Alba's The Happening review must've stuck in my brain harder than I anticipated, because I've never even SEEN the movie and last night/this morning I had a really weird nightmare about trees killing people and the panic that ensued.

At first everyone thought it was all trees, but later it was discovered that it was just a particular grove of these younger, almost alien-looking trees. Only they didn't kill people with falling off buildings or making you forget to get in the van when Jesus Christ it was a lion. No, they made all these plants start sprouting from your body and limbs, like...bean sprouts and shrubs and clover. You could pull out the growing plants, but in doing so you had to pull out this long tube-like root that made it like pulling out a superlong tapeworm, and it left these visible holes in your skin. D: The tube roots grew really fast and that was was killed people. So every time I went near those trees for plot purposes I would suddenly get clover and sprouts growing out of my arms so I had to pull them all out and when I woke up I still felt the heeble-jeeblies of tuby things under my skin and asjdflkfjalkjfa90e

In my adventures I met some weird hippie girl who claimed that we just needed to talk to the trees and explain things and then they would be our friends and stop killing everyone. I became firmly convinced that this was true and started trying to talk to the trees myself with hippie girl's help, except I can't remember the trees ever talking back. Then again, for some reason the only trees we met were these haggard and dry dead ones; we didn't try chatting it up with the alien-looking trees.

Also, this seemed to be taking place in the future as the houses I was running around in looked modeled after iPods (iHouse?) and had these elaborate alarm systems, but at the same time the clover-sprouting panic was causing society to regress and a sign of this was some kind of crude Victorian slapstick play being put on. Then it was discovered, after using some weird technology to force this molting gray bird to talk (its beak was all twisted and it was actually really gross) that actually all of this was being caused by a fight between the gray birds and bats, who were using the alien trees to kill people so that they could have first pick of the corpses. This culminated in a kind of wasp's nest full of bats and gray birds suddenly bursting and all these bats came pouring out on top of a crowd of already-panicked people. D8

And then my alarm went off!


Yeeeeeah. I spent about EIGHT hours yesterday just UVing that frigging wolf spider, much of it was redoing stuff over again because programs would crap out on me or something else would go wrong. No wonder I had nightmares last night. X( But at least that is DONE.

All of our classes are canceled today, but I'm going to go into school anyway and work because this term already has so much work that I need to use the free labs while I can. Maybe I'll come on Meebo in the evening for company...I hope all the United Statians have a really fun and safe Fourth today; enjoy your local fireworks!

Drawing: I need to draw an interior setup for Digital Sets.

Writing: The same