I was driving back from somewhere in southern Virginia on the highway, and I needed to stop for gas. The rest stop that I pulled off at was rather strange. On one edge of the parking lot was a small curbed-off field where several people were lounging and relaxing. There were a few signs there, facing towards the parking lot...
Well, first off, I somehow knew that this facility belonged to the band Café Tacvba, and throughout the dream I had a couple songs by them playing in the background. So something inside me expected to see Spanish writing on all the signs. But as I stared at the signs, I realized they were actually written in some kind of informal Esperanto. Many words that I would have expected to end in -o (i.e. nouns) ended instead with an accented syllable ending in a consonant. But the clincher was that one sign on the right end of the field actually simply had the word "Esperanto" on it. (This sign was in the middle of a few vertically stacked signs — the others may have been gasoline prices.) I think there must have been at least one sign asking for donations to whatever cause Café Tacvba was sponsoring here.
I went inside a restroom. I noticed that inside the restroom there were a couple small gas pumps, but I couldn't imagine how someone would fit a car in here. A sign near the pumps mentioned that you could only buy up to 2 gallons of gas there. I guessed that maybe people could drag their motorbikes in here...
Anyway, I found the normal gas pumps outside and across the parking lot to the right.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Demonstrating word meanings
Near the end of a semester, talking about a word list for a made up language with two female peers. Someone throws a ball or something into the street on the other side of a narrow strip of woods and I cross the street to get it, demonstrating the word "abase" - to cross. Other words included "birch" + "jum(b)".
I also dreamt I woke up once and failed to write this down. Was in the old house and my alarm hadn't worked on the last day of classes.
I also dreamt I woke up once and failed to write this down. Was in the old house and my alarm hadn't worked on the last day of classes.
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