It Was Only A Dream, Right?

Had the weirdest dream last night.  One of those that wakes you up in the middle of the night going WTF?  It is now afternoon and I've finally managed to shake it, mostly. 

I became aware that I was dreaming about the time that I had a mumbled, still half asleep conversation with one of my co-workers.  While we were in bed together.  Naked.  Not that this person isn't nice and all but he isn't someone I would normally be in bed with, especially sans clothes.  Nothing kinky or sexual going on, just, well, nakedness. 
I don't remember any of the conversation but evidently I wasn't giving the correct answers or was too sleepy to make sense because he got out of bed, got dressed and left.  I eventually decided it was time to get up too and found myself in the bedroom I grew up in, circa 1987.  I pulled a nightshirt that I haven't even owned in about 20 years out of the dresser, put it on, and went to the kitchen.
On the way to the kitchen I passed several tables in the hallway where various co-workers, including my bed-buddy from above, were having breakfast.  Some dressed for work, some still in PJs, none naked (thank goodness).  Got to the kitchen, again from the house I grew up in, and started bitching that there was no orange juice.  My sister shows up and shows me there is orange juice in the other fridge, opens the door to the pantry and voila, it is a refrigerator and there are three more cartons of orange juice.  I then bitch that there may be juice but no soy milk because all the people at the tables, all my co-workers, drank it all and I can't possibly eat my cereal with real milk. 
I then notice that not only are most of the people around are either family members or current co-workers but there are dozens of dogs running around and getting underfoot.  The dog I had growing up, Daisy, is playing with Walter the bulldog while a bunch of little yappy dogs are being chased by black labs and golden retrievers.   

And I woke up.  It took me a few minutes to realize that I was in my house not the one I grew up in.  And that there were no naked co-workers in my bed. Or dogs running around my kitchen.  Had my WTF moment and then went back to sleep. 

And yes, when I saw the co-worker earlier today I blushed.  Couldn't help it. 

I Am Legend (2007)

I know I’m going to be asked to turn in my geek/fangirl card for this….but I actually liked this movie. I know! Its Will Smith, it is way different than the book, etc. Still, I enjoyed it. I didn’t expect to. I tried to read the book twice and didn’t get through it either time – it was just too boring for me. And I tried the graphic novel a few years back. Same problem.

 

Maybe I liked it because I wasn’t expecting a big action flick or a typical vampire film. I knew going into it that the movie has some action scenes, never really tries to hide the monsters, and is more about the human condition – what it means to be completely alone and what that does to the psyche. And looking at it like that I thought it did a decent job.

 

No, I didn’t cry in the scene with the dog because I knew it was coming. And yes, the ending is just a little too contrived. I would have liked it better if Anna and Ethan were quasi-infected with their own agenda instead of fellow survivors. The whole God talks to me thing was a little much although it does allow for some meaty scene chewing by Smith. 

 

The movie definitely hit a nerve with me psychologically. I had a hard time falling asleep Friday night – every time I closed my eyes I pictured the Alpha Male lunging at me.

 

Will I watch it again? Maybe sometime when it’s on cable. Will I ever read the book again and actually finish it? I doubt it.