At a conference with Cornell colleagues again, hybrid with a school summer camp. I fly in to Bayside where it’s being held. Cat, Gerardo, DJ, and Angela are all there.

I’m the morning we take a minivan to our destination. A king and queen ant were wandering the cabin, but they both really looked more like termite queens, where the “king” had big pincers, and the queen just had short pincers. I remark on this to Angela when we see her.

We’re in CA with Andrew. We are playing a milsim, and Andrew’s leading us to some objective.

Playing scrabble with my family. Matthew puts “gleoc” down and I’m like, “what, the beast from Zelda?” He’s like yeah, and I storm off, throwing a piece across the parking lot(?), muttering that fine I’ll start playing animal noises next. It wasn’t even spelled right, it’s gleeok. I try to find the piece but I cannot, I only find matchbooks on the floor. I figure the item might have gotten smushed by now. Someone else’s mom is screaming at her kids while they get into their car.

Neighborhood of some sort. Logitech security cameras can show stats of individuals. One dude arrives and begins terrorizing the neighborhood, his strength stat is super high (43, apparently super high). His appearance is incongruent; a lanky white boy who carried an electric guitar around.

In the navy. We’re on an exercise pulling fishing gear owned by the government. It’s some sort of deep sea fishing operation. I fall overboard. Fortunately the swim back is not difficult, but I’m motivated to get back because they discharge sailors who fall overboard. The captain is a hard ass.

Giant high school reunion in a swamp.

See people like Brian Jung, Julie Kim, other random people. Julie Kim in particular says hi and it’s awkward. Some of the popular kids were living in tents in expensive cities. I remember realizing that that could be a possibility now.

I give out some computer puzzle, evidently I’m leading some of this. One guy figures it out, it’s a puzzle that prints out some ascii art of a halo scene, and when zoomed just right the moiree makes it look 3D. Others are having trouble because they have macs and I coded it in git bash on windows.

Some sort of chemistry exam coming up. Asked Matt how he did, since he took it earlier. I don’t think he was optimistic. I was hoping my AP chem would kick in for it.

Dreamt in some sort of puzzle game like escape the backrooms. Pulled the wrong lever and half a dozen monsters came out to kill me. Level reset, and I pull the right levers.

I ask a person nearby if I could take their simple bow from their bag, like the one from the Forest. I go through the newly opened door.

Dreamt Lisa and I prepping for Christmas. On line waiting to mail letters. Letters sent by teams now. Long line through narrow corridor. Get to postal agent and she informs us of the absurd price. I get mad. We return home through thick snow. Neighbor is a strange place.

I’m driving my Corolla. Near grandmas apartment. Something bad happens and some crazy fucking lady tries to get into my car. I speed away up the hill, stopping between two people. I convince them to find out what happened with the scary lady. Hae Kim was being trafficked in a block of ice.

Scientific group working on Covid, but very unscientific and really just a bunch of older ladies.

Left this house and went down a rooftop area. Landed near a car on a tight roof and figure the car had to have gotten there somehow, found a slope down.

Some guy comes out threatens me with a gun. I knew he wouldn’t shoot me, so I continue on like nothing. He gives up, and becomes friendly.

Drifting through space outer wilds style, nothing but my suit and its thrusters.

I’ve taken it off because it was hot, have to rush to get it on because a friend notified me we had to land soon.

In the distance, a large skeleton not unlike the anglerfish, with a white hole in its mouth. Apparently we needed to find some organism that gave us something to get into the skeleton.

With my family somewhere. I make a racist joke to my father, swapping the e for a Jews to Jaws. He didn’t laugh.

Very suicidal early on. With my family, I break a wine bottle to cut myself with it. Family doesn’t try hard to help.

Practicing defense like a video game. Particular class lets one take down bugs easier.

A giant honey comb breaks a tree limb from limb. Parts land on an AC unit. Bugs start entering the house. Lisa untroubled.

Driving Izabele and team into a parking garage. She says “rev” like she wanted me to rev my engine, but I think she was talking about the ticket dispenser being broken. A key was inserted, and to get the gate up you just turned it. A busted up blue Tesla was on the corner.

Met some guy incredibly good at Mario kart, a mutual acquaintance of someone else. Exceptionally good. I had an older version of MK though. On my way out I paused by them as they were practicing and fiddled with my own game. I shut it, it was a game boy SP. Guy wanted me to put together a web app on MK stats for him, calling out to me as I was leaving that the data should be dumped into a database or something.