Ridiculous Dream

So, I just had a REALLY bizarre dream.

I went to an audition for the Bluecoats, and my mom went with me. The entire audition takes place in this big house, and the beginning stuff took place in one room, and then we had a bathroom break before we started working on flag routines. So I obviously go to the bathroom, but for some reason I decide to change clothes. So on my way back, I see my mom and this staff person putting together some beds, so I give her my other clothes and go back into the room, but there's no one there. So I run around the entire house--which for some reason there isn't a hallway to where the bathroom was, so I have to crawl through this little space to get back there. So after like half an hour, I find these little kids spinning flags, and I think the stuff is SUPER easy, but I join anyway. And then I realize they had split up into two groups, beginners and people actually auditioning, and I had only found the beginners. So I go up to the instructor, and when she turns around, it's Dani (my roommate's girlfriend) and I ask if there's another group, and she says "Ryan... I've never done color guard before in my life. Do you really think I'm qualified to run a drum corps audition?" So she tells me that the real audition is at a place called Mr. Boneyard's Wasteland.

Yes, I'm serious. I told you this was ridiculous.

So I go outside and try to follow the directions Dani gave me, but I'm completely lost. And the building is surrounded by this MASSIVE playground, and the sabres are having rehearsal in the middle of the swingsets and the rifles are having rehearsal in the middle of the big stuff. So I'm running around trying to find Mr. Boneyard's Wasteland when these little kids ask if I need help. And this little girl tells me that I'm looking for Mr. Boneyard's Shadow Wasteland, and she points to this massive barn that looked like it had almost burned down multiple times. And I can see flags spinning in there, and it looks like difficult stuff, so I know I'm in the right place. But this little girl continues to tell me that Mr. Boneyard is this magical orc who protects the Shadlow Wasteland, so I have to be really careful.

Whatever.

So I look back over there, and there's this massive effing dragon flying around the barn. I think I'm seeing things, but I run over there, and as I get closer, the dragon becomes more and more real. So then it starts talking to me, and it obviously likes me because it thinks I've "come to play" (not the "I'm going to eat you" come to play, he really wanted to play) so to get around him, I have to do some slick manuevering around big pieces of wood and siding and piles of dirt. After a few minutes, I look over and see one of the staff members that was at the audition last fall, and I think about saying something, but then I have to think twice because I'm obviously not going to make the audition anyway.

I say something anyway, but the guy won't let me talk, and then he gets Rick, the color guard caption head for the Bluecoats, who gives me a five minute lecture about how if I want to be in the corps, I need to accept responsibility for where the rehearsal is. And then he ends with, "All I can say is that if you know you have homework, you have to make sure you do it before--"

And then I woke up.

And I'm pretty sure the whole thing started at a Boonville football game, but I'm not really sure about the details, so I left them out, because really the only part I knew I needed to share was Mr. Boneyard's Shadow Wasteland. That was ridiculous.

So anyway, I'm not sure what that dream meant--if anything--but if I do go to another drum corps audition, I'm NOT going to the bathroom. Period.

(Side note: I did run to the bathroom on a five-minute break last year at the Bluecoats audition and it took me so long to find it that I was like a minute late for the beginning of the next flag block, and I had to run around the whole block because my spot was in the opposite corner. So that's where that came from...)