I had a school nightmare last night. I drempt (dreampt?) that I was taking my Economics final. My teacher uses those ScanTron sheets where you fill in the little circles for his answer sheet. Well, as I was taking my final, I was writing all of my answers on notebook paper instead. I think that my question sheet was covering the ScanTron sheet on my desk, so it didn't occur to me even use it. Well, when I was done with the test, I turned in my answer sheet to be graded. When I sat back down at my desk, I saw the ScanTron sheet and panicked. I raced back up to his desk and asked for my answer sheet back and I saw him looking at it. Then I noticed that I had totally messed up the numbering on my sheet, so all my answers were probably wrong. And I was really pissed because I currently have a 91.5% in the class and the only reason I am taking the final (in real life) is to try get at least an 82% on the test to give me an A in the course.
He wouldn't let me take the test back and transfer my answers even though there was 45 minutes of test time left. I started crying and berating him and throwing a tantrum. He decided that he would look at one answer on the test, and if I got it right, then he would 'work something out'. Well, the question he picked was correct and he gave me a C on the final. And I was livid going into the whole "I need and 82% to get an A" fit. He wouldn't budge. I was so angry.
You'd think that I would have had a nightmare about giving a speech naked because I have to give a PowerPoint presentation today, but no; I drempt (dreampt?) about screwing up one of the easiest finals ever. I can't wait until this semester is over.
Coincidently, Dani had a bad dream the other night. When I put her to bed last night she was a little anxious. I looked at her pillow and said, "Is that the side of your pillow you've been sleeping on?"
She looked at her pillow and said, "Yeah."
Then I said, "Well no wonder you had a bad dream, you've been sleeping on the wrong side!!! We just have to turn it over."
Her eyes lit up like she had just seen me invent sliced bread. That is something that my Mom did when we were little and it worked every time. I guess I learned something from her.
No nightmares from her last night.
I guess I forgot to check my pillow.
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A little anxious about school?
Love the turn the pillow over trick. When the trusty husband was a kid and he or his sisters went into their parents room in the middle of the night to say they didn't feel good or had a bad dream FIL would tell them to take their socks off. Cure all for everything.
I haven't been in school for almost five years and have no immediate intention of going back but I have school nightmares, too. Mostly I dream that it's finals time and I've skipped the whole semester and will now flunk. Or that the Dean is calling and I'm flunking out of college. Leaves me shaking every time!
I love the pillow trick...I am totally using that when we have kids.
The pillow trick is great. I don't know if I can calm a 10-year old with that, but I'll keep it in the arsenal!
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