“You ever have that feeling where you don’t know whether you’re awake or still dreaming?”
-Neo, The Matrix

Last night, finally in my own bed, my brain exploded with dreams. I woke up at 5 a.m. and then fell back asleep until 9, and those hours were pretty psychedelic. In one dream, a woman in a wedding dress and Grim Reaper deaths-head makeup was chasing me, followed by a bunch of angry golden retrievers, also chasing me. This can’t be good. There were long stretches where I was in fact dreaming, but it felt so real I wasn’t sure.

Then again, maybe this is the dream and I really am being chased by a skeleton in a wedding dress. I guess we’ll never know.

So many ideas. So many things to write about. I even wrote a bunch of them down, illegibly, on scraps of paper on the passenger seat as I drive home tonight from De Pere. But since my brain feels like raw hamburger stirred with a cattle prod, they’ll have to wait until tomorrow, when I hope to feel normal again. (Well, at least as normal as I get.)

My new favorite weblog, Textism, has a great reader-submitted discussion on “Which words crack you up?” My submission: bunwaddy. Go add your own.

Dean has created a beautiful, spare design, and populated it with good writing. What more could one ask for? Well, he’s also written his own blog maintenance system. I guess envy is a recurring theme this week…but in a good way.

A representative from Kraft came to Business World today to speak to the students. Considering that Kraft is a division of Philip Morris, a student asked the rep whether she had a problem working for a company that promotes cigarettes.

“We don’t promote cigarettes,” the rep said. “We just sell them.”

Mike just got called by Wired magazine to do photos for an upcoming feature on Japan. I’m in De Pere, WI, taking photos of high school students at business camp. I’m so jealous my teeth hurt. That’s not to say that Mike doesn’t deserve it – his photos are wonderful. Congratulations, Mike.

Do I need professional help after admitting that I’m really, really looking forward to Tomb Raider?

(that was a rhetorical question.)

I can’t ensure that your going to like Common Errors in English, but if not, I could care less.

Interesting historical note from the site: Eisenhower started the common practice or pronouncing it “nuk-yuh-lar,” so I guess GW has another President to blame – at least for this.

Is the United States really a better place now that Tim McVeigh has been executed?

Pop culture test: Do you know where my new ‘words mean things’ tagline (“…there is no try.”) comes from?

I am sitting in the computer lab at St. Norbert College in DePere, helping Business World high school students access their e-mail. (“Brittany does like me? Kewl!”) Judging from the past 24 hours, I probably won’t have a lot of time to post until I get back home Thursday night. My main comment from the first day and a half is, network administration is a bitch. (Wayne, you know what I’m talking about. Ack!) I was so tired when I got back to my room last night I didn’t even fire up the laptop theater for a DVD showing, which shows how tired I really was.

Why don’t computers just work?