[Dream] File Under: If I Only Had the Skills to Draw This...

Woke up from an odd dream this morning with my first thought being "this should TOTALLY be a manga."

It involved a girls' dormitory at a Christian college, centering around one girl who's like a mentor for younger girls at the dorm. She lives in a dorm that's seven stories high, and each floor somehow represents (in theory and in real life, as most silly mangas do) a level of hell and/or heaven. The lead lives on floor 7, Heaven, which is cool except that inexplicably there's a mom & pop store (in New England-speak, this store would be a 'packie', as yes, it did have beer and other liquor) at the end of one of the hallways. The packie being there through the maxim "Heaven is what you make it" (the overall theme of the story), and apparently having a packie close at hand was some student's idea of ideal heaven. :p

I can only wonder what kind of shojo manga silliness would unfold in this setting...

[Note to self: this could easily play out as a YA novel and/or series...still, I totally see it as a manga...]

[Weekend] All sorts of things going on

Saturday:

Did our food shopping at the La Playa Safeway midmorning so we'd be good to go for the afternoon. Headed into town about noon so we could have our lunch at Max's (yum!), stop at the library, and then head to A Prairie Home Companion. Have to say that after listening to that show for so long, it was quite interesting to see it played out in person like that. It's definitely like watching those old films of Bob Hope, et al, do their live radio broadcasts back in the day. GK didn't read the greeting I sent to my dad, but it's on the website, so I'm happy with that. Got more writing done.

Sunday:
Dropped off four boxes' worth of stuff for Goodwill up on Clement...had to double-park due to the fact that parking is a joke there. Good thing I filled out the receipt online before I dropped it off! Also vacuumed the apartment, started laundry and rearranged stuff in Spare Oom so I can move around again as well as use the loveseat. This definitely makes it a lot easier to dig through the stuff I need to either throw or file away! May stop at the store around the corner to pick up some last minute things [note to others: never ask me if we're low on something, chances are my assumptions are dead wrong and we either end up with extras or run out too quickly. ;) ] Also...awaiting the moment when our neighbor's dog explodes. This little guy is smaller than a football, but he growls and barks his little head off every time we come even remotely close to our neighbor's door. He's quite harmless, all bark and no bite (literally), but the thing gets SO wound up. I'm just waiting for the YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP Y-*BOOOM*.

Still to do:
--Continue writing the final chapter
--Go through more stuff in Spare Oom, start making piles of stuff to be shredded/filed/thrown away
--Finish laundry DONE
--Avoid thinking about how badly the Pats just played
--Hang up some of our framed pictures DONE
--Clean the bathroom DONE

EDIT: I'm just a cleanin', errand-finishin' fool today, ain't I? :D