Odd dreams. First, my mom and I were driving around during a huge rainstorm. There was a huge probability that the car would get struck by lightning, so I was trying to remember everything they told you in school regarding this situation. I considered putting a blanket on top of the car, but then I remembered that it was an electric blanket, and it would probably increase our likeliness of being hit. During the storm, the winds were so powerful that cars kept being pulled back into this huge cloudmass. My mom and I drove away as fast as possible. She controlled the pedals and I controlled the wheel from the passenger seat, and she berated me for driving too fast. Silly girl.

Then, I was at Chili’s, rereading “The Fifth Elephant”, which was illustrated like “The Last Hero”. Sannali‘s fabulous birthday card was among all the lovely Kidby illustrations. I was shocked, because it mentioned in the text that Carrot was 18 at that point, while I had previously thought that the City Watch books were roughly a year apart, timeline-wise.

In the next dream, I was at this math competition. Previously, I had been in the same contest, and I had won. Of course, all my competitors were at least two years below me. This time, all my rivals were from my grade in school. To make matters worse, they randomly decided that I shouldn’t be allowed use of a calculator. Then I saw two girls cheating and tried to bring them to the proctor’s attention, but the proctor became irritated with me and told me to be quiet. I think this dream pretty much mimics the Harry Potter Trivia Competition from a few weeks ago. I advanced from the low ranks, and finally I was set against equals. Then they told me I couldn’t use my knowledge of the British editions, and they ignored my protests when I claimed that their answer sheet was wrong, threatening to kick me out of the event.