Weird dreams and sadness

[dr4b]

I had this dream that I went back to Northeast Philly to visit my high school, except that I had to wake up early and come in from downtown. I was on the 58 bus, except it looked like the 358 bus in Seattle. Rather than actally stopping at my high school like it's supposed to, it went down Haldeman street and never stopped. So I got off the bus and had to walk like half a mile to a place where I had the choice to walk another 3/4 mile or just wait for another bus. I was tired so I waited for another bus. Had to chase this one down, and I asked, "Do you stop at Bustleton and Verree?" and the bus driver said yeah. So I waited on the bus except it took a weird route around and by the time it hit Bustleton it was already up near Tomlinson. So in my frustration I ran off this bus too... all of the stores on Bustleton had totally changed - what was weirder was I could see the, umm, diffs of the store names. I finally got to my school and went in and tried to get a visitor's pass and at that point I woke up.

On another note, a friend of mine in Pittsburgh died yesterday (well, an ex-coworker, but someone I had a lot of respect for, from Claritech). She had cancer, but last time I saw her, which I think was at Ralph's birthday party exactly 6 months ago, she seemed to be doing fabulously well with her treatments and all. So I'm kind of surprised, and kind of sad... she was only 49. I don't really know what I can do about it from 3000 miles away, but blah. (edit: I don't see any reason not to mention that it was Deirdre Hutchinson, for the benefit of others who might have known her from Claritech or CMU.)