Last night I dreamed I was back in school.  It was a long detailed dream, with me attending some sort of engineering lecture where I was sitting in the very back of a large auditorium next to another SI (School of Information) student.  We were discussing why we had registered for this class, it was so far outside of our degree requirements.  Yet we were not contemplating dropping it.  I thought it was sort of interesting, though I had concerns about understanding enough to pass it.  Then the dream shifted and I was in a very long dorm room, on the top bunk.  Also in the dorm room were two friends from SI, S the fiddler, and Sh the librarian who now works in Atlanta.  Sort of reminded me of our internship week in NYC.  But besides the three of us there were 12 other females in assorted bunk beds down the long room.  And only one bathroom!  It was quite noisy, most of the other women were undergraduates, and I felt really old.  I wondered how we’d all get into the bathroom in the morning.  I was discussing with S the fiddler that it might be better to rent a studio apartment with a couple of twin beds than to stay in this dorm room for two semesters.   I didn’t know how I was going to get any work done living with 14 other people in one room.

I woke when Katie the dog walked across my legs and then settled herself on my chest to affirm it was morning.  What a relief!  I have to say that I was much more unsure of why I was in school in my dream than I was while I was actually in school.  It all seemed loud and confusing and unsettling in the dream, while in actuality it was interesting and illuminating and exciting in real life.  I think that I’m dreaming about still being in school because I am meeting a school friend, C, tonight for dinner and to say goodbye as she is moving to Seattle for a new job, and I have plans to meet another school friend, B, soon for lunch in Ann Arbor, and I’m wondering how Sh’s new job in Atlanta is going, and whether E has found work in Boston yet, and I’ve just been chatting online with J as she reigns in a couple of job offers from California.  Such a group we were, now being flung to all corners of the country.  Seems pretty neat.  I think we’ll all remain friends even though we are spread from coast to coast.  You see the best and worst in people when you’re working together in the intensity of grad school.  These people are pretty much the best, and the institutions and corporations that add them into their employee pool are very wise.