{"id":16732,"date":"2008-12-19T07:43:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:53:18","slug":"dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/19\/dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream job"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dreamt this morning that I was working with the entire SCIFI.COM<\/a> staff out of a storefront office in a strip mall. I knew this because I could make out the crowded parking lot through the front windows. My real-life boss was there, as were my other real-life coworkers. Only we weren’t engaged in our real-life job of putting together a Web site, but instead were running a literary agency.<\/p>\n

At no point were we ever actually reading manuscripts as part of this agency, however. Instead, we were opening packages arriving from writers—and, strangely, from other literary agencies—and inserting them into a large machine which resembled an old-fashioned clunky photocopier. The machine would then pass judgment and spit out an answer.<\/p>\n

After doing this for awhile, I found myself wandering the halls of what seemed like a fancy hotel—plush carpeting, highly polished doors outside each room, lots of flower arrangements. On each door, instead of a room number, there was a plaque with the name of a literary agency or publishing company, as if when you checked in it became public knowledge in which room you stayed. <\/p>\n

As I wandered the hall looking for my room, I was wearing nothing but a towel (as opposed to the first half of the dream, in which I was fully clothed), but unlike those anxiety dreams in which you’re in school taking a test in your underwear, I didn’t care. I was calm and serene. There seemed to be nothing unusual about it. I’d pass people I knew in the hall—Ginjer Buchanan, for example—and say hello to them and chat briefly as if I did this all the time. So there was no “Where the Hell are my pants?” about this dream.<\/p>\n

Then, as if on cue, every door on the floor opened and everybody poured out into the hallway. Fire drill? Convention programming about to begin? TIme for lunch? I have no idea why the mass room exodus. And once more, there was no anxiety about being in the midst of this crowd in my just-stepped-from-the-shower state. (I guess I have no shame.) I merely continued looking for my room, nodding to those I knew, until I woke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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