Dreams 8.13.14

Was in an unfamiliar lab, trying to find a particular sized erlenmeyer flask for a female authority figure (impressions I got was that I worked for her, and was supposed to know where this particular flask was).  This made me anxious, as I could not find it and was wary that she would grow impatient (and see me as incompetent).  Finally found a couple with sidearms, in one scientist's/postdoc's area in a drawer, where they'd been collecting HPLC waste.  The woman seemed to have found a flask herself, which didn't help my feeling of having failed, but I wanted her to know that this guy'd been hoarding that size, so it was his 'fault'.

themes: performance anxiety, appeasing female authority figure, buck-passage

Was in the town and at the house I grew up in, trying to get to 'school'.  Waited a bit, then I think I talked to someone who told me that the town didn't run bus routes anymore - they made no effort to help the kids get to school.  They apparently all had to be driven in and dropped off by their parents.  I communicated this to my dad in a 'Can you believe that?!' kind of way.  But there was also a brief sense of 'Hee; guess I can't go to school (today), then!'

themes: no one's making it easy for you (anymore), self-righteous indignation, escape from state-mandated indoctrination(?)