Dream Journal
May 21, 1997
Context: My family is visiting Oberlin for graduation.
It’s graduation and everyone’s parents are here. I’m spraying people with a super soaker. Tony T’s dad gets the super soaker and gets wildly excited. He hoses down his wife, Tony, Jess, Dan, and me and we all patiently wait for him to stop. Then Dan and I leave and I say “Wouldn’t it be funny if we had a pie to throw at him?” Lo and behold: Around the corner in the main room is an apple pie! Dan starts scooping some into his hand and I say “No! That’s someone’s mail!” He keeps it up and I take the tags so I can report him. He chases me down to get them but I manage to keep one. Then I see four girls crying in the mailroom looking for pie and drag Dan in to apologize. The girls are surprised and astonished by it all. Maybe I was just projecting?
Creations: The pie appeared because of my suggestion, of course. But when Dan started digging into it, I imagined that the pie was a special delivery for someone. This led to the crying girls appearing in the next scene. All together, kind of a dirty trick, though I don’t think that was my intention going in.