For those of you who recall...

I went through a phase during my UW college years, a phase where I was quite obsessed with Dave Matthews, to the point where I would have dreams with him in them. First, I would dream I was wandering around casually in Seattle (sometimes with one of my dormmates who was equally obsessed) and then all of a sudden there he would be and we would strike up conversation and he would give me clues as to where he lived. (That's really all I wanted, was to know where his house was.) Eventually the dreams turned into marriage proposals and his angry wife coming after me. Then the dreams disappeared altogether.

Well, last night he made a reappearance--as the owner of a cafe (in the dream it was the Lighthouse, but it really wasn't, it was some cafe attached to an Albertsons). I strolled on in and mentioned how his cookies could use an upgrade, to which he responded that he'd heard I could help out with that. So right then and there, I started whipping up a batch of cookies in the cafe! He didn't have all the ingredients I needed for a batch of snickerdoodles, so I went off in search of cinnamon but got distracted and never finished the cookies. I went back to the cafe later with the ingredients only to find that he'd baked the unfinished dough! It was a mess and I thought my cookie reputation was ruined, so I started in on some old-fashioned classics, the choco chip. But then I awoke to find that I was not baking in Dave's cafe and my cookie reputation remained in tact.

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