I feel like I don't know you at all, physically.

That's a quote from my dream last night. It was a rather odd dream in which a person who I am good friends with, but have no interest in romantically, gets professes some rather romantic feelings for me. It was particularly strange because while the setting was far from realistic and all kinds of characters background characters were interacting in places and with people that didn't make any sense, all of the protagonists (particularly myself and said friend) remained very true to character. That is to say, he was awkward and cute in a very lost puppy sort of way, and after he professed his love I told him that he was adorable and that I thought he was a great person but that I was very much in love with my boyfriend and, consequently, nothing would ever happen between the two of us. He took it rather well.

All of the scenes outside of our interactions were completely surreal. I was in places that I didn't know with a very random cast of characters that was entirely unlikely for this particular plot. Yet, the scenes with us in them were spot on, aside from the fact that I very much doubt this person has any feelings for me at all. It was also one of those dreams that I remember almost perfectly after waking up which is rare.

Anyway, I thought that line was particularly good. I mean, the fact that I write dialogue in my sleep cracks me up to begin with. But the fact that I remembered this one line word for word, and the fact that it barely makes sense makes me particularly happy. It would make more sense if this character had simply been referring to sex, but he wasn't. His character in the dream (much like the person in real life) would be more interested in romance than sex, so it was a very funny turn of phrase (and yet something I feel pretty sure he would have said).

And I now look back at this post and think... and who besides me would give a shit? I'm not at all sure. But, I felt the need to write about it, and since it would appear that no one really reads this anyway, I guess it doesn't matter. Hopefully I'll be writing more later having to do with things other than obscure dreams in which real people proclaim their imaginary love. Until then...

Kindling my imagination.

Amazon should probably pay me for this next post. But, oh well, the Kindle is amazing enough they deserve the pro bono. So, I mentioned in my last post that I had ordered an Amazon Kindle (did I mention that I ordered it RIGHT after the price went down so I saved 70 bucks?) it arrived a few days later and I have been supremely happy with it. Things that are awesome about the Kindle:

1.  It's tiny, but in a good way. It's much slimmer than I had expected, yet it's hefty enough to feel like it's well made and to mimic the weight of a book. Solid yay!
2. It has free 3G wireless all over the freakin' world including Japan!!!!!! So fucking cool I don't even know where to start. I can check my e-mail (slow as shit because of the screen loading system) from a moving car WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. (This is a feature I can hardly get over.) I can also order new books from anywhere and start reading them instantly. ROCK!
3. Reading on it is just almost pleasant as reading a real book in most ways (it is exactly as easy on the eyes as paper which was my main concern). Is reading a real book better? Yes (there are some things about holding a physical book that can't really be explained and  can never be trumped). But not by so much that I would forgo the portability 1000s of books gained by the kindle.
4. It goes everywhere! Not that books don't go everywhere but it goes everywhere and is MANY books at once. 
5. It does PDFs. Sometime in a recent-ish software update my microsoft word gained the ability to convert to PDF (I know this was possible for lots of other people at earlier times, but for the version of windows I have it was relatively new.) I used this to turn some of my work-in-progress novels into PDFs in order to have them around as references while I continue writing by hand. This is DOPE! It means I can work far far away from my oh-so-distracting laptop. Sweetness!
6. The screen savers are pictures of famous authors and other cool black and white images. I love this! (Very minor plus, but still cool.)
7. I've run out of listable items in my head but I'm sure there are more. Take it from me, the Kindle rocks!

Ok. So, that list completed, I should probably talk about drawbacks to the Kindle. The only one that I've encountered so far is one that probably won't affect most people, but here goes: You have to have a credit card (or debit card that is visa/mastercard etc.) signed up to an amazon.com one click account in order to buy books for the Kindle. This is perhaps a minor inconvenience for some people. For me, it's a MAJOR pain in the ass. Why? Because due to me being on the other side of the world and my bank being dumber-than-the-dumbest-pile-of-dog-droppings-ever-crapped-out-by-the-dumbest-dog-with-irritated-bowels-ever-to-walk-the-earth stupid, I can't the card information for my OWN fucking bank account and consequently can't pay for anything in dollars other than by check. Sigh. Obviously, this is not Amazon.com's fault. But, they would make my life immeasurably easier  if they would allow me to buy my books with my checking information instead. Le sigh.

Whew. Glad I got that off my chest. Moving on!

So, I've been writing up a storm the past few days. My latest novel (the one I started back in November) has been put on hold for a while because I lost confidence in it as a story. Thanks to rereading it lately (all 444 pages of it after I put it onto my Kindle) and realizing I desperately wanted to know what happened next (always a good sign) I have taken up the pen again and for the last few days have been clipping along (at least as far as writing by hand goes). So, that's a very exciting development. I'm looking forward to getting through to the end and then going back and taking a machete to the beginning. In rereading it, I realized that while I do love the story and it's well worth continuing, I wrote some epic sections of drivel. Oops.

With that said, I will give up this post and move onto my other writing. My characters await and I am already up long past my bedtime, best to visit them before I go to sleep though or they may well haunt my dreams. Wouldn't want that. Cheeky bastards.