Re: A Conlangy Dream

I don't have conlang dreams much -- but I do find myself on the road in
various parts of the USA, and occasionally Canada or somewhere else.

I've actually been to Rochester though, but just the bus stop ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: A Conlangy Dream


> So i had a very weird dream last night.
> For some reason, i was taking a class at the local community college (a
> few of my friends who go to the same university as me do that because
> certain classes are easier or have better teachers there).  It was an
> English class, and the professor was Sally Caves!  She wrote stuff on the
> blackboard and gave some kind of introduction to the class (it was the
> first day), and wrote out our homework assignment on the blackboard.  It
> seemed to involve reading mostly essays, but one of them was by her and
> she said specifically to pay attention to the "Teoh" references.  And i
> have no idea why my dream was calling Teonaht "Teoh", but i could tell
> which of the words on the blackboard were Teonaht because they were
> surrounded by decorative wedge-shaped diacritics.  So of course i started
> planning how i would go up to her after class and introduce myself, but
> then the dream's scene shifted and i was somewhere walking along the
> southern bank of the Susquehanna river, westwards, and i was thinking
> "this makes no sense... i can't walk to Rochester!" and then i
> 'remembered' that the class was given at some kind of extension of the
> community college campus (which is actually in a different direction),
> near me, and not all the way in Rochester, and then i thought "wow, how
> does Sally do such a long commute?"  so then i kept walking towards where
> the class is, but then the dream ended.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "look, i've got a vampire in the attic.
>   could we make your withholding of information a little more snappy?"
>      ~ riff, from 'sluggy freelance' www.sluggy.com yesterday
>

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