10/29/01
Contagion!

Yesterday my dream had to do with me missing recording Dragon Ball Z repeatedly. Wasn't very pleasant.

Today's I can't remember very well, but it's all I recall and was a bit odd.

I think I had been watching the news, local news, and they were talking about an anthrax-like thing that was spreading around, only I think this WAS infectious. I do know that cough was a symptom. They mentioned someone had died and I was thinking, "Another one?" I think there had been only a few deaths so far, but of course people were freaked out.

The person on TV--I think it was 7&4 News--mentioned that the latest death was from Cheboygan--MY hometown. I wasn't really frightened by this--in fact, I thought it was kind of cool, and was wondering who would freak out over it. I think Ma was wandering around in another room and she heard them mention a death and said, "Where was it this time?"

"Cheboygan," I said, hoping to get a shock out of her. I'm not sure if I did, as the scene changed.

Now I was downtown, with a class of mine; I think the teacher was Ms. K., who was my art teacher in high school. It was cool, dry, and sunny, like autumn; we wore jackets and walked along the street or sidewalk. There was VERY little traffic because of the "outbreak" (the death). So I remember leaving the right-hand sidewalk (I was near the paper mill, at least, near where it is in real life; perhaps I was a bit before that) and wandering around into the road itself. The other students were walking along behind me. I can't recall all that happened, but we did a lot of walking and encountered a few city people. I remember coming to a street corner on the left side and stopping and coughing into my hand, hoping to scare a few people. :) I don't know why I was being so antisocial. I think one or two glanced at me but that was about it.

I seem to think there was a bit more to this, at least a bit more detail, involving why we were walking around (it had something to do with our class as the teacher showed up and we all grouped together again to leave)...and I seem to remember time, or a clock (perhaps up on a building?), having something to do with it...but I don't know what it was...



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