favorite among a bunch of ride on animal figures was a hippopotamus. It was quite real looking in miniature. Then the cats decided it was time to play catch the mice - my toes - in real time and I woke up. Can't imagine what that signifies. Maybe it is connected to the new exhibit being created in the zoo of "animals of the Arctic". I am still wondering how an authentic recreation of permafrost and muskeg, not to mention temperatures that others would consider -well arctic - are going to be replicated here in the "south" but engineering wonders are a specialty aren't they? Got up and checked the JK Rowling site to see if our "Test Results" had arrived by owl. They had indeed. The allowed time for the exam was 25 minutes, but my youngest and I had run through the questions in less than half of that. We didn't look up anything, just gave it our best guess. Our mark was "exceeds expectations" which isn't bad, since we were being asked to remember minute details about obscure wizarding laws and practices from about 3000 pages of material. Apparently one of the fan sites provided information on how to enter the secret door and offered up cheat sheets for those who wanted to use them. It seems that one could take the exam more than once too. Found out about that today when I was trying to find a copy of the questions just to try and figure out what answers we'd missed. I'm not sure why one would go to all that trouble since it is just meant to be for fun, but whatever. Between Friday night and Saturday morning, there was a direct opposition between Mr Mars and Mr Pluto astrologically, in the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius respectively. Smoldering anger and confrontation between the gods of war and the underworld. Think nuclear meltdown. This story in the news this morning sort of summed it up or is the typical interpretation of what the aspect implies. Then on the TV news tonight a similar story but with a creative twist - a new sport evolving out of an old one. "Hockey fighting". My youngest was laughing uproariously as it was being demonstrated and debated. Some times hormones just can't be overcome by any parenting techniques. That Y chromosome at work. The premise of the sport is that the puck is removed from the game and all that is undertaken is the fighting that sometimes seems to be all that happens anyway. Yes well, not much better but at least no deaths. It will likely be a big money maker for the sponsors although the one fellow complained it might over-shadow boxing as a sport. What a shame. There were a lot of other stories about direct agression and power over others in the news as well and that was depressing. Maybe the best use of that energy - other than a whirlwind house cleaning - was this one about the restitution of a woman's reputation long after whe was torured and murdered here in Canada for a crime she didn't commit and the stopping of a similar hanging mobs actions on the streets of one of our sister cities yesterday. Yes actually the courts do often know best. At lest the give everyone some chance to speak their piece. The best one though is this one about actually compensating the victims of an abuse of systemic power. See even the worst aspects can be turned to good if the conditions for retrieving the balance of power are created. � � |