The stress dream returns

I had a couple of dreams last night.

A few months ago, I discovered what I had only guessed at for years. The dreams I've had about being back at school are stress related. I know that when I have them, it is always during a time of my life when I'm going through stress or doubting myself. So when someone told me they are typical stress dreams, I wasn't surprised.

Here's the one I had last night.

I was back in school and I had one particular class where the professor was psycho about attendance. If you missed one day, she's flunk you. I had decided to return to counseling and for some reason I can't figure out, I scheduled my appointment during this class. I guess this would also be my last appointment with her too.

I called and rescheduled and all was fine. But I also had a paper due in this class that I hadn't written and I didn't realize this until the day of class. No idea how that turned out, but next thing I know it's time for my appointment.

And I had scheduled this appointment during another class. I was also trying to figure out if I could still turn in my paper even though it was late. I guess I wrote it and had it done, but late.

I couldn't decide what to do about the paper, so I went with my grandmother (I think) to ShopKo. I had time before my appointment and I was looking for something.

I got there and went to the toy department where, I guess, the product was. Can't remember what I was looking for. They had the toy department blocked with these little kids dressed as little soldiers. A worker was at both ends of the row (I guess there's just one row for toys in my dream) and it looked like they were doing inventory.

I went to the customer service desk and said I wanted to file a complaint. I said that they had the row blocked. The woman said, "Oh, they close the toy department on Tuesdays. Didn't you see the sign?" I said I hadn't and she replied, "I'm surprised you didn't. It's right outside the store." I complained that this was ridiculous because apparently it was close to Christmastime and to have the toy department closed was like having the entire store closed.

I went back to shopping at another part of the store and counted off how many times ShopKo has screwed me over. Then ran into a guy in the watch department who was mentioning he was going to go look for something related to watches/kids in the toy department. I told him not to bother and that if it wasn't there, he wouldn't find it.

Then I realized I was 15 minutes late to my counseling appointment and I had scheduled this appointment during another class which I would be missing completely. I ran to try and catch my appointment. Never knew if I did or not.