Invading My Dreams

(Said in movie announcer voice)
"In a world, where careers collide....." I dream up a strange concoction of Mu, academia, and former interns from Maine. Bizarro, I know. But, I suppose understandable as my brain attempts to make sense of my recent vocational change. Suddenly I'm teaching an Asian American theater class. Actually, subbing would be more correct. Rick is supposed to be teaching it, but he's late, coming back from the Kennedy Center program in DC. I, in true dream-like fashion, had no idea I would have to be subbing, and am trying to fumble around for something to do. I think I remember suggesting analyzing a play by Philip Kan Gotanda, though I don't remember which one. Just then Rick comes back, and hops on to the bus that we're all apparently on. He asks me to tell them to just use this class as a study hall, since he doesn't have anything planned. The students in the class are Mu actors and one of the three interns that worked with me at the Portland Stage Company that was of Chinese heritage. They were very upset by the fact that Rick and I weren't taking the class seriously. So, I spent the rest of the time creating a syllabus, or at least ideas for one. We would look at work by Gotanda and Hwang, and do some other investigative and practical work that I can't remember now, but seemed brilliant at the time. Maybe when it comes time for me to create a syllabus next year, I should just dream about it....