There wasn’t really an option for sometimes liking your dreams and sometimes not.
I dream most nights, and the dreams are mostly neutral, but sometimes I have very distressing nightmares. I’d be fine with dreaming if it didn’t include nightmares.
Lately I’ve been having a lot of anxiety dreams. Missing class, forgetting to take care of my aquariums full of fish (this feels weirdly specific but is recurring). The worst dreams are when I dream I’m a teenager again, living with my parents. Lately I’ve been dreaming a lot about reconciling with my mother. The content of the dreams is ostensibly positive - my mother is nurturing and conciliatory – but my brain is screaming NOOOOO that can’t be right!
SUV = Truck-like chassis, at least some semblance of off road capability. E.g. Ford Bronco.
Crossover = Car-like chassis but with some sort of SUVish styling, hence the name “crossover”, since it’s sort of a cross between a car and an SUV. It is basically a station wagon with a taller stance. E.g. Honda CRV, Toyota Highlander, and a whole myriad or others.
Station wagons do still exist in the current market, but somewhat oddly they’ve kind of become a luxury item being kept alive mostly by high-end European makers. Audi, Mercedes, Porsche, Subaru, and Volvo are really the only makers still producing some version of the traditional extended-roof sedan with a D-pillar.
I assumed smaller cars were missing on purpose. I have known some older hatchbacks that were more like a crossover; but I don’t think they’ve made those in a while.
I drive a Honda CRV and I would not select it for this road trip. It is more like a car than a truck or a van. It felt very big to me when I first got it - I wasn’t used to being so high up in the driver’s seat - but really it’s appropriate for a small family and not much more. It doesn’t even have that much cargo space (not much more than my previous car, a Honda Fit.) And there’s is a lot of road noise which makes it difficult to hear conversations between the front and back seat.
I do think it’s the appropriate car for my needs - I really enjoy driving it - but it’s not appropriate for this hypothetical road trip. I selected SUV.
I was a heck of an editor back when I was still in video.
Haven’t done any professional work in DV, but I’ve dabbled as an amateur and the skills transfer pretty much 1-to-1 directly. It’s all still just setting in-points and out-points, only now the computer does it more or less instantly and you don’t have to waste time figuring out the exact frame offset of whichever VTRs you were using, and waiting for the machines to physically copy from tape to tape.
I actually just woke up from a bizarre yet scary nap-nightmare. Dreamt there was some leprosy-infected half-human half-animal creature that was in my home that I couldn’t get rid of, pursuing me. It had only the speed and mental capacity of a toddler at first, so I figured I could thwart him by putting up todder-style barrier gates in the home (it was an enormous multi-story house with many staircases.) And that worked for the first 80% of the dream. But he began getting progressively bigger and faster as the dream went on, and soon those weren’t able to thwart him. By the time I neared waking up from the dream, he was beginning to power his way through the barriers and climb stairs with faster and faster speed, and I was left with no resort but to lock doors and put as many locked doors between him and I as I could. I also had to take a shower in a hurry (to wash off any of his leprosy residue that had gotten on my hair, lest I get infected) and the last moment of the dream was me in the master bedroom with 2 locked doors between him and I, getting ready to shower.
I want an Oscar for best film editing because I want to be realistic. In real life I won’t win awards for the lectures I edit for my job, but I’m told the results are quite good
I have met a lot of celebrities- comes of living in Hollywood for some time, and LA area for all but 20 years.
I have stayed cool, but I do like to tell the stories.
For example- I was the guard at a often robbed store. David Carradine comes in- during Kung Fu heyday. Clerk cant even talk. I help Carradine, he is going to the beach with a babe in a two seater sports car. he buys champagne, etc. He pays, leave comes back in, wants s bundle of firewood (very romantic). He doesnt have enuf cash on him- I cover it for him- he thanks me, and walks out. Now, he knew and we knew he knew who he was- but I played it cool. The clerk was still gibbering.
Be polite, thank them for their work, treat them like anyone else.
I’d sure like to be a millionaire, but I worked at Safeway for 12 years and I’m pretty confident I could do very well at The Price is Right. Plus, I just think it’s the better show.
I’m partly faceblind. If a celebrity, a favorite of mine or not, walked into a store or whatever I was in, I probably wouldn’t recognize them. If I did think I might be recognizing them, I wouldn’t be sure and would think it was more likely somebody else – a lot of people look alike to me who don’t look alike to most people. So I probably would treat them like anybody else, if only because I wouldn’t be able to tell them from anybody else.
