*note- like most americans, my dreams are quite often filled with a cast of characters from my high school life whom I haven't seen or spoken to in years.

grocery shopping with peter yetman (high school person) in a huge, tons of aisles grocery store. peter is my boyfriend in this dream and doesn't want to be shopping at all, I keep losing him in the store and he has the basket. I am picking out crackers for tea and I can't decide which I want and then I'm not sure why I want any crackers at all. there is a girl behind me on a cell phone talking about her play that's opening called "pointed whip" or something, she's all high and mighty and very full of herself. She belittles me somehow and I think, I'm a playwright too, you bitch. I am in a green 16th century dress with puffy sleeves and silk ribbons, silver sparkley trim, it is my costume for a show I'm supposed to be in. I see Monika Bustamante, she's in costume too. I try to find out from her when and where this show I'm in is but she doesn't know either. I've lost peter again in the store and when I try to find him I go through a side door that spits me out into the street. The street is rainy, dark, I see a sign, the name of the street is ANNIE, and a chunk of the awning, made of rock, falls in front of me. I think "this building is falling apart". I go back into the store and find Peter, the basket is weighing his arm down and he looks exhausted. I apologize profusely and give him lots of kisses, he is very understanding. Later in this same dream, I am trick or treating with a group of people, still have my dress on, and I end up at Liz Renfrew's house (also high school person), I hear of a review of the play I'm supposed to be in, I am sharing the part I'm playing with a guy who went on the first night, the review raves on and on about this man in the part, and I think, oh shit, I'm going to suck, there's no way I can compete with a drag queen.

Two nights later I am wearing the dress again in a new dream. I inspect it this time. it is gorgeous, and I look down and see it on my body and admire it and myself.