eighteen

three incidents from a dream:

1. i was eating tortilla chips out of a bag with a woman i know. out of the corner of my eye, i saw her take a bite out of a chip and then slip it into the pocket of her sweater.

2. on dream-npr i heard the statistic that in the next ten years, only two out of ten women will have babies. but those two will have, on average, nine babies each. later, at a party, a man with a german accent asked if anyone knew what the birth rate would be for the next decade.

3. i ate chocolate cake from a pan, spilling most of it on the floor.