The One Where Chandler Has a Mohawk

Date: 4/11/2025

I’m in my house with the characters from Friends when I hear Chandler say something about his haircut. I come out of my room and see him crouched down so low that he’s practically laying on the floor and see that he has a weird, short mohawk. I immediately start laughing at him … I’m in an upstairs classroom in what’s supposed to be Renee’s school. Brianna Tringali shows up with paint supplies for some sort of project for us to do. Renee asks her where “Shelly” is, and I realize that she means Arielle. I vaguely wonder why she calls her Shelly, but remember that Arielle recently started referring to Renee as her “best friend” and that maybe they have weird nicknames for each other. At some point, students start filing out of the room and I see my friend Firat from Lyndhurst (who looks exactly like he did in the sixth grade). My mom says makes some kind of joke to him about being “his mom,” and then I say something very similar. He smiles at us and then comes over with Zain — a kid I knew in high school — who is, for some reason, wearing a toga. I hug him and am suddenly overcome with emotion and nostalgia. I say something about how we should really get together later … I’m in a large bedroom in what’s supposed to be my family’s new house. I look around the room and notice that all the decorations are very tacky — the sort of knickknacks you’d see in an old person’s house. I study each one until I finally come to a small sculpture of a rabbit attached to a small mirror with a bunch of fake glass grapes dangling off the base. I think about how my mom has apparently taken this with her through several moves and how she’s such a packrat (in real life, I’m much more of a packrat than she is). I end up in their (real) house and walk past my dad who is caulking and sealing a white entertainment center. I sit at the kitchen counter chatting with my mom about how many times we’ve moved. I count by saying, “South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, Spinnaker Bay, Winston Trails, and now the new house.” Somehow this makes sense to me.