Weird Dream Channel

I am in a grocery store swimming on my back as part of some kind of publicity promotion for the store. The manager is elated to have the champion swimmer drawing crowds into her store. The manager is an androgynous person I know IRL but in the dream she is like the stereotypical middle aged housewife, no one doubts she is a woman. Someone shows up in the store who is apparently an even more famous swimmer than I am, the store floods with water (there was not water before, I was just swimming on my back in the air) and he joins in swimming on his back. The manager is jumping for joy. It's not a race or a contest, just two famous swimmers. We are not using our arms, we are doing what looks like a dolphin, but on our backs.  

LJ Fixes some of the cross-posting privacy foo

lemmozine especially will want to look at this link.

Wishing a pleasant natal day to

braider, who is probably dancing up a storm somewhere, possibly in clogs.

Parallel Universe, Alternate History

When I was 24, I was the news editor of a successful weekly newspaper in Omak, WA, when I was invited to join the Peace Corps. Had I stayed, most likely I would have worked there my whole life, eventually buy the business, buy a nice house, and maybe take after the previous publisher and use my reputation and name recognition to run for office. By now I would have been retired or running for Governor, or worse.