why dreams and movies don't mix

So I stayed up last night to watch the Oscars. The whole thing. This is despite the fact that I was running on about 4 hours' sleep because of going out on Saturday and having made plans for all day Sunday. I mean, there's no one to blame in this situation but myself, and I'm not saying I would have done anything differently, but I was feeling very heavy lidded come the award for Best Picture.

Overall it was an enjoyable watching experience. I mean, it wasn't the most entertaining thing I've ever seen, but let's be honest, it's the Oscars. It's kind of a bland telecast every year.

A few highlights for me:

• I enjoyed seeing John Stewart host, as I am not-quite-secretly in love with him


• I liked that unexpected ladies took home trophies


• The actor categories were not exactly a shocker, but I liked the speeches, I thought they were both very gracious


• I could have done with a few less montages, but I understand it was the 80th Academy Awards so they had to do a little something extra and I did enjoy the one where they showed every Best Picture winner


• The couple (I don't know if they're actually a couple, but it was a guy and a girl) who won best song were cute and I was very happy when they let the girl come back out after the commercial break and actually give her acceptance speech because the guy talked for too long and she got played off stage before she even said anything - and it was a pretty good speech


• I liked Tilda Swinton's acceptance speech, I've only ever seen her play slightly scary serious roles, and I'm glad she has a sense of humor and that she made fun of George Clooney a little (I feel like it's good for ridiculously hot men to be ridiculed now and again, it keeps the ego in check at least a little)


• I liked that no one seemed to take themselves too seriously and there were no overly blatant political speeches one way or the other


• I liked that no one dwelled a lot on the writer's strike aside from what was said right at the beginning, I thought it was appropriate to acknowledge it but then to remember that this night is a celebration

Anyway, here's why watching the Oscars and having movies on the brain and then going to sleep is not the best idea. I have weird and overly realistic seeming dreams anyway, but I have to say last night was pretty up there. In the dream I was getting ready for work Monday morning when suddenly I remembered that on Friday I had made the Governer, played by this guy,

extremely angry and he had fired me from my job (and I'm pretty sure he yelled at me a lot and was very intimidating). Suddenly I didn't have a job, I wasn't going to be able to pay my rent and I was going to have to move back in with my parents or something. Not only that but I'm pretty sure the reason I got fired was because of leaking some sort of government secrets or violating some kind of really important law completely by accident. I don't remember the exact circumstances. Anyway, for whatever reason I decided it would be a good idea to go to this party I knew the Governor would be at in order to try and explain the situation and get my job back. I snuck into said party, made my way to the Governor and just as I was about to plead my case, the alarm went off. Pretty weird, huh?

Now for the even weirder part. I have this problem where I'll wake up from a dream and for approximately 2-5 minutes I will forget it was a dream and be completely convinced that whatever happened is my reality. Let's not talk about the time I dreamed I was 9 months pregnant. It was a terrifying 5 minutes. Anyway, very first thing this morning, I was completely convinced that I had lost my job on Friday. Not only that I had lost it, but that I had forgotten I lost it for two whole days. I started to have a little panic attack, but thankfully I realized at that point that the Governor of Massachusetts is not, in fact, Bruce Greenwood (the actor up yonder who does play presidential types quite a bit). Also that I have never met the Governor, I do not have a government job and even if I did it's extremely unlikely that I would be in the sort of position to have important secrets at my disposal and that it's unlikely I would break any serious laws.

I'm not really sure what it is exactly that's wrong with me that causes these sorts of things to happen, but I've just accepted them as little quirks of mine and moved on. However, it did make for a stressful start to my day and I'm sorry to tell you it hasn't gotten less stressful since then. So I did what any sensible girl who's seen waaaaay too many movies would do. I bought a movie ticket for after work so I can relax for a couple of hours and avoid rush hour traffic which I feel certain would result in my grinding my teeth to nothing by the time I got home.

So yea, um, happy Monday. :)