I had a dream last night that was bathed in a dim yellowy light and many of you were in it. I think there were storms outside.

There was a couch. The couch was extremely long. It should not have fit in the room. Many of you sat on it, but I’m not sure how many. I couldn’t see to the end of it though I could see the wall which should have been the boundary.

The wallpaper was ornate: laurels surrounding a Victorian streetlamp, repeated vertically, bounded by unbroken vertical lines on each side. This was a house in a flat neighborhood.

I was on the couch. There was a TV. The screen just looked yellow. Kari was next to me watching TV. Nate was on the other side of Kari also watching TV. I could hear Andy talking about theory concerns I didn't have the vocabulary to understand. Others were beyond Nate probably also watching TV. I could see countless feet resting on a coffee table.

I looked out of a window. The outside was ominous, bulging, flowing rancid butter. I noticed I could see through the walls so I stopped looking out of the window.

Rob and Chloe went through a swinging door laughing and punching one another in the stomachs playfully. The door didn’t quit swinging which caused me unease.

Some anonymous girl that reminded me of Marlene Dietrich if she had grown up with a big pickle jar on her head (the top of her head was very flat, the rest of it fairly cylindrical) came into view and looked as though she might laugh in my face but she tripped and fell and left the dream.

I wanted to leave the house. Everyone else wanted to stay. I would have to walk alone. I knew there were cameras outside—on the peaks of houses, on barely audible helicopters moving through the skies.

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[No need to put me on a chaise lounge and tap a pen on your knuckles though. The dream's meaning is apparent. The dream means we need to solidfy a day for a our kick off gathering.]

--A week from today? (Friday August 28)
--Two weeks from today? (Friday September 4, a full moon, by the way).
--Or some other day that doesn't start with F?]