I was not feeling well last night and tossed and turned and generally couldn't breathe for much of the night. But, at some point I had a very vivid dream in which I was fired from my job for referring to one of our sponsors as an asshole in an email message...a message that was perhaps copied to that person. My boss didn't really want to fire me but he didn't really have much of a choice. I'm not very clear on the specifics. Vivid as the dream was, the details are a bit hazy now. At any rate, I wasn't really too concerned about it in my dream. "Oh well," my thinking seemed to go, "I'm sick and tired of that job anyway."
When it was time to get up this morning, I still felt awful so got up and sent a note to my bosses with a CC to Esther saying I'd be in late. I went back to bed and then thought something along the lines of: "Wait. I didn't have to send them a message. They fired me." And, then I started wondering if I'd been fired from all of my job...or just part of it. I'm paid out of three different pots of money by three different professors. Did they all fire me? And, then I drifted off. A bit later, I came out of my haze long enough to realize that I had not been fired at all. And, I eventually went in to work. Where, it would seem, I did not send any inflammatory email messages to anyone. Sigh...
And, just to be clear: I would never send an email message like that out. I might think something like that about someone (I don't think I ever have thought that about a sponsor but it could happen). But I'd never actually articulate it to anyone else at work via email. I do like how la-dee-da I was about the whole situation in my dream. Heh.
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