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Woke up while it was still blue outside, chewing over a paragraph I was writing in my sleep. It was a movie review article, at least, and not a piece of philosophy, or, thank God, more reading of books that don't exist.

The movie wasn't real either, and the paragraph wasn't coming out fabulous, but it had a believable premise, to a point. Scarlett O'Hara was sitting on the porch of a restaurant, commenting to some dapper partner on the O.J Simpson case, and a priest walked by and said something vaguely theistic about our collective Innocence or Guilt, which she scoffingly presumed upon to mean that O.J. Simpson was less deserving, perhaps racially, of salvation than most.

In my dreams at least, Scarlett O'Hara is a breezy, myopic liberal, O.J. Simpson went to jail for it, and the Catholic Church always makes a cameo.

In my dreams, I am working.

My dad, over breakfast this morning (peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies), told me that he dreams about work problems a lot, too. He retired years ago, but he still dreams of fixing airplanes, putting things together, and being with the guys.

I probably dream about this stuff four nights a week - many are the times that I've woken up humbled by some dream I had, where a conversation of "what really happened" played out a little farther, always fictional, always real.

Dad went back to bed, but after my coffee I'm on something tentative of a mission t' root up all this black plastic bedding from where the plants used to be out front, and level the whole area. I've got to shake off these crazy dreams.

Expecting a high of about 64 today.

Now that the sun is working like normal down here, I'm even getting up on time.