Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Just woke from a dream, 10:40 or 10:45.

I was working with Grissom from the television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (what's his first name, "Gil"? Anyhow, it was definitely the character I was working with, not just the actor who plays him), on a site where we were required to shore up a building in various ways so that it wouldn't fall down on our heads while we were investigating whatever crime we were investigating. For some reason this involved having people hold up the great honking huge center column of the building while somebody sliced it diagonally with a saw, spread wood glue on the faces of the cut, drilled a hole sideways through it, bolted the pieces back together, and then stuck carpenter's clamps all over the joint (though the first two clamps we put on were actually Vise-Grips and we put proper wood clamps on just below those). In fact, we seemed to be doing a lot more carpentry than clue-collecting in general, though I vaguely remember that we were trying to overhear an incriminating conversation between some other people while we were working. Something I noticed while ... [a character from the show whose name escapes me at the moment] and I were putting clamps on some other structural building component and he handed me the wrong kind of clamp (something that didn't open wide enough to span the thickness of two 2x4s).

I spoke to Grissom about getting more of the right type of clamp, and about what we'd overheard, and he was poking at something under the floor that he'd had to shore up from a tricky angle. (The look under the floor, through where some floorboards had been removed, reminded me of xpioti's previous house.) He went into teacher-mode like he does on the show, and was explaining something utterly fascinating to me that I can't remember now.

Then I was talking to Grissom outside, asking him for advice on something, trying to compensate for his hearing loss once I remembered it, without letting on that I knew about it. A flying-saucer-shaped rotary-wing aircraft that I'd seen before went by overhead. I'm pretty sure it was a police aircraft, but it was white with turquoise markings on it instead of the black of the Baltimore police helicopter. (At this point I can't remember whether it had a helicopter rotor over the saucer fuselage, or a ducted fan inside the saucer, or shifted back and forth the way things in dreams sometimes do. If it had a rotor above the fuselage, the proportions were different from a normal helicopter. I'm pretty sure I saw a rotor/fan when it tipped.) It abruptly banked sharply to starboard nearly sideways, then changed its mind and banked just as hard to port, crossed over our heads, then slipped sideways and dropped behind some buildings. I thought it didn't look at all good, and wondered what the point of the maneuver was. Then I saw the flames. I tapped Grissom on the shoulder and pointed, just as the flames were replaced by a fireball, at which point he and I both took off running. I yelled that it looked like one to two blocks south and less than a block west.

Grissom ran a whole lot faster than I, leaping over some Jersey barriers at a construction site we had to cross. While I ran, I realized that I had left my camera inside the building we had been working on. Grissom and I got separated. The construction site started looking more like an elementary school. Construction workers that I ran past looked at me funny, and I yelled, "Helicopter down! Fireball! This way!" and they fell in behind me.

I woke up when I got to the other side of the construction site and was on a grassy hill near a shopping center and couldn't see the crash site. I was looking over the rooftops to spot the smoke, figuring that I'd gotten off course crossing the construction site, when I woke.

I took a moment to decide whether to write the dream down here or in my paper diary, decided I'd probably get more of it out before forgetting it here, leapt out of bed, and noticed the snow falling past my window. Gee, maybe I should've checked a weather forecast sometime in the last two days. I don't remember their mentioning snow for today a few days ago (though I do recall hearing something about rain late in the day). Of course, my memory of forecasts from a few days ago could be faulty.

Right now it's sticking to cars and to the cracks in the sidewalk but mostly just making pavement wet. Oh bother! I needed to go to the grocery store today, and now it's going to be full of people doing snow shopping! Bleah.

I definitely have not slept long enough. But my back does feel somewhat better. I should find something breakfastlike.