Claudia and Duffy

Dream geeks and road trips with Harry Potter

Jeannette's last blog reminded me of a dream I had a couple of days ago - obviously the result of twoo (wow, what a misspelling, I think I'll keep it) much stress over my job search.

I dreamed that I was a candidate at a school, eating breakfast with the Res Life gang there. They were putting me through all these weird personality tests, like asking me to pray for breakfast and then one of them went into the kitchen and started banging pots around so loudly I couldn't concentrate enough to pray. What made it most disturbing was that just as I was getting ahold of myself he started banging a V-I cadence over and over with two different pans, obviously insinuating that I'd droned on long enough. I was so frazzled when I woke up!

So what I was going to tell, you, Linnea, is that I had a stroke of brilliance before I drove the four hours to King and I checked out the unabridged audio tape set for Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, which I had been planning on reading this week. A British guy, Jim Dale, reads them, and reads them well. I got so into it coming back today that I was fussing at the characters and gasping when I realized a connection before they did. Realized how bad off I was when I yelped aloud at a tense part. I think Rowling has done a good job when I can be so seriously concerned about the characters, even when I know they're eventually going to be alright. I have the last chapter or two left to go - happy tonight to me!