Norton 3.0
Class is over and I’m back at work. I’ve spent the past three hours working on my floppy disk project. Doing impotant things like preserving Norton Antivirus 3.0 onto thumbdrives so that…important antiques aren’t destroyed? I’m not exactly sure why. The library here works on a save everything we might need it again someday basis. Which isn’t always bad, we have some neat bibles from the 1500s.
I dreamt I was leaving for College last night. This time to a state school out east. To get to the school, which was on an island, I had to sail. I showed up at the pier and got aboard an ancient looking sail boat. Crystal apparently would be steering it. My new roomies, Marisol, a girl, and a blonde headed guy who apparently owned the boat got on board too. The guy’s name was Winston and I never learned the name of the other girl because she was obnoxiously girly and spoiled. When we got out into the ocean Crystal shouted at me to untie various ropes aorund the boat that would unfurl the sails. I untied one too many and a corner of one sail came loose and started whipping aorund everywhere in the wind, but we were already going so fast that Crystal said not to worry about it.
I was sad when we got to school around dusk. I had really enjoyed the boat ride. Winston and I were friends and he said he’d take me sailing whenever I wanted. I got to school and went to a mixer that night. I ran into James and a new girl he was dating. Strangly I didn’t feel weird about it and I wasn’t even mad at him. I talked to his girlfriend for a while and she was really nice.
When it got late, I went to the house my roomies and I were renting. it was a small condo on the beach with four bedrooms and four baths. I spent some time trying to pick a bathroom, which was pointless because prissy girl had staked out hers and Marisol claimed the one I wanted and the third was really dark and creepy, but Winston said he’d take it and I could use the big one in the back. I think maybe it was his family’s house we were renting.
In spite of how well the day had gone for me, and how happy I was with the friends I was making, I found that I wanted to get away from everyone and more than anything I wanted to go sailing again and just be out on the ocean far away from school and everyone else. But Winston, I found out, had left for the weekend. I was immensely unhappy when I learned how long I’d have to wait to get out and then Dad showed up with Kara.
The three of us got in a small fishing boat and rowed to a very near, very small island surrounded by multi colored lillies. We got out at a small cottage and dad said it was where mimi lived and we ought to pick her a bouquet before going in. I got the feeling that Kara and I were much younger than college aged then; Dad was much taller. We picked an elaborate bouqet but I woke up before we entered the house.
