Chad's Dreams
| September 23, 2008, 8:29 AM The Greenville College Re-enrollment |
| I was for some reason stuck having to do another semester at Greenville College. I was all set to move into a dorm that happened to be located in a park right next to a small pavilion. I had with me two or three Wal-Mart bags full of clothes and a couple of wooden dressers - as well as a few assorted random toys. I somehow ended up stuck sharing a room with two girls. That was okay with me, because at least they were familiar faces from back when I was at GC before.
I sorted some of my stuff out in the hallway, and went into the dorm to try and settle furniture arrangements. One of them was painting the other's toenail, and she asked me for help. I got down in there, ready to take over, when she kissed me right on the lips. It was disgusting, and felt like a layer of semi-dried cheese sauce had slimed me. She informed me that she put one layer of lipstick on each day without washing it off to make one really thick layer that looked totally normal just to do this prank. After that, someone who wasn't an RC came in, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. He must have been a henchman for the RC. He saw my roommates and decided it was all wrong, so he pulled out his cell phone to call the RC. After a few minutes (I could overhear the other side of the conversation), I was hearing that I had to go on some sort of trip (in the woods?) to prove my worthiness and that I could handle it. When I tried to object, the guy started singing what must have been a theme song for Greenville College, because moments later the entire campus around me was singing it. There had to have been an auditorium full of people right next door singing it to signify the start of some maniacal event, because it was so loud. I was yelling my objections to him, but he didn't stop singing and nobody heard me. I just started screaming in the phone and got no response at all. The next thing I know, the red-shirted lackey dragged me to some convenience store. I remembered when I got in that Greenville College had done some sort of marketing promotion, such that the blue energy drinks in the cooler would talk to you and mentor you. I tried to open the cooler door and ask it what to do, and I didn't get time to hear much of a response, when I got dragged away. The RC wannabe pulled me over to this table full of people I don't know, saying "Come over here and sit with your friends." I saw my new roommates sitting at another table eating, and I just punched the red-shirted guy right in the nose and said, "those aren't my friends" with the intention of running over and sitting with my roommates. -- I believe this is where I woke up to the phone ringing in real life, to find out that I had overslept and was 2 minutes late for work. |
Interpretation/Comment by Rachel Garrett on September 23, 2008, 2:00 PM Cool Blue Mentors I do believe the part about the blue energy drinks is because you subconsciously feel that you can't function well in everyday life without your energy drinks. Oh...it's also HILARIOUS. |
Interpretation/Comment by Jaron Davis on September 23, 2008, 2:26 PM Holy Cow Whew! This one might warrant discussion as there seems to be a lot to it. Do any of the objects remind you of something, or do they seem to signify anything (GC, the park, the belongings, the girls, the lipstick, the color red, the woods, the singing, the screaming, the energy drinks, the marketing, the "fake" friends, the "actual" friends)? Every detail helps :) Alright, I'll give this a shot for fun. I believe at the first you were in a situation where you were doing "more of the same"; but you were well-prepared (the belongings being just what you needed), and things were peaceful (the park). Something happened that you didn't expect, but you were okay with at first (the girls), but then the situation became an embarrassment (the weird kiss) and a complication (the fact that the kiss was complicated enough to be built up over time). Then the antagonist arrives. I think he is a representation of something unfair, being as he doesn't deserve the power that he has. Anyways he was trying to decide your fate and the whole world (or all of GC?) was with him (the harmony of music), but you were ultimately frustrated with him. Anyways, you'll like this next bit. The cooler/mentor of energy drinks represents, perhaps, someone who you trust and depend on (energy drinks) who tends to live in his/her own box. You don't get enough time/chances to ask this person the questions you'd like to ask. And finally, once again, red-shirt-guy is trying to decide your fate, and who you hang out with; but your frustrated with who he's telling you to hang out with so you choose to hang out with your "real" friends. Is this a sign that you need to move back to St. Louis? Lol, anyways, what are your thoughts on my thoughts? |