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Monday, August 28, 2006
For Rose AloneLast night I dreamed I sat in a biology classroom filled with other adults. The teacher informed us that a computer program had deduced the identity of Superman down to three possible names. He handed out a hand-out. The three names were:
Gwen Zepeda
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Gwendolyn Dough
Was the third one supposed to be me, or was she Superman? I figured it meant me, but I knew I wasn't Superman. Not that I knew of. At first I kept quiet, didn't want to identify myself because Lex Luthor was sitting right next to me at our lab table.
Then I decided it would be safer to out myself. "Those are my names," I said after raising my hand, "But I'm not Superman. Unless it's Gwendolyn Dough. Unless that means me."
Lex Luthor turned to me, suddenly interested. He made probing small talk, asking how long I'd lived here in the suburbs.
All the while I wondered if Superman might actually be a woman. What if he actually was me, and I just didn't know it yet?
I started to feel regret, then, for having identified myself aloud.
Labels: dreams
2:01 PM #Comments:
I am (I am) I am Superman, and I can do anything ...[Yes, that's me in the corner, doing a lousy Mike Mills imitation.]
# posted by
NemesisVex : 8:55 PM
my sister in law (who is in a crappy marriage and is stuck in adelaide, australia) has a 3 year old girl who told her the other day: 'mommy, i never want to get married because then my husband will find out that i'm a rock star'.
i'm thinking that nobody told you you were superman...until now. it's gotta come out some time.
# posted by
lauralark : 7:33 PM
Hi Gwen,
Oh no your not superman!
And we've all know all along your Da Ta Da--Superwoman!!!
Janice~
# posted by
Janice : 1:36 AM
NemesisV: :)
Laura: Oh, my god. That is the awesomest thing I've ever heard of a child saying.
Janice: :)
I kind of wondered if the Dough thing was me thinking I'm too fat to be super.
# posted by
Gwen : 6:47 PM
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