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[tealin]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADOO!

Yesterday's Sketchbook - illustrations from a dream I had the night before, which, unlike most of my dreams, was actually pretty cool, or at least interesting.

This morning on my way to the bus stop I saw a fascinating thing. It had been raining, and there was a bit of water running in the gutters, but in the gutters were also worms – live worms, not dead drowned ones like you get in puddles after it rains. I think they were alive because their top half was out of the water, it was that shallow, and they could still breathe. The oddest thing was, they were completely unharassed by the horde of robins in the neighbourhood, which I could hear singing all around. I know robins are famously stupid but you'd think they'd have taken advantage of this boon. I have two theories, both equally weak:
1. The 'early birds' had filled up already and weren't interested in what was left in the gutter, leaving those worms to go on their merry way unharmed
2. The worms were about the same size, shape, and colour as the twigs already lying in the gutter, and the motion of the runing water distracted the birds from the motion of the crawling worms. If so: clever worms!

I'm sure everyone will find that as riveting as I did.

CONGRATULATIONS tulanoodle!

Comments

Thanks!

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

It's been a great day so far, and it seems to be getting even better.

A²

[okiwan.livejournal.com]

Tealin?!?! Hello?!?! You must recount the dream! Oh, how you tease.

You know, I wish I could draw as well as you so that I could illustrate my dreams. Or that somebody would invent a brain-VCR so I could record them. I have some very strange ones.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I used to have incredibly strange ones, but they've gotten frustratingly mundane in the last few years. I wonder if I'm using up so many creative juices with work that there's none left over for sleep.

If they invented a brain-VCR, I'd like to plug it into my brain when I'm reading so storyboarding wouldn't be so much like pulling teeth, and I could make movies I liked out of all my favourite books. I used to fantasize about that in middle school...

[okiwan.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, me too! Except I wanted it to record the pictures in my head from whenever I listen to music. I could've made some killer videos!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Your icon - with the winking: is that You?

[okiwan.livejournal.com]

Yes! Please see my latest entry.

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

Just found this; thought you might like to know.



Impressive.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Actually, I had peeked at that earlier ... but thanks for posting it. :)

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I have weird, weird dreams. The weirdest ones (or sometimes just the most bizarre details) are the ones I remember.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

-Hooray for the Worms! I am one of only two people I know that goes around trying to rescue stranded worms after a rainstorm (if you had any lingering doubts about my freakhood)
-Bully for you illustrating your dreams - most of my dreams are so weird and abstract, I can barely understand them while they're happening, let alone when I wake up (I fear a brain VCR would yield very little watchable material from my dreams!), and the few that are somewhat comprehensible usually go unrecorded and forgotten :(

Almost forgot-

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

-Twirlynoodle's popularity is gratifying but hardly surprising (I'm not a big enough glutton for punishment to peek and measure my well-deserved anonymity)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of work rescuers! Though not so much as I used to ... I think the worms here have some other way of riding out rainstorms because I very rarely see them on the sidewalk. Those ones in the gutter seemed to be taking care of themselves just fine so I didn't bother disturbing them.