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Anxiety Dreaming and Community Meeting
Apr. 18th, 2006 06:21 amOur community meeting is today. EEEEEK
Last night I dreamt that I was at Disney Land (or someplace similar that wasn't quite Disney Land), and I went on a roller coaster and lost the book that I'd won at a previous booth. I decided to keep going with what I was doing, because it would either turn up at lost and found, or it wouldn't, and it wouldn't matter if I went there right away, or spent a lot of time looking. So I went on with the having fun.
At some point I went back to my hotel to sleep. But I woke up at 10:54 and suddenly realized that the community meeting was the next evening, and I was very far away. I had 4 messages on my answering machine from my mother, who was trying to reach me because people kept calling her to find out why I wasn't home.
So. In order to get home I was going to have to drive 6 hours, and then take a plane, which meant waiting until light, and then the flight would take time, and if I left /right/ then, I would get home just in time for the beginning of the meeting, if everyone showed up without my reminding them.
Then, as I was quickly stuffing belongings into bags to stuff into the car so I could get going, someone delivered a bunch of papers and bunny-shaped chocolate lolipops. At first I thought the papers were referring to the Standardized Testing, but I figured out that they were actually about the End of Level Assessments. Each of the bunnies said "Level 4" (or 5 or 6) across the forehead, and "Math" (or Reading or Writing etc) across the neckline where a bow would be. The papers were strange. They all had the same black line drawings (almost Escheresque tesselations), but the bits had different amounts of the various colors. Turned out the colors represented the various standard areas, and the amounts of color, the number of levels passed. It was actually quite nice.
Somehow, several of my students were in the hotel room, grabbing at their papers and bunny-pops. I had to stand on the bed and tell them to go wait in the classroom. (I'm not sure how they were going to get there, since I still had to drive and fly... but, ya know, dream.) And then - I woke up.
So, now I'm awake and in just over 12 hours my class has to put on a community meeting and I have this great fear that none of my students are going to show up for the event itself.
Deep breath. Today I'm keeping them from 10:00 through the end of school. We're going to rehearse. We're going to set up. We're going to add more pages to the Power Point. We're going to make snacks. We're going to make photocopies. And... we're going to put on a community meeting. Aie.
Last night I dreamt that I was at Disney Land (or someplace similar that wasn't quite Disney Land), and I went on a roller coaster and lost the book that I'd won at a previous booth. I decided to keep going with what I was doing, because it would either turn up at lost and found, or it wouldn't, and it wouldn't matter if I went there right away, or spent a lot of time looking. So I went on with the having fun.
At some point I went back to my hotel to sleep. But I woke up at 10:54 and suddenly realized that the community meeting was the next evening, and I was very far away. I had 4 messages on my answering machine from my mother, who was trying to reach me because people kept calling her to find out why I wasn't home.
So. In order to get home I was going to have to drive 6 hours, and then take a plane, which meant waiting until light, and then the flight would take time, and if I left /right/ then, I would get home just in time for the beginning of the meeting, if everyone showed up without my reminding them.
Then, as I was quickly stuffing belongings into bags to stuff into the car so I could get going, someone delivered a bunch of papers and bunny-shaped chocolate lolipops. At first I thought the papers were referring to the Standardized Testing, but I figured out that they were actually about the End of Level Assessments. Each of the bunnies said "Level 4" (or 5 or 6) across the forehead, and "Math" (or Reading or Writing etc) across the neckline where a bow would be. The papers were strange. They all had the same black line drawings (almost Escheresque tesselations), but the bits had different amounts of the various colors. Turned out the colors represented the various standard areas, and the amounts of color, the number of levels passed. It was actually quite nice.
Somehow, several of my students were in the hotel room, grabbing at their papers and bunny-pops. I had to stand on the bed and tell them to go wait in the classroom. (I'm not sure how they were going to get there, since I still had to drive and fly... but, ya know, dream.) And then - I woke up.
So, now I'm awake and in just over 12 hours my class has to put on a community meeting and I have this great fear that none of my students are going to show up for the event itself.
Deep breath. Today I'm keeping them from 10:00 through the end of school. We're going to rehearse. We're going to set up. We're going to add more pages to the Power Point. We're going to make snacks. We're going to make photocopies. And... we're going to put on a community meeting. Aie.
