2-9-1999 #2

Another vampire dream.
Me and a group of people are in this run down school. There is a father vampire and he has one son who was born to him in mortal times, but there was a rift between them. No matter how the son tried he couldn't make his father happy.
Cris Stevens and Manuel Martinez were in the dream.

2-9-1999 #1

Nina Blanis and I go for a walk around this park, that is far away. But we walk there then we take the bus back.
I go out to Grandma's house with Suzie. We pick up Jeff and go out to lunch. I am driving along I-225. I am going to fast and I can't slow down.
I'm with Heath and we go to Vida's apartment that is in this house. There is a rocking chair on the porch and I crack the leg of it.

2-4-1999

I go over to Europe. I get there and meet up with Heath and Vida in some cafe. Then we part ways. I go to the hotel. I've got this huge bag of killer bud. There's this man who is with my mom, but he keeps cheating, so Suzie shuts the door on him. It catches his big toe, which keeps moving even though it is detached.
I meet my class at this pool, which is right by the border of Peru. It's high in the mountains. Looking down makes it look like you will fall off of the world. When the class takes off, me and this girl get left behind. She knows the way, it's over mountain tops, but they're huge cushy oranges. It scares me but she does it with such ease. She takes us to this door that leads us to home. There is this creature. It's a she. She's delicate and light, and has three toes with suction cup grips on them. She flows over the terrain.
The door leads to a strange reality where I am living with my boyfriend. He is of Irish decent: big, buff, kinda scraggly but kept. Smart and protective. We are living in this housing project, like those in "A Raisin in the Sun" or "Native Son". I do something out the window, or maybe it was down the hall, and the housing police come and arrest me.
I'm kind of behaving childlike, not really aware of the consequences of my actions. My boyfriend comes to help me, he knows one of the guards. He tells them that he will look out for me, and then we go back to our room. He just sits back down and writes something. I go over by the window and play in the sunshine.

2-1-1999

Jessica, Noah, Vida, Paco and I are walking around city park watching the fires burn out. I call Miguel, I ask him if he just forgot or if he doesn't want to hang out with me, and he said yeah.
"You mean you don't want me around?"
"Not if we are"
"Did you get my letter?"
"Yes, and I've been having some strong feelings. I don't like letters. I like to bond once, and then not for a while."

Earlier in the dream Noah had told me that communicating from a far isn't a very good way- it's intimidating.

1-29-1999

We're all camping in the mountains. It's familiar. All of a sudden I see Dave, and he has these tattoos on his arm. He brought me my camping mat. We're talking and he keeps saying that he just wants me to be happy with what I am doing. This makes me angry, angry at him, angry at myself. I become defensive and rude.

June 13, some year a while back

Brian stayed out all nigh and didn't call. I yelled at him and was mad, so I go to a brothel. I'm making out with this guy but I think that it is cheating, so I hook up with this woman instead. She has no vagina, only an asshole.

1-14-1999

I'm walking through City Park with Cris. It's springtime afternoon and everything is in bloom. We're heading to his house, and we walk past this garden. The tress are growing flower boas. I break one off and put it around my neck. All of the flowers in the garden are huge and colorful. Cris picks one for me that is as big as my face, it's so beautiful. There are these mushrooms that are speckled yellow, and I almost touch one, but then I remember that it might be poisonous.
We finally arrive at his house. It's a wooden shack. He lives there with his brother. Inside is bigger than it looks, we are hanging out, coloring. I tell Cris that his hospitality and kindness will be returned twofold. It's getting late, so I leave, but then I return the next day.
We're just chillin', when all of a sudden these kids start to mess with the house and throw rocks at it. So the three of us start fighting back, like the kids of Never Never Land. We finally win and the kids leave. I look at the clock and realize that I have only an hour left to hang out, then I've got to go to the doctor's. I need to take a shower. I ask Cris and he says sure, but to make it quick because the shower doesn't drain. I can see that; there's two inches of dirty water at the bottom of the shower. I tell him I'll make it fast. I'm very nervous about him seeing or smelling my armpits-they're all hairy and stinky.

1-13-1999

I'm living with Heath in a duplex on Elati close to Santa Fe. We have a yard out front that corners the property. Keenan and Tomas live across the street in a similar duplex. One day Heath and I go in on a bunch of hard drugs, so much so that it's making me paranoid.
That evening I look out the window because I'm hearing a bunch of noise. I see this pick up truck full of white men, zipping around the corner. They're yelling and screaming and they drive up onto Keenan and Tomas' yard. They have torches and guns.
I see Keenan at his window, doing dishes. I am banging on my window yelling , but he can't hear me. I call over and Tomas answers the phone. I tell him about the guys in the truck, Tomas goes over to the window, but he doesn't see anything. I get off the phone and call the police. They tell me they will dispatch an officer, but they never arrive. I get off the phone again and go over to the window and the truck is gone. I call it a night.
The afternoon before this I had seen the truck, I was walking home from school, and I go through my gate. Just off the side to the walkway I see a leaf with a nut in it. The leaf is thick and coarse, almost like a taro leaf, or something along those lines. The nut is large and has two antenna looking things stuck out of the top of it. I pick them up and bring them in.
The day after seeing the truck there is this old black man at our house. He's a professor of mine, or maybe a mentor. He sees the leaf and nut and asks where I had found it. I tell him that I found it outside on my lawn. He tells me that he buried those years ago as a child, after his mother had been killed by a group of KKK. The leaf and nut belonged to his mother from when she was little and lived in Hawaii.

1-12-1999 Dream #2

I am driving, I don't know where, I am just going. I end up at Lake Mac. I drive down on of the dirt roads, and then turn around and leave. The dream stays here, like a movie.

There is a house off the side of the road. An older man, early 60s, his wife and their teenage son, the second child, live here. The man is working outside, and the son is downstairs with his friends, playing video games. The teenagers are talking about having a party over the weekend, all they need is an extension cord to run power to the stereo from upstairs. The downstairs room used to be his sister's, but no one has heard from her in years, not since the blowout between her and their father. No one knows what it was about.
Dad comes downstairs: Why haven't you done your chores, you're wasting time with your friends, gotten your homework done? Dad hasn't been happy in a long time. He's always working, but he's somewhere else, wishing for something. All the son's friends leave, the kid goes off and does chores.
Now it's the weekend, and time for the party. All the teenagers come over, and are having fun, and everyone stays the night. The morning comes and they have overslept, Dad found the extension cord, and followed it to the party. He walks in while they are cleaning up. He begins to lecture all the teenagers, and someone starts down the stairs behind him. At first he doesn't notice, but then a stair squeaks and he turns around. There is a woman wearing a leather jacket, with a hat and a red bandana.
"how is it...?"
No Answer. He approaches the woman.
"Honey," he says in an almost forgotten tone. She removes the bandana, and tears well up in his eyes.
"I've missed you so much." He hugs her. She weeps, she's glad to be home. The son feels relief.
Holding her he says, "I was wrong, I love you and will no matter how you decide to live your life."

1-12-1999 Dream #1

I am at a friends house for a Christmas party. Jessica, Jenelle, Vida and some people from work are there, but Heath, Liz, Terry and Mike are not. We are in an apartment; the kitchen and the living room are downstairs, and the bedroom and bathroom are upstairs. After people have arrived I run out to my car to get a box of presents. As I am looking in the box at all the presents, I can't find Vida's. I begin to aggressively churn through the box, until I realize that I had already given it to her. People are just chilling, hanging out and then Andreas Coonas comes over, and it is at this point that I learn that the apartment is Andrew's. I begin loading my car and Andreas says something to me. I teasingly answer him and he just flips the fuck out, asking me: "Are you calling me a dog? You're calling me a dog, aren't you?"
I'm shocked. First I'm calm, then I try being firm with him, reassuring him that I did not call him a dog. We're standing in the doorway. I'm on the first step and he's at the threshold. He's right in my face, and I don't know how to handle it. Finally Andrew pulls Andreas off of me. I leave. I get to my car and can't find my keys, so I go back to the house. Andreas has left, and he has my keys. Andrew comes with me over to Andreas' house. On the way Andrew explains that Andreas has had some bad emotional things happen to him, so sometimes he's a little messed up.

Andreas' place is in Denver, but his back yard is a large barren land with a mill or a factory next door that has been abandoned. Outside the mill there is a large cut wood pile, stacked half way up the wall. We get there, but he will only speak in riddles. It takes us most of the night to get my keys back, and when we finally do, I find that Andreas has taken and hidden my table. I'm tired and frustrated and I don't want to play these games any more. I confront him. I'm angry, aggressive and trying to be intimidating. When I'm done, Andreas just looks at me, and then he starts to cry, telling me everything. Without thinking about it I give him a hug and hold him, rocking him like a child. After a while he calms down and eventually tells me that he hid the table in the wood pile out back, where it blends in. Andreas apologizes for how he had behaved. As I walk outside, the sun is beginning to rise and there is a mist about everything.

1.11.1999

I'm staying at a hotel in Vegas, and go to shower. The bathroom is attached to the neighboring room's bathroom by a half wall. As I get into shower, this very attractive man gets into his shower. We notice each other and we start talking. I begin to use the shower head to masturbate. He gets hard. Now I'm on his side of the wall, but notice his wife in the tub, wearing a very conservative dress. Then there is some guy in my bathroom, so we start to have an orgy. I want to fuck the husband; when I touch his penis it grows quickly, and big, and it turns me on. I can see he wants me, but I sense that his wife doesn't like that, so I pretty much stay with her.
There's a knock on the door. It's Liz, she's finally arrived. I go back to the bathroom and tell everyone five minutes and then we're out. We all stop.
Liz and I go out with a bunch of other people, including Suzie. We all start laughing, and Suzie ask why, and we tell her we all think it's funny how the bathrooms are here. We all go to this clothing store and I am wearing this incredibly short tight black dress. I try on this skirt. My breasts and my butt are showing.
Next I'm riding the buses with a bunch of text books, trying to get to school.

1.4.1999

I'm getting ready to go to Mardi Gras. I go to the bank around the corner from work, where they also sell music. It's full of people even though it's closed. It is snowy and cold out, so I go to my car where Jenelle is waiting. Next thing, I'm in New Orleans. It's morning, I get up and go to the trolley. I'm with someone else and we take it until we get off, but now we are lost. We go up inside this tower, it's old and European, but it has an incredible view of the city.
We stop at this woman's apartment and ask to use the phone. She is having a party and everyone there is really high on themselves, but they still mingle with us. I call Jessica but she's not home. Outside we hear the parades going by, so we go to the window and watch. I am looking at all the kids who're in the parades and am thinking how happy they must be. Soon we leave. Walking around the lobby of the building we run into this guy who had been at the party, and he gave us gold Mardi Gras chocolate coins.

1.2.1999

I'm diving and I just keep going deeper and deeper.

I go to see Miguel. His dad is sleeping on the couch and Miguel is making something. I go to leave and Miguel wants to come with me.

I'm with a class. We are on a trip. It is some military island.

12.27.1998

I go to Golden to meet with Miguel. I get there and there are all these high school girls there. I introduce myself and after Miguel pulls me aside and tells me that one of them is his girlfriend and they've been dating for a while, but he hasn't told her about us yet. I'm not too thrilled about this but go along with it. We all go out to a track of sorts. All the girls come, along with Miguel's girlfriends' mother. Miguel and I are hanging out and he starts to hold my hand. The mom sees this and flips out. I have to talk sense into her, but I've got my retainer in, so it's more difficult to talk, more draining, but I get it done.

12.9.1998

I'm up in Golden, at a creek helping Dave get something. We are going from rock to rock, and we have to be really careful because there are these fish that try to stab us. After we finish we go to his house to smoke a bowl. When we get there I find that instead of Joel being their roommate, it's Cris Stevens; he's attending the School of the Mines. Kevin asks me if I've been driving by doing surveillance on their place, because he keeps seeing a truck like mine. I tell Kevin that I have a new car, and even if I didn't I wouldn't be driving by their house. I have to go and all three men stand up. They tell me that they are having a party tomorrow, and I should come. Kevin and Cris walk me out and check out my new car. They both make comments about my zero stereo system (referring to the manufacturer's stereo). I get in the car and notice one of Dave's cards, so I hand it to Kevin.

12.8.1998

I'm at a mall with a large cafeteria, like the one in middle school. Everyone is in line to get food, and then each goes and sits with their friends. I walk in, feel a bit lost, alone. I get my food and look for a place to sit. I see Julia, Sonya, April and Andreas Coonas. I go and sit by them, but am very reserved. They are all bickering/chitchatting; what they say is childish and malicious. I begin to feel trapped, I want to leave. I get up and start to walk away. They all ask me what I'm doing, where I'm going. I can't answer, I just look at them and then leave.
I go out the door and there in the parking lot is a large crowd. It's a covered lot, so it is cold and I've got a growing feeling of paranoia and fear. There's these cops trying to talk to this guy, but he's wigging out, so they start wrestling. The crowd's cheering it all on and I'm caught right on the front lines. I fight my way out, pushing, running, confused.
Finally I get free and run toward the sunlight. I see ahead of me a huge patch of ice, and I just start to skate and dance on it. All my fear and paranoia have left me and I am happy just dancing on the ice. I finish and head toward the bus stop. I start running, thinking how good it'll be for me. I'm letting the events run through and out of my head. I round the corner full of life.

12.3.1998

I'm at someone's house for a holiday party. There's maybe 10 of us, and the house is near the church on Dexter. When I look outside, the sky is molten lava, but it's not hurting anything, it just is. We leave, and when I get outside it is no longer lava but it is water, with all this marine life, some of which is real and some of which is fake. The marine life is swimming through the air, and one fish swims right up to me. I grab it and try to bring it in to show the others, but the more I pull it in, the easier it is to see the fishing line that it dangles from, and now I see that it's rubbery, not real. So I let go, and it immediately swims away as though there were no rubber, no line.
Now the party's moving, we're driving along 17th Ave parkway. We go to this apartment building, our destination: top floor. While walking to the top floor we look out the window, and it is parallel to the highway. There we see a man passed out on the side of the road. The people I am with go out to him and I go to find a telephone. I ask a group of boys "saben donde esta el telefono?" They give me an apartment number.
The ambulance had arrived. It is night. Most everyone else goes to the hospital, but I stay behind and so does this guy. We know each other well and he has a girlfriend, but next thing we are holding each other, kissing. We both feel bad, and yet we are attracted. This hiding and kissing goes on for a while, until one day his girlfriend call me, invites me over to their place.
They live in a nice apartment building: there is a garden in the middle and a huge sunroof on top. It is very green and warm and humid. I knock on the door, feeling the humidity. The woman's mother answers the door and asks me to come in and have a seat. The place has a very Victorian feel to it. Finally the girlfriend comes out, she looks heart broken: he told her. I feel terrible, I explain how I didn't want any of this, it just happened. I reassured her that it hadn't happened much, or for long, and that we never had sex. I'm just sitting there in the silence.

11.18.1998

I'm with Heath, Grandma, Suzie and another friend. We're overseas hiking on this trail. We are high in the mountain when we come across a pond with a statue. The statue can be moved into different positions, and had something to do with sex. We all start to play with it, moving it into different positions.

11.13.1998

I'm going back to Hawaii. It's the middle of the semester but I've decided to go back. It's a couple of days before I leave and we're getting everything together. I haven't gotten a place together. A part of me doesn't want to go, but I feel like leaving my surroundings. In the car the night before, I'm taking all these IDs of famous people, and all men.
Suzie and I have been traveling around the city saying bye to friends. One house has a huge window, facing out over a mountain and the city, but it was very dimly lit. One other place is this apartment; it is small and crowded and smokey. There are a lot of people playing some card game. It's cold out, but more icy than snowy. I'm in the Jeep, looking out the window but visualizing Hawaii. Somewhere in the trip I run into Felicity. She looks good, but seems more extroverted than usual.

08.14.2002

Variations of the same dream, had on the same night:
Dream One:
I am at this wedding and am staying in the apartment of the bride and groom. It has two levels. There is a girl who lives there also, who kind of looks like me when I was her age. There are spirits in the place. Instead of being afraid of them, the three just live with it. The girl has an eerie connection to the spirits. I want to save her from them, but they don't try to hurt her, and she seems happy.
The bride and groom come up from downstairs and they are carrying wads of bloody towels. I ask if they are hurt. They inform me that it is nothing, and rather nonchalantly tell me that the jaguar is crying blood. I go downstairs and see a tapestry hanging on the wall that features a jaguar on it. Other little things keep happening, but the couple and the girl just go about their business.
It is the night of the wedding, and there is a new ghost who appears, an old black man, and he is hanging out with the little girl. The mother of either the bride or groom can see him, and says things like: "oh, that weirdo is still here." I think how rude she is being because he can hear her, and he isn't even doing anything odd, mean or haunting, he and the little girl are just playing. I'm inside at the party watching the little girl outside playing with the fireflies and spirits.
Dream Two:
Brian and I live in this apartment, and there are spirits there also. Books keep moving, and the paint is peeling off the walls in whole sheets, almost as though the paint were posters.
Dream Three:
Brian and I are living with some other people in a house, and there are spirits there also. Things move. Each time I get more and more anxious, and am looking for a way to remove the spirits.

6.15.2002

I'm trying in vain to pistol whip someone.
Next I'm in a shower with Tom, we are rubbing against each other, he is sucking on my breasts but I won't kiss him or look into his face because I know it's wrong. We are in this hotel and we leave separately, but then later we meet in a large wooden walk in closet. I tell him that we can't do this even though I want to.

7.2.1998

Kevin, Dave's roommate, starts to play on a soccer team, and I am the cheerleader. It is the first day of practice and the team is bickering about who plays what position. I am sitting on the sidelines painting my toenails. Finally I yell at them, that if they won't do it, I will. After practice, after they have all showered everyone meets up at my house.
Dave and Kevin are living at my house because they lost the house in Golden. Dave suddenly begins to talk about the team, and then announces, in front of the team, that he is no longer with me. I stand up and yell at him, telling him that that is not something he needs to announce to everyone. Later I'm saying goodbye to the team as they leave, and they are all thanking me and telling me how much help I was. They also tell me not to worry about Dave, because I am better than that. After everyone is gone I go into the kitchen and find Dave there. We start talking, and it's nice. Dave says how it's hard for him to live here. His pact of having a productive day and not smoking until he gets home is hard when he can't smoke here. I tell him he can, but I know what he means.
The next day is New Years' Eve and it is warm. Dave goes to work and I stay home. Late that night I go out to look for him. I am only wearing a white button down shirt and a white sweatshirt, but no pants. I go to this coffee shop downtown where they are screening an old horror flick. Dave is here, sitting at a table with a bunch of other people, with his books out not really talking to them. I go and sit next to him. I don't say a word, we just exchange glances, but it's nice. After a while we sort of speak with the other people at the table; they are a bunch of kids from Jeffco High. One guy was studying law. Then we go home
The next morning Dave has to go to work at 1p, so I get a ride from Angel down to McCormick's. We're waiting in a parking lot and there is this dog in the back of a truck. Then Tom Rossie and Jason K. come up and are socializing with us for a while. I go inside to check on Dave and when I come back out, Angel has gone, so I start to walk home. While walking down 17th downtown, I walk in front of two retarded girls. One has a metal hook, and she tries to hit me with it, so I take if from her and keep walking, just a little bit faster.
I enter this building. There are many different kinds of rooms, and many different kinds of people and things. There are these women who are trying to sell themselves, and they have fake boobs. There are talking dogs. There are moving rooms. There is this vending machine with only colored buttons. Jim Carey steps out of one of the rooms and gets a drink from one of the buttons. I drink it, then I go outside. All of a sudden City Park begins to be animated, and then there are these roller coasters. I ride them for a while, until the drink wears off.
I continue on my walk home. When I get close to home, I walk into this cave, where my brother is. There on the floor are videos of all that I had just gone through.

6 30 1998

Last night I had two dreams:
I'm rollerblading through the natural history museum, through the dinosaur exhibit. It's night out and I am the only one. The halls are so big and tranquil. As I'm leaving I say goodnight to the security guard.
Next dream:
I go to lunch with Bill. Afterwords we are driving around and we pas by Marcus Gras' house. The backyard has a huge swing set and swimming pool, and there are all these kids hanging out swinging and playing.
"how is it he gets so lucky and has all the money?" I comment. So I decide to come back later and visit. I stop by and Marcus is out on the porch. I've got Kayla in the car. Marcus comes over to greet me and comments on how cute Kayla is. I tell him I'll call him later and I get into the car. It won't start, so I coast it home. At home I call Marcus and ask if we can have a pool party. He says sure, so I call my friends and we all head over there. Half way through Ike comes through, and when he does Marcus goes inside. I talk to Ike and he tells me that Marcus' dad is inside. The Dave shows up and I get ready to go with him. I introduce Dave to Scott McCloud, then we set off in his truck. Dave and I go to my house and get my stuff: some tweezers and astringent. It's a beautiful day out and Dave asks me to rub his back. At first he's wearing his camping pack, but then he takes it off, and sits on the picnic table. While I am giving him a back rub I envision a man with brown hair, laying down with a full erection while I woman stands over him. And both are naked and both are vague pictures. This makes me smile. When I'm done I tell Dave I need to go back to Marcus' to tell everyone the party's over and they need to leave. We go out to Dave's car, nut it's a red mustang. Dave looks at me with a Jack Nicholson devilish grin and gets in the car, but he won't let me in. So I go in the house, fuming, and I recall how Manuel used to do that and how it pissed me off. Then he drove off. I give him two min to get back, then I take off in my car. Next thing I know I'm with Bill & Graeme, we are driving down Colfax, which is under construction. We go to Madison St. and pull into the shopping complex. There's a Baskin Robbins, I go in and ask if Marcus works there. Jill turns around and she's got her kid helping her out. She says that Marcus didn't show up, and I tell her why. His dad came and took him somewhere and he was trying to get here, but it didn't work out. She says that when she met Marcus she knew he knew me, he was a good guy. I tell her that we used to date as freshman. I leave to go use the phones to call Dave, but I can't use any of them. There is some Latin guy there and he has a cell but he tries to use the payphone and it won't work for him either.

June 27, 1998

First, I'm sitting at home, it's my birthday. All of a sudden Terry, Brian, Melanie, Hope and those guys all show up to take me out for pizza and drinks. We go to this place on Colfax and park in the back, right up against the alley. For some reason it takes me awhile to get into the restaurant, and when I do finally arrive, the waitress asks me for my drink order. Jack & Coke I tell her. She asks for my ID. I explain that I didn't have it because I forgot to grab it in the commotion of the surprise. She doesn't get me the drink. When the pizza comes, someone else tries to cut it, but the mess up, so I take over. I notice that the pizza isn't done, so we send it back. I decide to call Dave. I call and this woman picks up and when I ask for Dave she asks me who's calling. I tell her and then wait. Finally he comes to the phone and I tell him where I am, what I'm doing and ask him to come out and meet me. He informs me that he's going to a concert with that woman, Kevin and Thad. I tell him it's my birthday, but he doesn't care. Then he drops the phone and I'm yelling his name with no answer. I hang up and I feel hurt and upset.
Next thing I know I'm at my dad's old apt with Alyssa and I try calling Dave again. Again the same woman answers, I tell her who it is and I can hear her start to hand Dave the phone, but he tells her to say that he's not there, to which she gives him grieve, telling him hat's a blatant lie and he should just be man enough to talk to me. I'm feeling so hurt and angry. I want to tell him that it's over, but I can't muster the guts to do it. I don't remember the conversation but I end up yelling his name into the phone to get his attention, that not working and me hanging up. After that I'm walking home along 17th Ave (running perpendicular to its actual course) and when I get on my block there is this couple behind me arguing. Right before we get to my house, I turn to the couple to ask them their opinion of my situation. Before I can really ask them my question, the woman takes off in her car and then the man starts to get all smart with me for running her off.
Next thing I know I'm in court for the two lovers. The verdict is that they can't separate because of third party intervention (me). Then there was this old book, with all these pictures of underwater animals and there's ancient scripture with wise sayings and I don't remember what they say.

summer 2000

My dream is a movie:
shot opens up on an apt door opening with two adults standing outside, they scream. Same door, two kids standing outside, they scream. POV shot of the door opening to the inside, where a horse is making a funny face. Shot of the apt door once again, this time with a man standing there, unmoved by the horses display. The horse seems disappointed. The man is older with brownish greyish hair. He's kind of plump. The shot follows the man into his apartment where there is a coffee table in the living room, a sofa and an arm chair. There is a knock at the door. The man answers the door and the horse is there wearing fake fangs.
"it's better, but I'm still not scared," the man says. The horse neighs in disappointment. As the horse returns to his apt a little boy steps up from behind him. He is a blond haired boy, dressed nicely. The man invites the boy in. The two go sit in the living room.
"Well, that's a very different look for you," the boy comments.
"I got tired of looking funny, unlike my companion, so I had this made. It works out quiet well, I can go places without all the gawking, and it makes for an easy halloween costume." As the man is saying this, he unscrews his head and places it on the sofa next to him. The boy isn't moved by this at all, and is instead paying attention to a triangle, the percussive instrument, that is sitting on the coffee table. It is not shaped like the instrument traditionally is shaped, but it works the same. There is colored sand laid out on the coffee table, and when the boy strikes the triangle the sand starts to vibrate and move on account of the ringing. The sand moves into a perfectly straight line on the table, with the colors falling in the order of the spectrum.
"By God, you've done it; you've created the perfect note," the boy says in amazement. As he's saying this the man, with his head back on, sits down in the arm chair.
"Thank you Rich. I've been working on it for quiet sometime, with a lot of set backs."
"Well next week at the World's Fair your genius will be recognized," Rich says.
"And what about you, have you anything to speak of?" the man asks.
"No, I've been too busy with all the medical testing, and in my free time I try to do things with Suzy. Last week we went to the county fair, but I couldn't get on half of the rides."
"Have you made progress on the growth formula?"
"Not yet, but there's still hope. Speaking of which, I've got to get down to the center. I'll see you later Rocky, or are you using another name as well?" Rich jokes.
"I much rather like Rockafeller these days, it's kind of dignified. Good luck at the lab," Rockafeller says as he escorts Rich out. Rockafeller walks next door and knocks. The horse answers the door dressed like a clown.
"That's the best one yet," says Rockafeller with a smile.
Scene fades out. New scene opens up inside a high tech lab with a few doctors and nurses. In a lounge area are Rich and his wife Suzy, who is full grown. One of the doctors comes up and Rich leaves with him. They go into a huge elevator that not only has a giant electronic control panel but also a full lab counter. Rich goes up and pushes the button for the 14th floor. Instead of the elevator smoothly descending, it goes haywire and drops rapidly. Rich is hitting all the buttons, but nothing is working, until the nurse hits the big red override button and the elevator comes to rest...on the 14th floor. They all get out, a bit shaken, but no worse the wear. Rich and the doctor are walking down the hall, when a maintenance man approaches with a computer read out: Computer overload due to the genius' creative energy.
"Well, it looks like you overloaded the computer. Is there a problem you're working on right now Rich?" the doctor asks. Rich seems downtrodden.
"I just don't know what else there is," Rich replies. The shot follows the two as they walk down the hall looking over various charts. Then the shot goes to the outside of the building, where we see the Richy Rich logo in large letters on the top, and the street in front of the building is under construction. Shot goes back to Rich, who is with Suzie and others in a more passenger elevator. The automated voice of the elevator calls out each floor as they stop. Each floor is named after Rich (this is Rich8 exit), but when they get to the first floor (which Rich doesn't ever use) the elevator informs them that this is the Suzy exit.
"Hey, that's my name!" Suzy says excitedly. Rich is perplexed, slightly annoyed that not all the exits were named after himself, but he says nothing and smiles. He doesn't want to spoil Suzy's enjoyment. Suzy and Rich are out on the street and catch a public bus. It's very crowded and they are sitting in seats across the aisle from each other. Amid the peaceful din of the bus, Suzy turns to Rich and tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Rich doesn't know how he feels.
"So you won't be bathing alone anymore?" he asks.

sometime in summer 2000

The seniors graduate and I am a junior. I'm all psyched out about it because now I'm the senior. I see Julie Janke and her and she tells me about this party later. I go home to my own apt. and wait but no one calls me as I decide to go downtown and see who's out there. I go to this one bar and when I walk in I see Betsy, Jason, Judd and some others. It's very crowded and noisy. Jason comes up to me and asks for some money for some more drinks. I give him some despite the fact that he's already very drunk. I go into the bar further and then go upstairs where Bill is. I sit with him and we have a few drinks, then we decide to leave. I'm driving and as we leave downtown we go down this road with houses on the side, a park on the other side and kids playing around. I'm very careful to watch for the kids and they are all laughing and waving to me. We're all smiling. Then as I turn we notice this other car full of young drunk people and they plow right through all the kids and then squeal off. Bill and I are shocked by their behavior but even more astounded by the fact that no one is doing anything. Now it's later at night and I'm over at Bec and Lori's. Bebi, her mom, Atim and company are there. Bebi's mom is also bedridden, and they are there giving Bec and Lori her bicycle. It's night out, Bec and I are on the front porch with the bike on the lawn. Then this guy comes up with a little eye mask on and takes the bike right in front of us. Bec and I just sit there and stare at him; we can't believe he took it right in front of us. Lori comes out and starts to yell at us to get the bike back. We go over to the guy's house, he's the neighbor across the street. Bec's at the front door and I go around the side and look in the window. There's a couple of people watching TV inside. I go stand next to Bec and she knocks. The neighbor answers, tells us to leave and then tells us the he likes to rape little girls for fun. Bec and I are both intimidated and leave, we go back over to her house and go inside. The light is a red candlelight. I want to leave but am afraid of the neighbor, so Bec and Lori let me stay the night. I'm laying on the floor and I fall asleep.