OK, kids, gather 'round. It's time for another story from Lanna's dream time. Once upon a time, there was a girl and her name was Lanna. She had very strange dreams. Well, one night she dreamed that she was going to a high school reunion of sorts. She found her way the gym where it was being held. And there was a gigantic cardboard construction of a firehouse surrounding the gym. "That's strange," she thought. Indeed, it was strange. But she entered anyway through the cardboard door to see who she would be reunited with. The people she saw were extremely unfamiliar to her. There was hardly a face that she recognized. She signed in her name and found out that she would be maintaining the "get to know each other sessions" for the first half of the evening. This meant that she would be assigning 2 people to each other and timing them for 10 minutes so that they could get to know each other. So she did and there was lots of food to eat and balloons and streamers everywhere. After a few hours someone came to relieve her of the position. The very tall lady that took her position said, "Now it's time for you to meet someone! Let's see...Table 5." So Lanna made her way to find table 5. On her way she passed many strange things. She passed a clown making balloon toys, a couple salsa dancing, but the strangest thing of all was a penguin that began to follow her around. She walked more quickly to find the proper table and a young gentleman turned to greet her. It seemed the man was Zach Braff. "Hmm, what's he doing in Anderson?" she thought. They began their conversation introducing themselves to one another. Just as Lanna was in the middle of her name, a bird dropping landed on her shoulder. Zach commented only with, "It’s the penguin, look, now we have matching stains." The two girls at the table next to them noticed Zach from Garden State and began to berate him with questions. He very quickly became agitated and asked Lanna to follow him and they would continue the conversation elsewhere. She followed him into a room. When she entered she looked around and it was completely covered in books. Every inch of the room was covered by shelves filled with books. Even on the ceiling. She felt as though she where in heaven. They began to talk about books and their favorite authors and then their time was up. She went to get punch and started talking to a co-worker who had also been invited to the reunion. They recapped how odd their experiences were, both finding the penguin most strange. And then she woke up. THE END.



I didn't eat anything strange before I went to bed. I didn't watch Garden State or Scrubs. I didn't watch a documentary on penguins. I didn't watch anything or read anything about high school reunions. It all came from the recesses of my mind...But what does it all mean? And why am I so strange?

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 | 11:53 AM | LINK |