Job Interviews, Television, and Being Conned

Afternoon Nap

I am in the process of interviewing for a job. Between interviews, I mess around online - playing games, listening to words being pronounced, looking up information on minor interests, reading years-old forum threads - that sort of thing.

The last interview is a group interview in a sort of a classroom setting with somewhere between five and ten people there. It's going to last several hours so we have a couple breaks. During one break I wander into the small office where the previous interviews had taken place. I had my last interview either the day before or earlier that day and I notice that I had set down my house key and a quarter on a table and left them there. So I pick them up and put them in my pocket.

After I rejoin the other interviewees the conversation turns to the topic of some newish movie or television program. Another girl says that this show is a remake. I listen more closely to the conversation and realize that the plot of this show sounds very similar to an episode of 21 Jump Street (80s crime show), so I join the other girl in saying that it must be a remake. The boy we are talking to most refuses to believe it, and as he goes into detail I realize that there are some very telling differences. I eventually figure that the show he is talking about is actually a parody of the remake.

I remember that I had previously made arrangements through email to rent an apartment somewhere far away from here. Because this job is nearby, I do not need the apartment so I try to back out of the lease. But when I look through my emails, I realize that when I had clicked a link in one of the emails from the apartment managers, they had automatically deducted $30 from my bank account, even though we had agreed that I would not be paying them anything until I moved in. We realize that email was actually part of a phishing scam and not from the real apartment managers. I had received one other email claiming to be from the managers and we try to cancel my rental contract and figure out whether the other email had come from the real management and if more of my money had been stolen, and if so, we were going to try to get it back. Somehow we know that this second email would have taken more money - at least a couple hundred dollars - and that there was at least a chance we could get that money back if it had been stolen, but the scam from the first email would be impossible to fix.

Time Crime, Going on the Lam, and Hiding Out

I am time travelling with some youngish man who is obviously important to me, though I don't know in what manner. Then we learn that by travelling to the future, we have upset the balance of the universe and he will die if we don't set everything right. So we and another couple in the same situation get together and attempt to set everything back how it should be, except bringing back an invention that the guy I'm traveling with had come up with while in the future. Because we have a limited time to get back, the other couple attempts to leave without us, but we manage to stop them until we are ready.

Then I'm back home, where I learn that my dad and I are both being pursued by time police. I think Dad gets away somewhere, because he doesn't seem to be present after a few minutes, but I'm not sure. Then I find out that the time police are about to come to get me (from Grandma's house, where we seem to be living in the basement). My mom wants to have one last family gathering, but while she is getting Grandma, I sneak out of the house because I know that we don't have time for that and this way, my family won't know where I'm going and so will have nothing to hide.

As I'm running off, I try to think of somebody I know well enough to crash with for a while but who nobody would think I would stay with. I come up with the Johnson family. So I go to their house and ask if I can stay with them for a while. They give their permission. I live in their basement, along with their daughter Lisa and her son Josh. For some reason, Lisa's husband is not with them.

I stay for several days, just hanging out in the basement. At one point I am included in a family dinner at which their son Nick talks about Mary, a friend of mine who he liked in high school. I feel like I have a big secret just knowing Mary and keep waiting to be given an opportunity to share what I know about her and her feelings about Nick.

Around this time, it occurs to somebody that I might like to shower and get some clean clothes after wearing the same thing for days at a time.

The Johnsons' grandparents are now also living in the basement. The grandmother seems to really dislike me for some reason. Because I do not have a bed of my own, I nap on both of the grandparents' beds. Unfortunately, I bleed on the sheets. I try to rub it off. For some reason, after seeing me sleep on the grandfather's bed, the grandmother starts to like me a little.

Bus Trip and Harry Potter

I am married to Ted Banks, but we are estranged.

Max and I are going on a trip together. At the ticket counter in the airport, I discover that Ted's legal last name is  not actually Banks. His parents divorced and his father was not a presence in his life, so Ted socially goes by his mother's last name, Banks. His legal last name is something else that seems to have started with an O. This means that my last name is not Banks, as I had believed it to be, but that O name. But we are able to work things out without any problem.

Even though we are at an airport, our trip is on one of those fancy tour buses. I think Ted is actually on the bus with us, but we never interact with him. Max is a row or two behind me and Ted is behind him - maybe at the very back.

At some point during the trip, we get off at a supermarket. While there, I turn into an actress playing Hermione Granger, Max and Ted disappear from my consciousness, and the purpose of the trip has to do with our filming schedule and some sort of publicity tour. Before we get back on the bus, I use the bat bogey hex on somebody evil who is bothering me - apparently I am not just an actress playing Hermione, I am Hermione.

We get a school that is part of our publicity tour and Harry, Ron and I are taken inside to our dressing rooms. The school official in charge of the tour tries to take advantage of me or abuse me in some way. Now my consciousness transfers to either Harry or Ron, who casts Sectumsempra on the official. We get back on the bus and I rotate through being Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Farmville Romance

We all live inside a facebook farming game like Farmville.

I used to date Tony, but we have broken up. I still like him, though. We are both lying down somewhere, me in front of him, and he cuddles up to me and reaches for my hand. We get back together.

To help out and to show how helpful I can be and what a good worker I am, I go to Tony's farm and pick some plants of his that are ready to harvest so that they won't wither on the vines. Tony isn't as pleased as I expected him to be, having wanted to do his own work. And I later find out that if I had waited just a little bit longer before picking them, he would have gotten extra bonuses. I don't think Tony realizes this and I don't tell him.

While cuddling again later on, I notice that Tony's hands are very cracked and dry. When we pull apart a bit, Tony mentions that my arms look like they could use some attention. I look down and notice that they are scratched up a bit from the contact with Tony's arms. I say that I'll put some lotion on them later and point out to Tony the dryness of his own hands and arms.

At some point, we get married. There is never an actual wedding or even a proposal; in one scene we aren't married and in the next we are.

My brother and his wife own the farm next to ours. We feel free to take produce from each other's farms as we wish. One day, I decide to pick apples from their tree. The first one I pick doesn't seem very ripe, so Tony encourages me to go to their grocery store to find out if the apples really are ripe. So I go. While there, I start to load up on other produce there until I realize that I have to actually pay for it and everything is too expensive for me. I also then realize that I stole the apple from their tree and will have to pay for it if I get caught. I try to hide the apple so that nobody will find out, but then I notice that the apple is diseased and should be thrown away. As I am going to throw it away, I see that the apple isn't really diseased - it is alive. It's some sort of apple monster.

Time skips ahead and we are at a family party in a house that is set up a lot like my grandma's house. I am downstairs looking for something. Tony joins me. Nobody else knows where we are so somebody is sent to look for us.

Around this time I realize that I am pregnant.

We are found and brought upstairs to the party. I for some reason need to pretend that I am drunk. Our servant, who we have been trying to get to join the family for years, finally does so. He sits down at a place set for him next to me. Everybody is glad he finally joined us, but the real reason he sat there was to put some distance between me and Tony, who he does not approve of. There are now two or three people between us, including the servant. I am aware of his intentions but do not let them bother me because Tony and I are already married and I am pregnant with Tony's child.