Like you, I contradict the night

[sovay]

I think yesterday's Hanukkah party went very well. There were conversations between interesting people, two small children being cats, and latkes all over the place; there were not enough chairs, but fortunately there was a living room. eredien arrived with a recipe for vegan latkes. captainbutler gave me a copy of All About Eve (1950), which he had screened for me a few weeks ago. fleurdelis28 found out that Leonard Nimoy is one of the actors in Lights (1983), although not the one who voices Alexander the Great. Other usual and unusual suspects circulated. There may be photographs. (There are still photographs from Thanksgiving and Vancouver.)

Otherwise I am a little fragmented; I have not slept more than two hours a night since—Thursday? I still managed to dream last night that a friend told me they loved me, but they were telling me in a dream because in waking life it was impossible.

Happy birthday, Dave Brubeck! I am watching a documentary about you on TCM and it's terrific.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

In my mind the children are being cats and the cats are being latkes, and then the latkes--the vegan ones--are being children. Surely when Sovay and her family are gathered together, such transformations (and others) are commonplace.

I'm hoping your spell of hardly-any-sleep may one day soon be broken, or at least that you get respite.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the party was good, despite the lack of chairs.

I hope you can find sleep soon. Interesting dream--very true to life, somehow. I'm not remembering dreams but in flashes. A couple of weeks back, I dreamt I was Harry Potter and in a relationship with both Luna and Hermione, but Hogwarts looked like an American middle school from the eighties or early nineties and I'm not sure we weren't all actually animated puppets.

Happy Dave Brubeck's birthday!

[larryhammer]

I thought latkes were required by rabbinic regulation to include some human blood from the grater -- which makes being vegan hard.

Or maybe that was just a grandmother's law ...

---L.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Love you, best cousin.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Only two hours a night?! I don't know how you're managing. I'm glad the friend passed on the love, in that limited time you had for dreaming :) Wishing you good rest and happy celebrations.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I once dreamed that an ex-friend was apologizing to me in a dream because it was impossible in waking life -- I accepted the apology in the dream, and would have accepted it in waking life if that had been possible. Hoom hom.

Lights (1983)

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lights!

Thanks for the reminder :-)
That's a fond holiday memory for me. Those glowy, golden, dancing letters...