Be An Angel Day
2005-08-22 @ 9:08 p.m.

Had this weird dream yesterday, by which I mean the early hours of Sunday. (People should learn to be more precise when they speak. Like how next Tuesday really refers to tomorrow, not Tuesday next week. Okay, irrelevant aside done.) The central feature? A gigantic black moth, with sinister orange eyes. I only remember bits of it, and the earliest bit is the balcony scene. So I'm standing at my balcony, and I see the moth perched outside. I glare at it, and probably mutter a few curses at it too, but it refuses to budge. In fact, its eyes just glow evilly at me. Definitely something wrong with this fellow. Now cut to the highway scene, and I'm in a van, cruising along some stretch of deserted asphalt. My hands are outside the window grilles, I'm ripping the moth to shreds, and someone's beside me lending a hand. Really surreal. Then it cuts to some sort of camping scene. It starts out in some sort of camping ground, and I know, but don't ask me how, that the moth isn't gone yet. So a bunch of friends and myself trap it in a fire, circled by a ring of stones and pebbles, which we proceed to heap onto the moth. So it's crushed, smashed to smithereens, and eventually, utterly consumed by the flames. Miraculously, we all end up eating breakfast, I think, in a drab room. Then I wake up, freaked out and trying to fix the dream in my memory. The more I think about it, the more it begins to read like a B-grade horror movie. All the requisite elements are there! There's a scene to introduce the conflict, a chase sequence, and a triumphant destruction of the evil creature. Just bizarre.

Happy birthday to Thong and Yi-Xun, who will probably not read this anyway. Rui Min's brownie was very nice! Just finished another Hoban book, Her Name Was Lola, which caught Yi-Xun's eye because of its title, as I guessed. Hoban's writing does not lend itself to serious analysis, so far only Cunningham does in my opinion. That's not to say that Hoban's language doesn't have it moments, and it's an easy novel to relax into. The plot just drifts along in its own quirky, slightly neurotic way, which I find mindnumbingly perfect. Am going to read Paulo Coelho after my papers are over. Sounds like the sort of writing that I'd enjoy. By the way, ReGenesis is a cool show! It's like a cross between Touching Evil and CSI. Available on Hallmark at some godforsaken time, if I remember correctly.