Travel Lodge; Cat; Dream Journal Sketch; Phone Scam; Quiet Train

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Traveling and exotic places

A vacation lodge with european or touristy families around. I'm there with my southeast asian boyfriend. I rough up his hair and he looks at me bemused and a little annoyed. There's a skinny lost cat there. I pick it up and it clings to me piteously. Its claws dig into my sweater and skin.

Trying to read messages on my cell phone. I know they're coming from scammers.

I look in my dream journal. There's a very accurate pencil sketch of a dream I've had where I'm an old woman, in the colonial past, doing some work. I'm older but pretty and I'm wearing my round glasses.

On the subway platform. Someone is playing a familiar but annoying song. Billy Joel? Grateful Dead? I see old shopping bags around and I know I left them behind. I look inside and see a bunch of grapefruits. I think to myself, I love grapefruits! Why would I leave them behind? But the train pulls up, and although it's not my normal train I realize it's a special that's going to whisk me back to Greenpoint. At the last minute the doors open again to let an old lady on and I leap on too. The woman in front of me turns around and asks if I find it noisy. I say yes, and offer my ear plugs. I'm surprised and a little annoyed when she takes me up on the offer. I rummage in my linen bag and finally find them. As I'm handing them over, a piece of plastic sticks to one and I gently peel it off. The old lady looks disgusted and hands them back. I'm annoyed but gratified to have thwarted her. She wipes her hand on one of my grapefruits.