{"id":28,"date":"2005-07-24T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T00:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/24\/almost-saw-9-am\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:56:06","slug":"almost-saw-9-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/24\/almost-saw-9-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Saw 9 am."},"content":{"rendered":"

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So it turns out that people do<\/strong> read this. DJ pointed out that Patrick Swayze is alive and well, despite that terrible fire that took his life last October. This came as a tremendous shock to me, as I did not previously know that the internet extends to the far-reaches of Vacationland, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

While I missed 9am again this morning, it wasn’t by much. Teymour and I stayed up discussing math, music, and tequila until the early hour of five this morning. I came back and some how managed to amuse myself until 8am.<\/p>\n

Then the fun started. I had two long dreams while I slept. The first placed me on the starship Enterprise, Next Generation-style. The Enterpirse, along with several other ships in the fleet, was transporting small, grotesque garden statue to Earth. However, I intercepted a message cluing me in to the sinister nature of the lawn ornaments. For they were not statues at all but the first offensive of a wave of attacks by alien creatures, who, in our tongue, called themselves Trojans. Once safely landed and sold to humans, the heat of the sun would awaken the Trojans from their suspended-state sleep. Then they would shoot a horrible spear-like string \ufffd la Scorpion from Mortal Combat from a disc on their forehead into the brain of a human. Then the victim would become a sort of Trojan zombie. I imagine that the human host would either become a Trojan or host a Trojan baby. The details are not clear in my memory. Anyway, anyway! I alerted Commander Ryker or whatever his name is. And Diana Troy did a flip off a balcony and we were on Earth and things moved very quickly. The Trojans attacked Boston at night, perhaps at Quincy Market or the North End. I investigated the seen, but they had completely overwhelmed the population. So I tried to get back to the ship, but this man kept on following me. I told him to go back and leave the city, but it was too late. A Trojan got him. I woke up before I got back to the ship. Professor Georgi took the place of Captain Picard. So I knew it probably was a dream.<\/p>\n

The second was even more complicated. Suffice it to say, democrat lobbyists were trying to shut down a corporation, which appeared evil but was not, and I got to work with the CEO who was a Monty Burns-like character. Also, there were a lot of spy acrobatics and maybe floor plans of Leverett towers and some 3D geospatial rendering. One of the lawyers threatened my life and stole an iPod which didn’t belong to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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