Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I was most peeved with the alarm clock this morning, it woke me up in the middle of a fantabulous dream. I was one of the Leverage gang and we were in mid-job! Actually that's the second really good Leverage dream I've had this week and on both occasions I had mozzarella cheese before going to bed.......*sidles over to Morrisons, buys large block of mozzarella cheese* What? What?! :)

This weekend should be fun. I've still got my Bill Hicks DVD to watch (I got sidetracked the last time I said I was watching it), Transporter 2 arrived this week, I've got the latest Sister Frevisse mystery fresh from Amazon and it's the NFL playoffs this weekend. *sighs happily* That should keep me out of mischief :)

The only problem I have now is what do I do first? Oh wait, I know! Eat food! :D

OK, brain, what's the deal? I didn't eat cheese last thing, I stayed off the tea after 10pm and I wasn't watching anything wacky on TV. So why did you give me a dream all about helping a Chinese girl escape from her village because she had committed a crime and was running from Sherlock Holmes, whom I worked for?!

*blinks*

That was the craziest yet most coherent dream I think I've had for ages. Apart from the idea of Sherlock Holmes being in China and investigating crimes, it all made sense - how she got away, how I helped cover her tracks, how I diverted their attention when they nearly caught up with her at another town. I suspect if I attempted to write it down, I'd find all the flaws but never mind, it was great fun to dream and I got to outwit Sherlock Holmes - oh, wait! That's the flaw! *giggles*

I had a fantabulous dream last night, one of those that I actually thought, while dreaming "I MUST remember this!" and I have, mostly :) There were 3 people, 2 men and a woman. The woman is the shadowiest figure, because at times I was the woman and at times, she was a separate character. The men, however, I can remember clearly. One was a guy who had been working for whomever we worked for for a while, the other was a new guy who had just been brought in. There was a bit of rivalry because new boy had been more places and had way more experience than the guy who'd been there a long time. The kicker is, both guys were, well, not robots, but some form of androids/x-men type enhanced human beans.

All three of us worked for some shadowy agency, that seemed to be involved in some sort of anti-espionage or anti-crime work, but we weren't police. We were official but not MI5 or anything like that. Heh. New Avengers, mebbe :D Anyway, we did good work in the dream, bugging a hotel room and tracking the bad guy through, bizarrely, my old home town of Dunstable. I have no idea what the bad guy had done but I do know we got our man :)

Even when I was asleep, I was thinking this was a great concept and I should remember it. I've been pondering it on and off all day and I'm not so sure about the concept now, but it was a lot of fun to dream about :)

Talking of dreams, I am SO going to bed once the football is done. I can barely keep my eyes open. Like an idiot, I stayed up too late last night and then compounded the felony by reading for an hour (new book! 's really good!*) when I got to bed. I never learn :P

* "The Janissary Tree" by Jason Goodwin. Just won an Edgar. It's a historical mystery, featuring Yashim the eunuch, who lives in 19th century Instanbul. The setting is superb - historical Constantinople has fascinated me ever since I read "Pawns in Frankincense" by Dorothy Dunnett and the Jester novels "Jester Leaps In" and "A Death in the Venetian Quarter" just aided and abetted that interest. I'm liking the character of Yashim so far, although we, the readers, are still learning about him. The mystery is promising to be very twisty indeed. I'll post a proper review when I'm done :)

Had a great dream last night, involving thalinoviel taking me out to a nightclub. The actual visit to the club wasn't clear to me (in the dream) but the aftermath was - my hair had been dyed and patches shaved off!

I found it hilarious that even in dreams thalinoviel is a Bad Influence :D