Nightmare!!!

I had a terrible nightmare last night - the kind that just breaks you in your dream, so you end up sobbing your heart out and it wakes you up because your breath is hitching, even though there aren't any tears on your face, and then sometimes you do cry, because it was just that bad and that scary and you can't get out of it.

I dreamed I was in a movie theatre, and a man was lecturing about the news, playing on the screen silently. He was telling us all that George W. Bush had taken the State of California by one vote, decisively handing the national election to the Republican party. And I looked at the person next to me and I realized it was Thursday. And I'd forgotten to vote. And I said "Oh my god, I forgot to vote!" and she waved one manicured hand at me and said, "Oh, me too, honey, it happens" and I looked at the screen and the man was using a pointer and saying "One vote" and I fell to my knees in the stale popcorn and said, again, "I forgot to vote" and then I was crying so hard I woke myself up.

The moral of this story is something about complacency in the electorate. Please, people, when November comes? Remember to vote.

Love is like video games.

So, last night, my charming husband is trying to get me away from the computer. Neither of us was hungry, and we've seen a lot of movies lately, so we were looking for other options. I suggested we purchase Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, as we'd played the first one together several times. He seemed unenthusiastic, which is unlike him when it comes to video games, so I asked him what the problem was, and he said:

"I just hate when we're somewhere, and you keep not seeing the exit, when I'm like 'There it is! There it is!' and you're all looking around you and like, 'oooh shiny!' and then I'm dead."

Sadly, this is a microcosm of our day-to-day interactions. Complete spacecase teamed up with detail-oriented safety nut. Welcome to my marriage.

In other news, Himself is now upstairs, watching the first season of The Office, which I can't join him in enjoying because even the virtual presence of the David Brent character is too repugnant to bear. I am, however, delighted to hear that Martin Freeman (who plays the show's only likeable character) has been cast as Arthur Dent in the upcoming movie of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He'll be fabulous.

These two things are related (really!) through (a) the involvement of Himself and (b) the fact that my first and forever favorite video game ever was the HHGG Infocom text adventure. God, I loved that game.

So, basically, it's a lazy saturday, I have PMS, and I cant' quite wake up. So. Useless brainshare.