DREAMS

Hallmark cards had a vanity press division...and I found that I had a book put out by them. It was mostly a picture book, with photos taken by me of critters at a water-shore (fresh water I think). Kind of a nature story. Not sure if I wrote the story too...I seemed to have a collaborator, some girl from Europe, it seemed to me - 'Lulu'? At any rate, she was blonde, and had included a pic of herself for the back of the book blurb..and I remember feeling bad I hadn't thought to put a pic of myself as well...

I started to show it to my eldest brother, proud of my accomplishment, and as he started looking at it, he asked me if that was the best I could do...I felt Irritation at his criticism...he hadn't even looked at the whole thing yet, and he was dissing it...

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A real jumble of this and that going on in a house. It was partly a lab, there were two student workers there who were working on projects, I accidentally shut off a centrifuge one of them had been using, and at the same time people were trying to do ordinary living stuff in the house also. A woman (my 'mom'?) and I came into one rooom/lab and found the students had been lying/sleeping on some of the tables, semi-hidden. They seemed quite pleased wth themselves (but as if being silly). In another 'scene', I started going to the bathroom...while talking to my 'dad'...who seemed to be crying...I felt sympathy and tried to tell him that I knew he'd gain control of himself very shortly, when other people (including the students) started to intrude, singing I think. They seemed to be practicing some play or show they were going to do... and when I scolded them for intruding on my bathroom duties, everyone laughed (including my dad and I). They didn't leave, though. I started to feel Annoyed again...
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