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What went well today:

• Had a tasty breakfast at the CG even though it was a holiday. The place was relatively not busy when I got there.
• Slept a lot today. Slept in this morning and went back to sleep after I did get up. Slept again in the afternoon.
• Watched a Kurosawa film Rhapsody in August. Not one of his best films. There were certain shots that were like his signature, but the storyline was muddled and very narration-heavy. Richard Gere was in the film in an almost cameo role. He was virtually the only Caucasian in the film. Much of the story revolved around the bombing of Nagasaki and how that impacts people today.
• Dreamed last night that I was in a house (one I have been in before in my dreams). I was with two men and a woman. One of the men was the woman's spouse. We were sitting around talking and drinking some. It got late and we decided that the other guy and myself would just crash there and head off to work in the morning. During the night, there was some disturbance outside the place. There was someone on a motorcycle and several instances of people talking loud and throwing things. I started to get up but didn't do so. For some reason, the woman was in bed next to me. Her leg was draped over my leg, effectively pinning me down. After a while, the noisemakers dispersed and I fell back to sleep.
• In a second dream sequence, I was working with a team of people on a software project. I was new to the project and had not learned all of the protocols and processes people used to create a build of the product. I was being mentored by someone who had been there a while. His suggestions were helpful, but I was quite green and was having trouble keeping up with everyone. I had a review with my manager and she walked me through what I needed to have done in order to keep the team on schedule. I agreed with her comments and promised I'd have things ready on time. We made the deadline and people were celebrating. I stood back from things. I felt like I was not fully integrated with the team--that I was an outsider and might never fit in with everyone. The dream was very detailed and some of my tasks involved attaching animated icons to objects on the game board that appeared on the screen. I was doing something that was tricky to do well, but that could be done by anyone with the right skill set.

Had a fairly strong episode of redness/flushing in the afternoon. It happened a few hours after I ate at the CG. I had an omelette. The eggs may have triggered the intense response. Who knows?