Monday, May 7, 2007

Interruptions

I'm living in a very tall apartment complex, at least 50 stories high. The outer apartments on every floor are actually open-air kitchens. Every floor is a different cultural style of cooking. All of the cooks face outward from the grill they stand over. I happened to be on the Mexican floor (Fitting given that Cinco De Mayo just passed).

The floor upon which the cooks stand is not whole. The floor half against the wall behind the cooks is open to the floor below. If the cook were to step back too far they would fall to their death.

The grilling sections are broken up from one another with aisles used to get from the elevators and stairs to the sections in front of the cooks. These aisles have halfwalls between themselves and the cooks, so you can see the whole line of grills and cooks, and the area behind them. I look over the half wall, and realize that my mouth has too much saliva and I need to spit.

I wake up and this still appears to be the case. I walk to the bathroom sink to take care of it, then return to my bed to fall back asleep. I acted pretty quickly, and managed to fall right back to sleep with no effort.

I found myself back in the same building, but everyone is panicking now. There are frost white, faceless giants walking around the city shattering buildings. The frost white giants dwarfed the buildings. I bolt for the stairs and make it to my car. Heading for the interstate highway, I found other giants smashing cars along the roadway. These giants were colorless and smaller, but still very large in comparison to the cars.

I scoot past several giants and wrecked cars. Other cars are around me driving like maniacs trying to get away from the devastation.

Using the on-board navigation system I find an exit to a peninsula off the coast and take it. No one else exits there. The road upon which I end up is lined with many palm trees. I catch-up to a car that was already on the road. Driving that car is Laura Roslin, President of the Twelve Colonies.

I call out to her and she motions me to follow. We end up in a city block on the peninsula made up of skyscrapers. She parks in a large alley between buildings and Secret Service agents come out to receive her and bring her in, even though the giants are expected to arrive. The door locks behind them so I could not follow. I get back in the car and try to go back the way I came, but as I start to move, I see an enormous freight train drive off the top of the building on the other side of the alley and fall to the ground, blocking my path. Train cars continue to fall off and start piling up, then tumbling off the pile towards me. I exit the car and run, looking back to see one damage the car I was driving.

Just then, a small latin woman dressed as maid motions me to a door, then shows me to the bathroom.

I wake up, and go to use the restroom, then return to bed to go back to sleep.

Once asleep, I see the same maid let me out of the building. She pulls a wand from her apron and zaps my car to fix the damage. I get back in the car and find another exit from the alley and leave the city, then wake up again.

3 comments:

Namowal (Jennifer Bourne) said...

http://www.blogger.com/home
Your other link, "French Toast Girl" is listed as "today's notable blog" (which seems to be different than "blogs of note). If this is your friend, she's famous now. :)

Namowal (Jennifer Bourne) said...

D'oh
It was the notable blog back in April. Whoops. My Bad

GhostBuild said...

I admit that I visited French Toast Girl because of that very link. I felt compelled to link it because I really like the artstyle, though I actually never communicated with that person.

I'd love to start drawing again.... maybe even post some of that to my blog. We'll see. :-)