Last night’s anxiety dream must have been influenced by my inability to get prompt and dependable electric service at the MAS convention.  I dreamt that I went to the room where the poetry reading is going to be and there was already a crowd of people waiting outside (which was definitely good, although at first I wondered if most of them weren’t there for the program next door, but when I opened the doors they all went into my room).  It was like 9:30 at that point (although the reading is actually scheduled for 2:00 today, in the dream it was 10:00 and I was running late).  There was like a smaller enclosure before the door to the room, kind of like a porch; it reminded me of the enclosed porch of an apartment I lived in in NJ a long time ago.  I went to turn the lights on and there was no electric.  So then ensued panic between me and my husband, him asking me what went wrong and me saying don’t blame it on me.  He went down to security or wherever and he came back saying they told him he should have filled out an order form for the electric service.  After more back and forth and arguing I remembered that I did have a copy of the electric service form signed by the college (where the reading is being held), so I sent him back with that.  In the meantime I got the door to the room itself open and flipped a switch and lo and behold the electric service was on in the room itself.  Then it gets fuzzy, but I think I was trying to reach my husband on the phone but couldn’t.  Then I woke up.  The good thing was that there was a good crowd of people.  The bad thing was that I was running late and I looked like an idiot.

The event is being held at the University of Houston-Clear Lake campus, so presumably they have electric 24/7.  :) And hopefully my husband and I won’t argue.  :)  

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