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I believe that last night's dream (one of them) had something to do with a classroom. Details are gone now--I awoke in bursts this morning and dream content got overlaid by waking thoughts.

Read last night until nearly midnight and then had some difficulty falling asleep. Was still running energy from the Qigong class--either that or I was being kept awake from the chicken sandwich I inhaled after class along with part of a Magic Bar. I was really hungry coming out of Qigong despite the late hour.

I finished the Means' book, Assorted Fire Events. The final stories were concise, shorter pieces that were very good reading. It was just the first few stories in the collection that didn't work well for me and almost caused me to dump the rest. Some of his writing reminded me of David Morrell's Nightscape story collection. (I just saw that Morrell has written over 75 books. Will have to see what else is in the library. Morrell's work is darker than Means', but comparably written.)

So much for my book review/reporting. There has been that cluster of writers though that I've read now--haselett, williams (conrad), means (david) and morrell (also david). Plus munro, oates, doctorow, and others. I almost picked up a Koontz novel at the library today. There were at least three sitting in the new books section. But, I noted that I had enough on my reading plate right now without adding one of his eyeball burners to the mix.

Quiet, warm day. I started the Eco book, Baudolino (I think I referred to this book as Bordolino, previously). Anyway, it's not surprising that the book is dense and filled with dictionary-bursting words and voluminous historical allusions (see what it's doing to me already). It's certainly more lighthearted than his earlier books, or perhaps he's just made the humor more obvious (for the historico-literary impaired like me).

Dance class tonight. Will be good to move about some after sitting and reading/writing today. Will meet L afterwards for ice cream at the BR parlor (do we still refer to these places as parlors?). Maybe the combination of events will elicit some dancing ice cream parlor dreams. Anything is possible, especially with multiple universes.