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For the CTYers and mathgeeks out there. (Whaddup homies!) I was really hoping for longer than a single verse. (As seen on math_jokes.)

I filled the blue-green mini-van and started closing the doors - the right side I accidentally closed the wrong door first (like in a Honda Element) so I had to reclose them. The gas pedal had a loop over it so my foot wouldn't slide off. I was driving on the sidewalk when I realized that there was something wrong with the gas, and I detoured to the street. I was looking for the turn for the building's parking lot when I saw some CTY people having dinner at a restaurant, so I joined them. The group included tacotortoise and tikva (who isn't a CTYer, as far as I know). We were discussing the song we were going to sing for graduation, and they were emphasizing some goofy traditions I didn't understand. I realized I had forgotten my camera, and left to get it. It involved a lot of flying, but I was flying slow. Part of the sidewalk was covered in potted cactus, and I was worried I'd lose my lift so I detoured through a store selling handmade shirts and necklaces. The woman running it thought I was following the woman leaving. More cacti out back so I had to detour back to the main sidewalk.

**end dream**
There were snippets of The Carnival before I got in the van, but I can't recall them. The store and behind it was kinda like The Bazaar.

When you push your kids too hard, things like this can happen. I wonder why the defense didn't file a counter-claim of emotional and psychological abuse against the surving parent.

Today I was driving back from Amherst and not too far along the way I realized that the Irish ballad I was listening to had lyrics including "drunkenly struggling to undo his fly," and "the urinal cake stared at old Eddie Praeger, or maybe it would have if it had had eyes." I immediately put it on repeat for the duration of my drive home (some 1:10 typically) so that I could learn the lyrics, and next will work on the chords. Then I remembered that my plans for this (oh right, this, not next) summer did not include CTY. But then again, there is nothing preventing me from crashing Crabfest 2! *grin*

It wasn't until I got home that I looked up the artist - Paul and Storm, the successors to Da Vinci's Notebook. The Paul and Storm webpage includes a sample of The Ballad of Eddie Praeger, and amazingly iTunes actually sells them.