Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"We have a pathology in this country. We're a self-governing country whose citizens don't actually believe in self-governance and in fact don't know how their government actually works." -- NonyNony, Lawyers, Guns, and Money, comments [thanks to realinterrobang for quoting this earlier]

Slept very poorly (much interrupted; leg cramps, unable to find a comfortable position, etc.), and finally woke from a very vivid dream about sea level rise (higher than I hear anyone predicting), migration from coastal areas into the Appalachians, cultural shifts in WV from the arrival of large numbers of lowlanders, and relieving the resulting tensions by way of new types of fusion music, particularly finding common ground in the creation of swing-metal.

What woke me was when the dream turned to issues of transportation infrastructure for relocated industries (the water was getting really, really high in my dream), and effects of water pollution from the flooding of dumps, cities, and industrial sites abandoned in too much of a hurry to do any remediation before the sea took them.  (When problem solving in a dream gets to the point where I'm making charts and spreadsheets and discussing interlocking policy proposals, that generally wakes me up.  Many's the morning I wake after too little sleep because a dream got too surreal to avoid "going meta", or too mathy to keep doing all the problem solving in my sleep.)