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So last night I dreamed of child actors. Lots of them. First one of them was being interviewed, then I was watching tons of them at some sort of camp. There was a line of trees in the camp (in a place which looked conspicuously like my kitchen, except outdoors) inhabited by a bunch of female pheasants. All of us (I mean me and the actorettes) got to see the mating rituals of the pheasants twice, once when two males approached the trees, then another time at night when only one male returned. The display at night was gorgeous. Picture several large pheasants per tree, joyously ignoring the fact that females are supposed to have drab plumage, spreading peacocky feathers stuffed around with smaller feathers from their tails. The neat thing was that they were an authentic drab brown until the male(s) approached, then suddenly their tails opened up to POW! Colors galore! And the night scene was under a full moon, so the tails glistened so. The actorettes were transfixed. It was marvelous.

Sometimes I think not being able to tell that I'm dreaming is a good thing. Maybe if I could tell, it would lose some of its wonder.

The sky looks a bit overcast today, but it's to the point where I can't tell if it's overcast or "overcast". I'm sure that they haven't gotten all of the fires contained yet, so it could be smoke. Still no windows open, just to be sure.

I got a cell phone yesterday: the BlackBerry Pearl. Hey, I figure if I have to get a phone to keep in touch, might as well get a fun one, and trust me, with AT&T, your options are limited. Also: Costco sells it for an unbelievably low price. I'm liking it so far; the predictive text works great. Every key has two letters, but you basically just start typing (pressing once on each key) and it figures out what word you really mean. Now, I've tried T-9 before, which is this thing that's supposed to anticipate what you're typing and stuff, but... it doesn't work. It invariably picks a laughably incorrect word -- you might as well just multi-touch it and be sure you're typing "hi what r u doing" instead of "help we ran under doggie-doo". But predictive text on the BlackBerry actually WORKS, probably because each key has only two letters, and the layout is qwerty, so letters that are next to each other are very unlikely to be used in similar places.

Reality check. Check out those pheasants...