Feeling particularly non talkative the last few days, though I canít sleep at night from all the thoughts spinning in my brain. I've had a raging sinus infection that's alternately making me hot and giving me chills. Right now I'm freezing for no reason though I've been sweating all night up till about an hour ago. So I'll grace you with the weird dream I had this morning, if for no other reason than to expel it from my brain...

It was a really long, drawn out dream that my husband had to wake me from, I didnít think it was ever going to end. I used to work for a large department store chain here in Houston and the last position I had was in one of the buying offices. When I started I had a huge work area with a big desk and didnít really have to share close quarters with anyone. A year or so after I started there, they decided to move all of the buying areas to one floor and we all got nice small little cubicles where we had to share a central desk island. Luckily our department was big enough to be given two cubicles and most of the time I had one side to myself still. But being claustrophobic when I did have to share it was hard to get anything done. Especially when my cubicle mate wanted to make small talk when I was typing million dollar spreadsheets... I can't type and carry on a conversation, my brain doesn't work that way.

So in the dream, all of our offices had been moved again, as a matter of fact most of the store had been moved to a new building and all of the offices were in disarray. The building had tons of existing furniture, most of it old, like they had taken over an old apartment building. So some of the offices had bathrooms in the same space as desks, bath tubs and toilets. I started the dream with being given a good sized desk and work area, with old vintage furniture, but each time I would get back to my future office area something had changed. First I lost my chair, it had been replaced by a couch, then another desk had been jammed in right behind mine to where it was really cramped and awkward...

I spent most of the dream wandering lost in the new building, once I even went down to the big lobby area, and seeing a line of people dressed as vampires waiting outside the plate glass window, I went outside to see what they were doing. They turned out to be waiting for a play to start. But then I realized I couldnít get back in the building the same way I came out, and ended up wandering in to the selling area of the store and trying to figure out how to get back into the offices upstairs. I asked one well dressed woman to help me and she directed me to a huge, fast moving sidewalk (like an escalator with no steps) that I had to jump onto and it took me up to the next level and spit me out. I have a secret terror of escalators because my mother was afraid of elevators and when I was a child weíd go visit my dad, in the same store on the tenth floor and we had to take escalators the entire way up. The escalators at the store always moved a little faster than standard escalators, and they still do. I saw some offices and went into them, only to realize I was lost in a maze and stumbling into peopleís private offices. I ended startling an executive secretary finally and pleading with her to help me find my way back to the buying offices. When I finally managed to find my way back, my office had changed again for the worse, but I couldnít find anyone other than disoriented co-workers to complain to. I kept wandering in circles, though rooms that looked like abandoned furniture showrooms, except for the occasional strange plumbing fixture until my husband came in and woke me up.