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26 - Chicagoland - educator - loves his doggo Rocko

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Dreampost 5

No dreams last night

Can’t dream if you can’t sleep

[gillianandersons]

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Dreampost 4

Only one I’ve managed to hold on to since waking up:

I am at my mother’s home. It is around 11:00pm-1:00am, it is late, unreasonably late, to be making a cake, which is what I am doing.

It is a two-tiered vanilla cake, the tiers are the same size and shape, and it has come out of the oven perfectly. Perfectly circular, not a crack or a crumb out of place. I am just beginning to frost it. My mom comes down to the kitchen to help me, but she realizes I’m very serious about this cake and that her help isn’t needed. She’s proud. She helps me find a few different colors of frosting - black and white - so I can make a weird mystical “swirl” pattern that probably only exists in my mind. I take a couple of spoonfuls from the jars for myself, since there’s way more frosting than I’ll need for this one cake.

I want cake.

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WAIT FOR THE ENDING

more baby animals here

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@dravvings

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Dreampost 3

Three memorable dreams from last night

1.) Basically just me going through a strange version of Dark Souls that my mind has put together. I have been having a lot of dreams like this lately. Basically it’s just as terrifying, tense, and stressful as the video game, except it feels real. This one had elements of J.R.R. Tolkien thrown in towards the end, i.e. large fantasy-themed battles and confrontations, with me on the front lines. Then last thing I remember is an army of pit bulls charging at an army of nondescript zombie dogs.

2.) I am at some kind of cool store in my hometown where you can freely use PCs, like an Internet cafe but better and with really good computers. I go out to my car for a minute to grab something, and when I turn around my boss from my previous job - a respectable but fierce older woman who is not currently fond of me - is hanging out right by the entrance. Obviously I want to avoid speaking with her, so I walk hurriedly across the parking lot towards the strip mall on the other side. The sky is grey with low-hanging clouds, on the verge of raining like most of my dreams that take place in my hometown. The opposite strip mall has a Chipotle and some weird little gym, like Planet Fitness but tiny and with like four machines. I don’t go to Chipotle because in both my dream and in real life I am trying to save money and cultivate healthy eating habits *eyes roll at self* so I go into the gym. I notice my boss is also walking towards the strip mall, and I assume she has no reason to go into the gym, so I hang out just inside the entrance. What do you do when you’re at a gym just to avoid talking to someone and not because you’re actually going to work out? Well I notice my boss walking towards the entrance, her black heels clacking on the pavement, so I rush over to the counter. There simply isn’t enough time to explain the situation - I’m here to avoid someone not to exercise - so I kind of just look at the two staff members with a pleading look as my former boss walks in and starts making very aggressive and judgmental small talk with me AND the staff members, asking me about my new job, etc. Apparently she’s at the gym because she does some kind of weird part-time management and is there to grab a couple things from the back. I sign a weird little piece of paper that gym members sign, because at this point I need to act like I went to the gym on purpose, and I go over to a treadmill and just run until she leaves. It’s at that point I go and explain myself to the nice staff, who totally understand my predicament. I go outside to find that due to construction and renovation, the Internet cafe has been completely demolished, so I go back into the gym and run on the treadmill some more.

3.) My boyfriend and I go to see the new Star Wars movie (The Last Jedi), and despite our enthusiasm it turns out to be absolutely terrible. It’s nothing like any of the previous movies, just a bunch of cameos, trippy graphics, and too many Death Stars. We kept texting and getting up to use the bathroom, and an hour into it we noticed half the audience had left. We wouldn’t leave though because as true Star Wars fans we had to stick it through. The last thing I remember is a Death Star shooting at Earth, which doesn’t make sense because the series takes place in a galaxy far, far away… but the laser doesn’t completely destroy the planet, it just leaves a huge gaping crater, and the Earth gradually crumbles apart. So bad!

[americasgreatoutdoors]

Strolling by the water at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Indiana is a serene experience. The sun sparkles on the water and the breeze blows your troubles off your shoulders. Whether you enjoy scouting for rare species of birds or flying kites on the sandy beach, the national lakeshore’s 15,000 acres will continually enchant you. Even seeing the Chicago skyline 35 miles away across Lake Michigan makes it seem like the rest of the world is far away. Photo by National Park Service.

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Weird Dinner Post 1

sometimes instead of cooking you just gotta follow the lazy cravings

1.) 6 bites pasta salad

2.) 2 bites cottage cheese

3.) small bowl of rice crispies

[science]

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[libraryjournal]

[signal-failure]

Person with housemates can study.

Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.

Cool community classes and community art shows.

ESL tutoring.

Tax prep and forms.

[talixagain]

tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries

[diplotomodon]

Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.

[smallswingshoes]

The library was how I was able to read so many books as a kid that my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford.

[beeps-bravely-through-her-fear]

Every time we have a school budget vote that’s linked to a library budget vote I watch the results roll in and I am APPALLED that there are so many fucking assholes who vote NO on the library. IT’S THE LIBRARY. The whole CONCEPT of a public library still amazes and DELIGHTS me. Go fuck yourself no voters.

[science70]

Herman de Vries, V72-101 (random objectivation), 1972.

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Great day with my babes