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That stupid carpet. We are at a new house (again!) and we are talking about pulling up the carpet because it is in rooms that it really should not be in. --- Wanting to give a talk for authors at the library. My dream mixes up two people that I know in real life. --- I am walking through an American university campus. Apparently there is a new trend where entrepreneurs rent out chairs for five bucks. The chairs come with cherries, and there is something to do with cheese? You might be sitting on it, though. The cherries look pretty meh, and a lot of the people around think it is silly because the whole point is to go for a walk with your chair and then find a good space to hang out. Who wants to walk? And they only take cash. I go to walk away from the chairs, but the lady manning the chair-pile clears her throat and I realize that I am hanging onto one of the chairs. I put it back in the chair pile, but she keeps glaring at me and I realize that I am also carrying a chair in my other hand. I put it back. On the edge of the chair booth, there is a short plastic fence blocking a steep, steep hill. I decide to hop over the fence, but I have a little bit of trouble with it. The chair-lady moves her chair a bit to let me pass. I get over the fence and I am falling, bounce partway down the hill and land at the bottom, going into a roll. I have enough momentum that I keep running out of the roll, onto the sidewalk and-- Near miss. A bus almost hits me as it goes around the corner. I laugh, exhilarated, and keep running. If I run through the park, it will be cool enough despite the hot day. I keep running, and eventually find myself at a library. I go into the building, heading towards the climbing wall (because there is always a climbing wall in libraries.) I am going to climb it without ropes. At this point, I stop and say "I am dreaming. I know I am dreaming," mostly so that when I do my challenges, my waking self will know that I am allowed to claim the points. I jump onto the wall and take the first few holds, moving upwards and then along a "ceiling" that juts out from the wall. Up and around, and I am counting as I go "six moves, seven moves, eight moves." I am two-thirds of the way up the wall. I change gears, moving over to the "hard" side on the left. The final moves require you to move out from the wall and hang, unsupported by your legs. They look scary--the theme involves jutting teeth and wild colours. I reach for the final moves: "fourteen, fifteen--" And with a wild swing, I push out from the wall and barely keep my grip-- "Sixteen!" I shout, and let myself drop. At the bottom of the wall, a man working for the library/climbing wall wants to know whether I thought it was too easy (but I tell him that I am kind of playing on cheat mode, and it is fine). He asks about the first few moves on the "basic" side, and I tell him that they are perfect. Next on my list: teleporting. I focus on the neighbouring house that I want to use for my Week 1 Comp task, and fwoosh-- Find myself pushed back into the waking world.