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In my dream last night I was enrolled to start taking some sort of classes at the University of New Orleans.
In real life, I've never taken any classes at UNO. I've visited the campus for special events and to do research in the library/archives. It's a rather spread-out post-WWII campus with lots of 1960s and 1970s modern architecture.
In my dream the campus also had a large rectangular 4 story concrete building painted dark blue, that included dorms, classrooms, offices, cafeteria, auditorium, library and bookstore. So I was going to spend pretty much all my time in that building. The building seemed older than the rest of the campus, with elements similar to real-life high schools around New Orleans - early Art Deco auditorium in somewhat worn state like McMain before it was renovated, old hardwood staircases with ruts from wear of generations of feet like the old Ben Franklin school when it was in a repurposed early 19th century town hall.
I didn't know what I'd be studying nor why, just that I was enrolled and this was what I was going to be doing. I was headed into the auditorium for orientation. An acquaintance stopped me and told me "Did you hear about the explorers who went to the Sun? They got burned up, but the Sun cooled down because the heat was all transferred to them when they burned up!" We both knew this was absurd, but he thought it was a funny joke but I just thought it was stupid. I just said "Later - I got to go" and continued to find my seat.
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Tangential bonus: When I first saw an "UNO" game deck in the 1970s, I assumed it was a University of New Orleans card deck.
In real life, I've never taken any classes at UNO. I've visited the campus for special events and to do research in the library/archives. It's a rather spread-out post-WWII campus with lots of 1960s and 1970s modern architecture.
In my dream the campus also had a large rectangular 4 story concrete building painted dark blue, that included dorms, classrooms, offices, cafeteria, auditorium, library and bookstore. So I was going to spend pretty much all my time in that building. The building seemed older than the rest of the campus, with elements similar to real-life high schools around New Orleans - early Art Deco auditorium in somewhat worn state like McMain before it was renovated, old hardwood staircases with ruts from wear of generations of feet like the old Ben Franklin school when it was in a repurposed early 19th century town hall.
I didn't know what I'd be studying nor why, just that I was enrolled and this was what I was going to be doing. I was headed into the auditorium for orientation. An acquaintance stopped me and told me "Did you hear about the explorers who went to the Sun? They got burned up, but the Sun cooled down because the heat was all transferred to them when they burned up!" We both knew this was absurd, but he thought it was a funny joke but I just thought it was stupid. I just said "Later - I got to go" and continued to find my seat.
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Tangential bonus: When I first saw an "UNO" game deck in the 1970s, I assumed it was a University of New Orleans card deck.
