Let Dreamboat Sink

Hey Lisa!
So yesterday night I had the craziest dream! I want to know if you know what this means. My dreams are generally a little crazy anyhow, but this one took me by surprise.

A little back story.


I am a student at CNU and last year was my first year, so naturally I joined a bunch of clubs without realizing that I was spreading myself to thin. I ended up taking on one really time-consuming club that I didn't enjoy. I also don't feel like I'm really bonding with anyone and it seems like they wouldn't even miss me if I left. So, like a professional, I wrote a formal letter of resignation, to get out of it. Well, today I was SUPPOSED to hand in my letter to the president but I didn't because of my dream.

The club is the Campus Activities Board and there are 8 other people on my committee. One of them is David. He is a pretty nice guy and very attractive. Last night I had a dream about him. I dreamed that I was giving a presentation with this huge portable dry erase board and in the middle of it David stood up and then asked me if he could speak to me personally. He took me behind the dry erase board, asked me not to leave CAB, and kissed me.... but he never closed his mouth. When I backed away from the very slobbery, unexpected smooch he had one of those dental things in his mouth (the ones that keep your mouth open). What does this mean? Should I still had in in my letter or is this a sign that I shouldn't quit CAB?

Please help,
- Confused Dreamer

Dear Confused Dreamer,
Didn't your mother ever teach you about the dangers of wandering behind dry eraser boards—even in dreams? No? Well, let this be a lesson to you. Nothing good can ever come of it. But it happened, so let's move on.


First off, this club does not sound like fun. Campus Activities Board. Board? It might as well read Campus Activities Bored. I'm bored just looking it. An activities club should be called something like the Campus Activities Party (CAP), or the Activities Coffee Klatch (ACK!) Now that would be fun. So if, in the end, you decide to stay, the first thing you should do is rename this club.


But the real question comes to this:  Do you stay in a club you don't enjoy, and where you don't feel needed, and one which you were ready to leave?—all based on a dream kiss (if it can really be defined as a kiss at all) by an attractive boy named, David. The easy answer is, "No way!" But when I was your age, that answer might have caused anguish. I mean what girl hasn't done something absurd on behalf of an attractive guy?  Even after she's married him.  But that's another blog.

Nice Seque, Mom.  Maddie here.

Listen, Dreamer.

I know it's tempting to settle on the first hypothetical whirl behind the dry-erase board that comes your way, but you have gotta play the game, girl.

This guy is a nerd with orthodontic equipment in tow. Not saying that I don't love me some nerdy guys, (I bought Aaron Darth Vader's TIE fighter Lego set for his birthday a couple weeks ago...), but the fact is that you can't make it too easy for him.


Quit the boring club.
Make him miss you.


Before you quit, get a brief rundown of his class schedule so that you can stalk him juuuuuust enough so that you come into weekly "accidental" contact: "Oh, this is the men's locker room?"


Promise yourself that you'll do something really interesting during the time that you used to spend at the club so that when he eventually asks: "Hey, why'd you leave the club?" You can say: "Oh, I just wanted more time to work on my independent film chronicling the rise and fall of Blockbuster...ironic, eh? I'm just like this, I don't know why."

Leaving gives you the mysterious air of having something better to do, and that will only make you more intriguing. So even if he never begs you to stay, you can rest happy knowing that whenever he does happen to think of you, he does so with a certain element of wistfulness that leaves him faintly curious.


Maddie Out.

Lisa here.  Trying not to over-think the fact that Maddie and Aaron met in college. . .

Back to you, Dreamer, I'm not a professional (nor amateur) dream interpreter, but that doesn't necessarily mean I shouldn't give it a shot. What if his stopping you in the middle of your presentation meant you should stop hesitating in making this decision? What if the portable nature of the white board signified the transience of life? What if his open mouth represented his vast heart? What if the slobber meant there was a need of water to quench his feelings? If only I knew the color of the dry erase markers.

As it is, I'm pretty sure this dream means that David is wide open to you leaving the club immediately to join the synchronized swim team, and don't forget to wear a mouth guard.
 
So in the final analysis, Maddie and I agree--leave the club.  If you and David are meant to be, it will be.  Club or no club.  Don't suffer.  And kudos on the Letter of Resignation—both professional and mature.
 

 That's it, Readers.  Any dream interpreters out there?  Any advice you'd like to impart?  Not to me or Maddie, but to Dreamer--just to clarify.

XOXO,
Maddie