Foolish Belligerence  There is an airplane flying. I have a view outside of the plane, into one of its windows. It is getting dark and the lights in the cabin are on. There is a person, which may be me, hanging from the edge of a window outside the plane. I feel the grip the person has on the window. The person moves along, hanging from different windows, moving towards the back of the plane. The person finds a window that has a good grip. The person knocks on the window with their right hand, to signal for help! No one is seated next to the window. A woman with short dark hair, who reminds me slightly of my coworker Lauren, is sitting across the aisle from the window. She notices the knock, but looks over as if it is impossible anything is outside the plane. The woman eventually comes over to the window or realizes, to her horror, that there is someone outside the plane! When she realizes this, the engines of the plane fly into reverse to slow it down so they can bring the person in through the window. The people inside the plane roll the inner window down and somehow get the outer window off. The mother of the person outside the plane, who is a girl, is inside the plane. The mother has long straight blond hair. The girl climbs in through the window. I feel myself climbing in through the window. The girl hugs her mother.  I am on a plane with my mom and my friend Melanie McDyss. I hug Melanie. I feel exhausted and relaxed, as if I have just finished or accomplished something important. I am happy. Melanie sits on my lap. I hug her while we sit. I tell her how much I care about her and love her. We are sleeping. I have my arms around her. She moves my hand because it may have made her uncomfortable where it was, resting on her thigh, with some sexual feeling to it. I am then careful about touching her because I don't want to offend her. She moves and sleeps with my mom in her seat where there is more room, and where we won't be touching. The plane has landed. We go out to eat with my dad, my aunt Sheila Redding, and others. Shelia speaks of brown sugar stir-fry with pecans, and says she ate all of it.  I'm in a car driving with my mom, Sheila, my brother Wally, and others. I talk about what a busy schedule I have. My schedule overlaps. I am supposed to be somewhere for three weeks from sometime in August until September 8th. Schools starts September 8th, and I am supposed to work then as well.  I'm walking near Wilmerton University. Other people are there. I see my psychology professor Marianne Stash and her partner, who is really pale-skinned. They are having a good conversation as they walk. Marianne is characteristically attentive. We walk by each other, and I don't say hi. I go into a big building. There is a party being held there later. I have a big roll of crepe paper. Three admission men deny me access to go upstairs while others are setting up. I want to go upstairs. They say I can't because if I go upstairs I'd have to walk through the gymnasium, and there are people in the gymnasium who want not to be interrupted. I am mad! I think it is dumb that I can't go in. The men don't really have authority. They get it because people accept what they say. I think to myself: why do I even listen to them? I walk out of the building feeling frustrated and say, "Fuck this!" The women's bathrooms there are being cleaned. Marianne walks by as I leave. She is going in the women's bathroom. I tell her that they wouldn't let me in, and we'll see how she can do. I see a big list of people on a kiosk that are coming. It is comprised of many alumni and professors. I wouldn't want to be there. As I walk out, I see a friend's father, Greg Kulik. I say hi and walk towards him. I have the roll of crepe paper in my right hand. As I walk towards Greg, I shake someone's hand. It is an awkward handshake because the grip wasn't right. I shake Greg's hand when I get to him, using my left hand. I think that I am greeting him warmly, while in the past I have been wrong or bad to him, which I know in the back of my mind. I see my ex-girlfriend Annie Thomas and her father Bill come in the outer doors in the background of other people. I don't do anything, but act like I don't see her, in order to make her react first to seeing me. Suddenly my high school and grade school classmates John Kulik, Patrick Bergman, and Eric Stoner are right in front of me. Eric is shirtless, but wearing a light blue v-cut jean jacket that looks like it is from the 1980's. John is arrogant, like he has heard me talk about how dumb, weak, and stupid he is. He is there with a big cocky grin and long hair. He has come with his buddies to retaliate to what I have said and to make a big deal of it. They want to fight me. One of the three goes in front of me, and another behind me, where a granite bench is. It is as if they are going to push me back over the bench. I say to them, "What are you guys doing?", with a tone in my voice indicating I think their actions are dumb. I think I could beat up all three of them. I am more powerful than any one of them, but I think maybe I can take them all on at the same time. I am not afraid, but this is not the place for a fight. Annie is there and she smiles arrogantly as if she has sided with the three of them, and wants revenge against me as well, and she'll get it by having the three men come after me. She smiles as the three men prance around me. They are belligerent. I know I could beat them up but would rather not do so with all the people around, right in front of them.