High School Reunion (Cosmic Addition?)

Date: 4/4/2022

I was at a high school reunion. It was my old high school - not the last one - the one I spent the most years at, the one where I knew people. It was interesting to navigate. Big. The dorm situation was a hell. This big labrinth of dorms that had to be kept in order by computer - a com system in the wall. You logged in, then got in your dorm, could even find it, etc. I was with some guy who'd been my friend. I think he may have still been there. I don't know, we tooled around for a while. I actually liked the crowds here. I kept recognizing people. They danced in synchronization once. I recognized a girl with curly auburn hair. There was a lanyard that I kept attached to my hair, my head, bit I felt it was silly. I considered a ribbon. I needed something there though. I played a game where we mirrored our immediate placing and I moved stacks of papers and books with my feet. After the reunion I ran into a teacher - a guy who was familiar. I had forgotten he was here. Either he was there just as I was leaving high school, or he began working there years after I left. I could barely remember all this stuff prior to getting to the reunion, but I did remember as people remembered me. Anyway he was your typical high school heartthrob teacher. Him recognizing me, and showing attention, was nice. After the reunion was over I didn't want to go home. I decided to find him, he was the one person I had a lingering unfinished business with. It wasn't much, but it was something. And I was procrastinating. So I get to the dorms. They are more massive then I thought. Did you know they are in space? A couple of constellations of stars - each one a dorm room- and they're both shaped like boots. I went to the booth that I'd been in before. I tried to find him. Everyone was really helpful til they realized I wasn't a student there. Then they were still helpful but the computer needed mW to be enrolled to find him. I kept looking. Found some old acquaintances, saw a woman I knew getting some man if hers off in some benches, like airport seats. They dotted along the wall. She was homeless, but hung around college, even though she wasn't enrolled. I sighed, because I felt at loose ends. I didn't want to be like her, homeless and aimless, but I really didn't want to go home. I hated the city now. I dreaded having to return. A few friends - well prior acquaintances, I hadn't been popular in school, and everyone treated me like it, like oh, there you are. Hey - who were enrolled tried calling him. I think they got him, and then the call failed or it wasn't him. Anyway I never found him. I had to explain why I was looking for him. And when I had attended college. and that he'd come to work here after I'd left high school. And that I'd been to college and beauty school and now I was a writer. And that I now lived in Chesapeake Bay, and I had moved north. And no, I didn't bring bed bugs with me, I was clean. Apparently there was a crazy fear - in the neighboring area - like neighbouring planets because this was a space station high school -because they were about to breed and mutate with a poisonous flower - a white flower - and begin to kill people. Um, alien bed bugs? Maybe? Last part of dreamtime I was trying to fob off someone I didn't want to give my real phone number too. I gave him a real app number, maybe for a job interview, but it didn't work. I apologized and said I'd get him a new number, but he got my real number instead. I felt dread.