I was looking for a job and an address, and I went down this alley, and there were three swimming pools surrounded by little bungalows, and I went over to the right, through a little ally between them, and there was another pool, and then I realized I was lost, so I started walking back up the other ally and I was carrying a hula hoop and all these beautiful little black kids were walking along with me and one got a little bop in the mouth from the hula hoop and I reached down before she started crying and touched her cheek and said “I’m so sorry, sweetie, are you ok?” and she nodded, then I bopped another one and the same thing happened, then this older girl, maybe 10 or so, suggested I carry the hula hoop differently, so I did, and then I stopped bopping them. She led me to the end of this ally to this gate around a building, and I could see my car, and also these three guys come running around the right side of the gated area. She told me to hop the fence, which I did, and when I did they started coming around the other way, so I hopped back over, and she told me the timing had to be just right or I’d get beaten up trying to make it to my car. The guys kept running around, trying to catch us.

Then I was suddenly in Sally Fields’ house, it was full of hanging things and lots of pretty rocks and a whole big stage-type area, raised about 2 feet off the ground, it was full of stacked cast iron decorative racks of the rocks, little carved totems and animals and decorative things, and they were just everywhere.

She was in the bathroom and throwing these little round soaps at this hanging thing over the tub, it was made of little gutters and tunnels and she kept throwing handfuls of the soaps, and they’d bounce around and travel down the gutters and she trying to make a pattern with the sounds (they sounded like rocks on ceramic), and she finally did and it was this really pretty pattern of little clangs.

Then she was gone and I was maybe house sitting or something and she had six HUGE snails, the shells were the size of, well no, bigger than softballs, it took both hands to pick them up, and I didn’t realize they were live snails until I was trying to find where they all went in these huge jars of water with little castles and things in them. As soon as I’d put a snail in the right jar, it would come out of its shell and grab onto the side and go down into the jar, and their shells would match the decoration in the jar, but then I had two left over, and then they were cats, and they were huge and blue-grey, and over by the open door and I hurried over to close the door before they got out. Not sure if they turned back into snails then. I think they did, but I couldn’t’ find any more jars of water, so they may have stayed cats.

Then I was job hunting again and driving, and I went into a convenience store and there was a sign on the glass covering the counter that said, smokes for 2.41, there were three women behind the counter talking about the cigarette experiment and I only bought one pack, but I didn’t open it or anything (interesting fact: I can’t ever remember smoking in my dreams) then I was driving again, in a different area of town, looking for a job, exploring.

Then I was in a mall and trying to get people to participate in this film project and the one guy trying to recruit people was tall and blonde and good looking and had a microphone and when he approached people he asked them politely to participate in a film experiment, and they blew him off or ignored him. The other film project guy was James Gandolfini, very young and short with blonde hair, carrying a shoulder camera, going up to people and practically growling, “we’re trying to make a move, wanna be in it” and getting all these people to participate.

Then a meeting with James and the director and some of the people we found and I was sitting next to him and he put me on his lap cuz we were supposed to be dating and staying in character.

Then we were on this raft, in the ocean, and these two HUGE dolphins started circling the raft, and I was just delighted, very childlike in my excitement and there were at least six people from red here but I don’t remember who, but anyway the dolphins kept doing these very HIGH jumps into the air and I was the only one who was impressed and so then I slipped into the water and everyone thought I was crazy. I was hanging on to the corner of the raft and the dolphins came over and they were both kinda right next to me and one was just touching me and the other was kind of pushing me down, so I pushed it away and the other just kind of stayed next to me and I was petting it.

THEN (I slept a LONG time), there was this house on the creek, and this very old woman had been caretaking it for ever, and we were on a porch swing out front and she was laughing about how all these New York people had houses on the creek and the further back and the more isolated it was the more status they got.

That’s the last vignette I remember and it’s the fuzziest; something about crossing the bridge to the house, and a little trickle of water running along the bridge and the old woman found that funny because it was the house on the creek on the creek or something.

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