it's so funny. yesterday i blogged about wanting a plain hershey bar and then there was a whole box of them at the asce bonfire last night so i took two. i guess sometimes it's possible to get what i want.

but rewind to the weird dreams i was talking about.

i had this dream last quarter and it was so weird and sad that i think i almost cried when i woke up. it goes like this:

i'm on my way to an asce party (so naturally most of the asce people are there). i park my car behind PSLH, which in itself is weird because my permit doesn't even work there. anyway, i get out of my car and one of my friends is there waiting for me. [like always, i will not mention any names.] in this blog, i'll call him CE-Boy#1. so he's like, "hey, let's go. they're waiting for us." so off to the party we go, then we meet up with the Alcoholic Chick half way. CE-Boy#1 keeps talking to me, but i keep ignoring him. then i start talking to Alcoholic Chick in tagalog (mind you! in tagalog!), and it's weird because it seems like she understands what i'm saying and she's cambodian. anyway, i'm telling her about corn chips and she's like, "oh, cool!" so then we arrive at the party and by this time CE-Boy#1 has stopped talking to me and goes to get beer with the other CE Boys. then the Major Instigator comes up to me and says, "hey, look at this! why is he shooting water?" she's pointing at a picture on the front page of a newspaper. it's a picture of Secret Life taking a shot of some clear thing from a 3-inch high shooter glass, in real time (the picture has this Harry Potter effect where the people in it are moving in real time, like in a video clip). but i'm thinking, "red plastic cups...he never told me he was going to a party." i watch him down that shot and as he puts down the shooter glass, i somehow start tasting his drink. it's vodka. plain vodka and there isn't even a chaser. i start gagging and throwing up in the bathroom. my dream ends with me throwing up some more but the taste of the vodka doesn't seem like it's going away.

i woke up and thought i still had vodka in my mouth. too weird. first of all, it was the first time i ever had a dream in tagalog. second, Alcoholic Chick understood me. third, CE-Boy#1 was waiting for me. why??? fourth, Secret Life was in it and he was drinking and i was instantaneously drinking his shot. lastly, my mouth tasted like vodka when i woke up and i didn't even drink the night before. too weird. this is what i meant yesterday when i said that some dreams seemed too real.

but i had this dream early in winter quarter. it was a long time ago and i haven't had any dreams more weird than it since then. but last night i dreamed about clocks. it was asce-related too. it's conference time again and instead of the seismic design event, there's a clock design contest. ours looks pretty sweet and it's green.