sleeping dreams

I dreamed that threemeninaboat decided she wanted to be a weather forecaster on TV so we went off to weather forecaster school and they were all "we will teach you meteorology later, but first weather forecasters are all weirdos so you have to develop a schtick and work on that, so one of you is going to be the weather forecaster who wears stilts and then has to hunch over to fit in the frame of the camera, and one of you is going to be the weather forecaster who talks like Emo Phillips all the time" and threemeninaboat is immediately "I get the stilts" and I'm all "but I don't waaaaaaanna talk like Emo Phillips all the time" and the lady says "not bad, but higher pitched." Of course.
So I am also taking engineering classes and for some reason we have to walk from home to campus so I get this stack of papers back that I'm looking through to see how I did on the homework, and it is seriously 20 cm thick, of handwritten pages, just from last week, and I did just better than failing, and whoever the grader was, the person was trying to be encouraging by writing little notes in the margins: "you will be the unquestioned envy of your Lionel train club after taking all these classes!" and I'm all "bud I don't waaaanna be just some guy who can set up model trains: I want to be a test engineer!" so I'm trying to go through all these papers, while we're walking to school, and the road along which we're walking gets super narrow so the cars are RIGHT THERE and it's very uncomfortable, so we try to walk in the weeds, which are all yucca, meaning it's this labryinthine path that involves stopping and going back when the yucca are too dense to go through. Off to one side there's someone's farm and there's a halfway okay path going the direction we're going so I go down there and start walking along that. Because nothing is easy in dreams, pretty soon that gets all yucca-y but there is a long line of picnic benches, so I can hop from one to the next and do okay, and then instead of park benches someone has been doing container gardening on the cheap by parking lots of kids' wagons full of dirt side by side and growing stuff in there, but it's winter so there's nothing growing in them, so I start hopping from wagon to wagon. About six in I look down and see the dirt has a bunch of big holes in it, and I see a leafcutter bee fly out of it, and I'm all "bees! bees!" and jump off into the weeds. The guy behind me is all "I don't see any bees" and starts kicking around in the dirt, and of course, all the bees come out, and then we all have to run because we're being swarmed by bees.