Emergency - please send vibes!

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

Oh, Mike, I hope you were able to reconstruct your sermon before 
having to speak it. When I saw a Reply from lupinesque, I thought she 
might be offering to e-mail her sermon to you, which would probably 
be a funny (funny ha-ha) combination.

Amy z wrote:

> I'd probably rather break a leg than have to stand up in front of a 
> crowd to say something wise sans notes.
> Amy Z's had all too many nightmares about just that happening

I can't remember if I've ever had the supposedly extremely common 
nightmare about arriving in class to take a Final Exam and suddenly 
realizing that one has not studied... has not attended the class all 
term... doesn't even know what it is a class IN! I did read an 
anecdote from a professor reporting that after 25 years of teaching, 
during which he kept having that nightmare, he had just 'graduated' 
to having a new nightmare: arriving in class to stand at the lectern 
and suddenly realize that he had no lecture notes, no lesson plan, 
didn't even know what subject he was supposed to be teaching! He 
concluded that it had taken his unconscious mind 25 years to learn 
that his daily circumstances had changed.

btw I might not be in chat at all today, certainly I don't be in chat 
for long, because I have to go to a birthday party this afternoon 
(PST).