nightmare.

Amanda [10:43 AM]:
oh man

Amanda [10:43 AM]:
i am in a terrible mood today

Amanda [10:43 AM]:
i had the scariest dream last night!

Janelle [10:44 AM]:
o man

Janelle [10:44 AM]:
tell me

Amanda [10:44 AM]:
okay...

Amanda [10:44 AM]:
so the dream started with me living on a farm

Amanda [10:44 AM]:
it was very dallas

Amanda [10:44 AM]:
anyway, one day i was out in the woods near my house with someone who resembled miss ellie (of dallas)

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
and we realized that a lot of our cats were mysteriously dead

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
i guess we had a lot of farm cats

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
anyway, my grandfather said that it was probably poisoning

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
because someone was trying to get revenge

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
i was really scared, so i decided to take a walk into town

Amanda [10:45 AM]:
except the "town" was more like LA

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
a cop ran up to me and said, "you better hide."

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
i didn't understand why he meant that

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
but then i heard a lot of gunshots

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
a bus came screeching around the corner

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
i ran into the nearby stairwell of a parking garage

Amanda [10:46 AM]:
the bus driver came tearing in with a little boy in his arms

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
"watch him," he commanded. and then he ran away.

Janelle [10:47 AM]:
O

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
i realized that the boy had been shot

Janelle [10:47 AM]:
!!!

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
he was sitting in an ever-expanding puddle of blood

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
i realized that he was already dead

Janelle [10:47 AM]:

:(

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
i looked out the window and saw that the block was filled with men with flesh-colored plastic machine guns

Amanda [10:47 AM]:
there were buses everywhere

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
somehow i knew that these men had robbed a huge bank

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
even though that was their original plan

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
now they realized that they just wanted to kill as many people as possible

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
they didn't even care about the money any more

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
i had to hide.

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
i ran up the stairs opening one door after another

Amanda [10:48 AM]:
i just wanted to find a room with a locking door

Janelle [10:49 AM]:
Right

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
i went through a maze of interconnecting rooms

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
but none of the doors locked

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
finally i found a room.

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
the floor and walls were concrete and there were no windows

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
the door actually locked!

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
so i felt safe.

Janelle [10:49 AM]:
(picture of key)

Amanda [10:49 AM]:
but then...a voice from somewhere told me that i would never be safe

Janelle [10:49 AM]:
Whoa

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
and i was kidding myself if i thought that someone couldn't get in that room.

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
so i opened the door and walked out

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
and i was at work!

Janelle [10:50 AM]:
oh god!

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
there was a huge meeting going on

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
so i just sat down, trying to be cool.

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
and then...

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
someone i don't know

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
came in, made some unintelligible statement

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
and then

Amanda [10:50 AM]:
began shooting at everyone!

Janelle [10:50 AM]:
!!!!!!!!!!!

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
so now i was scrambling to hide in the bathroom

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
because i knew that was the only room here with a lock

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
i hid in the corner of the bathroom

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
i could hear chaos outside:

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
people screaming and crying and begging.

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
a trickle of blood started to seep in under the door.

Janelle [10:51 AM]:
Whoa

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
and then it turned into a huge puddle.

Amanda [10:51 AM]:
and then i made myself wake up!

Amanda [10:52 AM]:
because i was freaking out!!!!!!


My phone rings. It is Janelle...suggesting that I go to yoga tonight. "You're really stressed out, I think!"