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Fragment of a dream
Oct. 18th, 2022 08:30 pmIn wrapping up some kind of interaction at a research institution at which I had perhaps been staff, the administrators were taking the stuff I was to leave but also destroying extra things I had provided that they deemed superfluous. I thought this to be disappointingly wasteful, they could have offered them to me, or I could have spent more cheaply on buying them in the first place.
One of the administrators seemed surprised that I wasn't submitting a thesis. Apparently, for my kind of interaction, one can earn official credit if finishing off with a thesis. I was correspondingly surprised, and suspected that, were I wishing to claim credit, I may have also had to pay handsomely for whatever it is I had done, which had been a rather less official, unpaid collaboration. There also seemed to be some hope that I may someday take some extra course because they greatly desired more very conservative alumni from that course, with what felt like a knowing wink as they imagined that I am such.
As part of this wrapping up, I was then visiting some shared house to pick up some of my stuff that was there. A door closed between the room with my stuff and the exit and it turned out that I was in such a supportive household that a fair bit of shared space gets closed off for maybe a few hours for one housemate's bathroom-related needs. I was annoyed because I had not needed to be there for long, also because the fact that this whatever-it-was has been announced and agreed before I had even arrived felt patronizingly irrelevant.
Making the best of my undue confinement, I explored the room with my stuff for other interesting items. There was a surprise find of various large equipment typically used by lawyers' offices, I'm afraid I don't recall the specific functions of these devices. There were also some DVDs under something, the first I saw happening to be of a horror movie that I had been wanting to see, so that was a silver lining.
One of the administrators seemed surprised that I wasn't submitting a thesis. Apparently, for my kind of interaction, one can earn official credit if finishing off with a thesis. I was correspondingly surprised, and suspected that, were I wishing to claim credit, I may have also had to pay handsomely for whatever it is I had done, which had been a rather less official, unpaid collaboration. There also seemed to be some hope that I may someday take some extra course because they greatly desired more very conservative alumni from that course, with what felt like a knowing wink as they imagined that I am such.
As part of this wrapping up, I was then visiting some shared house to pick up some of my stuff that was there. A door closed between the room with my stuff and the exit and it turned out that I was in such a supportive household that a fair bit of shared space gets closed off for maybe a few hours for one housemate's bathroom-related needs. I was annoyed because I had not needed to be there for long, also because the fact that this whatever-it-was has been announced and agreed before I had even arrived felt patronizingly irrelevant.
Making the best of my undue confinement, I explored the room with my stuff for other interesting items. There was a surprise find of various large equipment typically used by lawyers' offices, I'm afraid I don't recall the specific functions of these devices. There were also some DVDs under something, the first I saw happening to be of a horror movie that I had been wanting to see, so that was a silver lining.
