What The Hell Day Is It, Anyway?

[lydamorehouse]

 Holidays should not be allowed to fall on Mondays. I feel very confused. Apparently, it is TUESDAY and will be all day. I have a very bad feeling that I will not be able to remember this and, for an entire week, will be one day behind. Or ahead. I was, in fact, going to tell you all about the manga I've been reading, but TOMORROW is Wednesday, not today.

Today feels a lot like Monday because, in addition of having to take Shawn back to work, I woke up from several dreams of being behind on something. Do you have reoccurring dreams? There was a time when I got really into dream interpretation and I started keeping a dream journal. I discovered as part of that process that I actually have a LOT of dreams that are basically the same theme, only different. Like, there will be that one about a car without brakes (usually when I feel overwhelmed or, obviously, otherwise out of control in my life,) the one about being late for a test/con panel/[fill-in-the-blank] (when I feel like I've forgotten to do something), or, strangely, that one about my deep-seated, subconscious terror of elevators (just... irrational fears time, friends!)  I actually stopped recording my dreams when I started remembering nearly all of them (up to five in a single night) and some of them seemed to be straying into "things maybe left for the subconscious to work out, quietly, unobserved, on its own" territory.

At any rate, the dream of missing something prompted me to look back on my emails and discover that, in fact, I did have something pending.

I needed to review the .pdfs of my first five novels, which Wizard's Tower Press will be putting out in new print editions this February. They will be a kind of 25th anniversary edition with a new forward by me... and HARDCOVER editions. So, if you still have ratty, yellowing copies of my original novels, this might be the year to consider replacing them with sturdier, updated copies! Just sayin'  I will let you know when they go on sale, of course. But, so like, I worked on that and it felt very start of the work week for me, too. 

I'm doomed.

Comments

[sartorias]

Recurring dreams, definitely so.

[lydamorehouse]

I think most people do to some extent? I'm just fascinated by how often some of the subjects are even the same. Like, you can go up to someone you barely know and they will probably have had That One about discovering that, even though they're an adult, they are suddenly back in high school because they didn't take one class needed to graduate and now they 1) can't find their locker/don't know the combination or 2) can't find the classroom, or 3) some combination of the above but are also dressed inappropriately or possibly not at all.

[sartorias]

Yup! Even though dreams largely don't make a lot of sense, there still seem to be patterns common to...all humans? Cultures? Maybe both? Or, is the one about missing a class mostly common to women? Weird, slippery subject.

[offcntr]

I had this one for weeks, back at Viterbo because I hadn't finished my bachelor's degree. The one night my brain said, "Wait, this doesn't matter. I have a Masters degree already!

Haven't been back to that dream since.

I still get radio station anxiety dreams though.

[lcohen]

i have the normal "i'm in college and i haven't gone to any of my classes and the final's tomorrow" or "i'm in a different dorm and i don't know where any of my stuff is" dreams, on occasion. but for many years, when i was a kid, i would periodically have a dream where i saw a grown woman dressed in black at a funeral and i would know that the woman was me and i was at my mother's funeral. i did not grow up to look much like that woman, and i stopped having that dream, but it was very unsettling while i had it.

good luck with all your reviewing of PDFs!

[profiterole_reads]

I was lost with weekdays last week. Apparently, I got used to it, since it's working better for me this week, but hopefully not too used to it, because next Monday is not a holiday any more. lol

[oracne]

Ooh, hardcovers! How lovely!!!

[kore]

They will be a kind of 25th anniversary edition with a new forward by me... and HARDCOVER editions

NICE!

I figure I will have dreams about having to take a test/write a final semester paper/find a classroom while completely naked until I am ninety or something.

Someone else who is terrified of elevators! GOD they're horrible. Tiny moving death boxes!

[sabotabby]

Hardcover editions! W00t congrats!

[pameladean]

Ooo, hardcovers! Congratulations!

I am also hopelessly confused about the days of the week. My holiday season used to be anchored by a couple of parties that were prudently not held this year and I'm completely afloat and probably hear mermaids singing but not in the good way.

I've had all those recurring dreams and also a travel one where I can't get packed in time for a flight because I have lost a bunch of vital objects. All these anxiety dreams have the feature that they slow down gradually and everything takes hundreds of times longer than it should. The only saving grace is that if the dream is about being back at high school, this weird effect allows me to painstakingly start thinking -- not my forte in dreams as a rule -- and to realize that there is no way I'm still in high school, this is a dream; and then it's over, thank goodness, how is this stuff RESTFUL?

P.

[xochiquetzl]

NEW PRINT EDITIONS!!! SQUEEEEE!!!

And yeah, I have no idea what day it is half the time. ;) But the holidays are extra disorienting!