Interrupted by Dad

Date: 3/11/2020

I was in an office setting, it was like a big conference room but without a table. People were sitting in chairs around the edges. We were there to talk about who we were, our work background and experience. There was someone there “judging” us, almost like a job interview but not really. I was super nervous bc I saw everyone else reading notes they had brought. A couple of people went before me but I didn’t pay attention bc I was thinking about what I wanted to say. When they called my name, I stood up and started talking. “Unlike most of the people in here today, I don’t have notes to go by. That doesn’t mean I’m not prepared, just that I’m gonna speak from the heart instead of listing things that don’t matter.” “I don’t know my GPA from college because I learned early on that my grades didn’t matter... what mattered was experience. So I focused on real-world experience more than my grades.” I was walking around the room as I talked (others had just stood in one place) and for some reason I had purple Mardi Grad beads around my neck (maybe purple means something?). As I was talking I heard someone in the room talking as well. I tried not to let it bother me but it kept going. I started looking around to see who it was and it was MY DAD. He was talking to someone as if I wasn’t even there (which wouldn’t be surprising for my Dad). I stopped talking and looked at him. Me: Dad, can you wait to tell your story? I’m kinda in t middle of something here. He got embarrassed but stopped talking. I continued but don’t know how I wrapped it up and eventually woke up.