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Sorry for slapping on another potentially groan-inducing pun as a blog entry title, but cut me some slack folks.  I just woke up from another strange dream with another random celebrity.  This time I was taking some sort of class on "How To Teach A Class", and it was being taught by none other than Gene Wilder.  I think the point of the class was how to teach in an entertaining way, and the way he illustrated his offbeat teaching skills was by teaching us how to get a raccoon off of a roof.  I recall at one point he did something funny where he was saying something while writing on a chalkboard, but he wasn’t looking at the board and kind of just drew knowingly illegible squiggles behind his back.  That’s all I really remember about the class, other than the fact that I found it enjoyable overall.  Then the next day in this dream, I was over at my parents’ house when I received an an email with the audio recording of the class attached.  I listened to it as I went outside, only to find - surprise surprise - a raccoon on the roof of my parents’ carport.  So I went into the yard and started doing whatever it was that was supposed to get it off the roof.  And it worked.  The raccoon jumped down off the roof, and started running towards me.  I quickly remembered these creatures are nocturnal and that something must be very wrong if it’s out in broad daylight.  But it was too late.  The Background Music of Imminent Danger - you know, like, a shreiking atonal string note and a pounding bass drum - started to swell, much as it does on Lost when something like this happens.  My fear had me paralyzed as my life flashed before my eyes.  And just as this probably rabid raccoon sped towards me, invaded my personal space and kind of leapt at me to bite, I woke up.

Any interpretations from both of my faithful readers out there?  Is Gene Wilder out to kill me?  Or should I just stop falling asleep on the couch after Lost?

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