Breaking the signal so it's totally unreadable

[sovay]

My poem "The Conversation" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It is about communication problems, among other things. I think one of the others is politics.

I would love this Wondermark even if I didn't also call my own cats "baby cat."

I haven't read any of the relevant comics or even seen Suicide Squad (2016), but last night I dreamed about Harley Quinn and some ambiguous fictional antihero (spent some time as a black dog, was neither a hellhound nor Sirius Black) trying to break into a university with a serious haunting problem. Two nights ago I had weird-ass dreams about tentacle pregnancy. Your guess is as good as mine.

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[yhlee]

I still get anxiety dreams of the form "I have been signed up for French all semester but have not gone to any classes and the final is tomorrow" (in real life, I aced French) / "My topology homework is due tomorrow and I haven't started it" (I turned everything in on time and got an A in that class) / "It's the first day of classes and I can't find my schedule."

...it's like my subconscious thinks I'm still in college. If only!

[sovay]

...it's like my subconscious thinks I'm still in college. If only!

I have nightmares about teaching classes. Somehow that feels especially unfair.

[yhlee]

Yikes! No kidding.

Despite the fact that I had some traumatic teaching experiences, my anxiety nightmares usually stick to casting me as a student--I think because I associate it with powerlessness.

[davidgillon]

Used to get a doozy while I was at uni that I should be doing another course but no one had told me. Still get an exam anxiety dream at least once a year, and it's 31 years since I graduated!

[yhlee]

Yeah, no kidding. I often get these weird melange dreams that are set in a mixture of my high school and my college. *shudder* I would trade them all to get nice, straightforward nightmares about getting shot in the hand with a blue laser (dream from 4th grade) or being stalked through the city by hostile mecha (a few years ago). I hate school anxiety dreams!

[davidgillon]

Absolutely! I've had a handful that are worse, but the anxiety ones are the ones that Keep On Coming Back!

[yhlee]

Yes, that's it exactly! If they were only once in a while that would be one thing, but anxiety dreams in school clothing? They just never go away. They're just so uncreative.

[davidgillon]

I managed to have an anxiety dream that got creative last night. Not only did I have to do an advanced maths exam without having revised, but I think there were actual questions. And then I had to apologise to Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs of NCIS that I'd forgotten to revise because I was wrapped up in the case we were on. "Sorry, Boss"

Anxiety dreams complete with Gibbsslap?!

ISTR the 'case' was a missing person on a ski-ing trek(?!), but they'd gone missing because they were disoriented as someone had been pumping carbon monoxide into the lodge where they were staying, which was still slightly less imaginative than the dream that preceded the exam. That one featured hunting demons who could take on the form of family members. "The art is to only wing them with the first shot from the shotgun, just in case it really is your cousin"