Garbage and Grapes in the Highway of Life

Wow! What a great night's sleep. I actually got a full eight hours this time! While my shoulders are still stiff from workout, I do feel really rested. I remember only part of the dream I had this morning. I was walking on some highway in the direction that goes against traffic. There were no cars moving on the side of the road where I was. In the opposite direction it looked like there was a traffic jam. As I was walking, this guy on the shoulder was attempting to get on the highway. I kept telling him he's headed the wrong way but he got on anyway (even though the logical direction was correct, it was incorrect). Technically he was driving in the right direction but I kept telling him it was wrong. Afterwards, as I kept walking, I started having to climb over mounds of garbage. There was a fence to my left cutting me off from the highway. As I was contemplating climbing the fence to get out of the piles of trash, I saw lots of activity up ahead. When I got to the area, it appeared to be some type of wholesale lot that sold grapes. Tons and tons of green grapes. I asked one of the guys how much was it for a five pound bag and he said a dollar a pound. There was another woman there and she said she would split the cost with me if I wanted. I said sure. I don't remember any more. there was an earlier part of a separate dream where I remember seeing Carol...my former boss from one of the networks. I got the impression she was interviewing me for a job and it was going really well. Every time I have these dreams they are so vivid.

Anyway, lots to do as usual. I finally received a contact name at National so I need to reach out to her for aid on the project. I also have to craft a secondary survey for additional info that didn't come back from Maria's initial survey. It's getting interesting now. I only have just over a week left to get my outline and initial references done. I know I'm making myself crazy but better to do that than not care at all right? Ha ha. Oh...Lor left me the funniest voicemail yesterday evening. She made me laugh. She said that one of her classmates said something similar to her that was said to me. She said her classmate made the correlation that those of us who aren't working have nothing but time to do schoolwork and should get straight A's. She wanted to kick his teeth in (just like I did). Ha ha. I was working full time and got A's and B's. I am not currently working and got A's and B's. Just because some of us aren't working right now doesn't mean we have all the time in the world. Everyone has a cross to bear in this world. It's funny how people who say we make assumptions make up assumptions of their own. Are they saying that since people like Lor and I aren't currently working that we have nothing better to do? Only fools would imply such a thing! Her message really made me laugh and commiserate.

I heard back from Sharon. She says May is a great time in her schedule for me to visit London again. I really wanted to go to South Korea this summer but I haven't heard from Sungrim so i'm left in a state of limbo. It would be great to see Aunt Gloria and the rest of the family again. I think i'm going to look at late May and see if I can get a good ticket price. This time i'll make sure to see all of the tourist attractions I didn't get to see the first time out. I better get going. Tons of work and yet another workout. I'm going to try to kick it up a notch next week and see if I can manage four days a week on top of the workload and other life functions. I hope tonight's rain holds up until at least 11pm. It's going to be a nasty storm. At least it looks really nice out now.