I wonder if anyone I know will be at breakfast...

I also wonder:

-if it is 5 44 AM here in NW Iowa, and, it being mid/late November, it tends to get dark right around 5 30 PM... what time the sunrise will be

-how effin' cold it will be

-whether my roommate worries on mornings like these that he wakes up without me sprawled on the couch (I sleep on the couch or the hammock, more the couch lately because of the late nights and the cold)

-if I can stay awake... today.

I think I'd be okay with eating alone... I might prefer it? Especially for breakfast, but I think the best situation would be to have breakfast with someone terrific but to eat and sit in silence (mostly).

OK. I'm in the process of pulling an all-nighter but I'm going to share some thoughts about dreams. They've always been significantly fascinating to me-both because they are so elusive in recollection, form and study and because they are, at the same time, so vivid and powerful - as if even the most cliche plots and worst actors could draw your heart in... every night. I have considered before that they may very well be a string of sub-conscious repressed thoughts that get to play once your guard is let down. Thank you Freud and those influenced by Freud. However... could it be perhaps that in addition to/contrary to that theory, that though we don't always realize or acknowledge our dreams, that they play a key role to our behavior and reality once we wake up? Are we at our most emotionally and psychologically vulnerable when we are in REM? Maybe God (and I wouldn't put it past him/her) actually is sovereign over every aspect of our being. I'm thinking of the movie Signs here and the idea that there is no coincidence, no randomosity... that every roll of the dice, every hair that falls from our heards... and every sequence of events that befall us in our sleep is a significant... speck, at least, of our existence.
Note: I really hate the movie The Butterfly Effect, but I suppose it has some domain in this brooding vomit.
Psychology really does interest me... do I obtain the capacity to explore it? Is my mental disposition worthy of such a tedious and significant study?

"Significant study? Compared to what, Alvin? Compared to what?"

Well, that's a whole different post isn't it?

Which reminds me... Piper/Joel/PaulK, get moving on that DordtTalk alternative, will you?

One last question in humility... How do you go about _______ __ ____ ____ ____________?