Finally, it’s all finished

So the good news is that I am finally finished with the semester. The whole ordeal was painstaking. School of Social Work makes sure that everyone’s is on her last straw at the end of the semester by not giving time off during finals week (note that I wrote ‘her’ since the school is full of about 782 women and 13 men). So everyone was writing papers while going to classes and work. I’ve been writing frantically every day, writing so much that my 20 page paper became a 30 page paper and my 10 page paper became a 12 page paper. By the end of the week, my brain was completely fried, I would mumble something to people and no one understood anything I was saying. Not that anyone ever understands me but this time it was extra bad because even I wasn’t sure what I was saying any more.

In all this paper-writing delirium, I also had the weirdest and most intense dreams. Last Monday, in my dream, I was sitting in a New York City bus on the way home from the North 7^th stop on the L and all of the sudden, these two men broke out in a fight. They were really punching the crap out of each other and everyone around them was shrieking and scrambling to get away. And although I was scared and I kept telling myself that I really should get away as soon as possible, I didn’t budge. But the fear and panic felt real and I may have been screaming while dreaming. Not that there is anyone to verify my screaming but that’s a whole new post I am not going to dwell into. I am not sure why I dreamt about a fight although I did take a bus from my yoga class earlier that evening. So Freudian dream interpreters, fire away!

On top of this dream, later in the week, I had a weirder dream. I was at work in a conference room on the 8^th floor a building. Instead seeing the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I saw water that came up to the 8^th floor with snowcapped mountains in the background. At some point, rockets started flying around and planes started exploding into the mountains. At the same time, these cranes emerged from water and started swinging around for no reason. And a group of old people came out of an exit to the side to take a dip in what seemed to be freezing cold water. When they realized that the world was going bonkers around them, they all decided to swim back to the building. I am not feeling super descriptive today so instead, I doodled a lovely picture for you below. I just realized that I forgot to add this creature that popped out of nowhere and started climbing up the window, staring at me and my colleagues. Judging by the expression on its face, it seemed really angry and it kept jutting its sharp tongue over its spiky little teeth. I could even see its little suction cups that attached to the glass so that the little creature wouldn’t fall off. I woke up, feeling really confused.

And then, I had another weird dream where I was scared crapless as well, but I forgot it the minute I got into the shower.

But I am glad the semester is all over with. My plans for the break are to eat, sleep, and finally get back to all the people whom I haven’t seen in weeks. So if you’re one of them, call me! I’ll pick up this time, I promise.