5.31.01

last night i dreamt that i had enrolled in some sort of GRE study course. only when i arrived it turned out to be a combination GRE study course and entrance exam for the peace corps. it turned out that getting through the peace corps exam is really competitive, and so everyone there had come up with some sort of gimmick to get themselves noticed by the judges/instructors. there was a girl there named kim. at some point her friends whipped out a can of pink hair spray and stripped her hair fluorescent pink and she became Crazy Kimmy, and she wrote that all over her computer monitor in sequined letters. i was there, with zeke, only he wasn’t tigger-stipped, he was a fluffy white cat. and he was stuffed into a big clear glass of water. he didn’t seem terribly unhappy about this, but imagine what a fluffy white cat would look like, all soggy and with his face smooshed up against the glass. that’s what he looked like. i became the Girl with the Cat. lauren was there too. she had decided to wear a long grey cloak and a purple felt tri-point hat (three musketeers style), drawn low over her face so that she looked like a walking cape with a purple hat nestled on it’s shoulders. her gimmick, not surprisingly, was that she was the Girl with the Hat. we didn’t do very much studying for the GRE or testing-taking for the peace corps, we mostly just ran around demonstrating our weirdnesses. embarassingly, i hadn’t known in advance about this whole distinguish-yourself-thing, so i was lucky that i happened to have an albino cat in a jar with me when i got to the test center.