Met up with Dan, Bill, and Chris last night and we headed to the Bird. I was in the mood for beer and conversation, but when we got there it turned out that army/navy were playing their 'last show ever' so for some reason the Bird allowed them to play there. That kind of irritated me, since I'd love to have bands play there all the time like in the old days. So they were way too loud for conversation and they were fairly irritating musically (way too much calliope-style keyboard. Reminded me why that Doors phase everyone goes through is just a phase). Plus the fact that some guy from army/navy once talked shit about Sk88, and I was just not in the mood for it. Saw Brian, a fella I went to school with from about jr. high on - he knows Todd who I used to be in marching band with at CMU who was hanging with us. This town gets smaller every day. We were all figuring out how we know each other, and Brian said something about how he and I danced together in 7th grade, something I totally didn't remember. I still kind of don't , although I think I do remember a dance around that age where I danced with a bunch of my pals, so that must be it. My memory.

Dreamt a ton of really intense dreams last night/this morning. In the one right before I woke up, I was a ballet instructor, helping another ballet instructor teach lessons to a bunch of girls of various ages. Some were young, and some were in high school and were students at an arts boarding school. For some reason I was wearing tap shoes. Then all the other teachers and I were gathered to discuss the fact that yet another student has committed suicide in their room. It was some sort of epidemic, and no one was sure what to do about it. Weird. According to some dream symbol info I just perused on the web, the suicide thing probably indicates that I feel like people around me are making changes and moving on, progressing in their lives while I stand around and watch without a clue as to why or how. I can see that. Dance is defined in a lot of different ways (in my completely non-meaningful Google search, looking at pages with no sources, etc.) but generally seems to mean good things for social and love relationships. Or it could be that the word 'dance' was used a number of times at the bar and it got stuck in my head. Half the time I'm interested in knowing this stuff, and the other half I think it's a bunch of f-ing bullshit.