"It was a release."

I had a weird dream last night that there was this vessel made of cruise ships connected to each other in a steampunk-ish way. This network of ships was sailing in a storm at night. I was on one of the cruise ships where the surface resembled the rural province of the Philippines and it was inexplicably daylight. A motor tricycle passed by me. I walked by a girl, but when I asked her for her name - keeping in mind the limits of the dream world - she said it was, "Student." End of dream.

I improvised a new song in guitar practice while Vahik went out for a smoke break. It involves tapping the bottom of the strings while holding the chords to simultaneously play percussion and rhythm.

Afterward, I carried my guitar around the mall like a chick magnet - same ol' Friday routine. The manager was working at Hot Topic in a Halloween costume. Weirdly, the makeup gravitated towards her nose. She almost walked into me until she looked up, starting at the guitar first and then to my face. She grinned. The serotonin warmed by body. Score!

At night, I was jamming out to the store Cotton Up's sound systems blasting LMFAO's Sexy And I Know It when Fredy, a cashier, from Rubio's walked by.

FREDY: See you soon.
RYAN: Yeah, soon. I'll be ...
FREDY and RYAN: (At the same time) ... Eating.

The manager at Hot Topic was still there for the night shift, but this time she was out of whatever that Halloween costume was and into pajamas, a double-whammy in my database.

At Barnes & Noble, Nataly, walked up behind me on the escalator explaining that she nearly died a few minutes prior when she choked on her Nyquil, couldn't get any air, and collapsed in some store. She pointed out that it was probably Fate since every time we see each other she's walking up behind me, and that had she not almost choked to death she would've been ahead of me ... And the Universe just can't have that for a change! Anyway, she was reluctantly meeting a guy to help her with Screenwriting homework, but didn't want him to get the wrong idea of their meeting.

NATALY: Why didn't I just call you for help?

I was catching tonight's WWE Smackdown on Youtube.com since I got home late. Despite their current PG rating, there was a sexual innuendo as Cody Rhodes remarked with a subtly orgasm tone of voice, "It was a release."

To Be Continued ...