She Was.

I don’t know about any of you, but when I’m stressed, and can’t quite figure out exactly what is bothering me most, I can always rely on my subconscious to send me a subtle, (or not so subtle, as the case may be) kick in the ass that makes me sit up and take notice.

Last night, I dreamt that my potential future mother-in-law summoned me to her office. In my dream, I’d never been to her workplace before and was shocked to discover, that her workplace was in fact, The White House. Yes, that White House, only right here in Athens. I asked for her office number at reception only to be met with a quizzical look and a sarcastic ‘Well, it’s the office, the oval office, of course’. Confused, I followed as the P.A led me down the hall and into my potential mother-in-law’s oval office.

Sure enough, there she was, seated behind the big desk, the tell tale eagle in the centre of the room replaced by the Greek Evil Eye. On either side of her people had lined up to ask her for favors, for help with their problems, and to make various offerings to her. She was talking on her mobile, and had an army of minions fluttering around behind her, bringing her coffee and dealing with the ‘commoners’ requests. Seeing me, she ushered me over and told me to take a seat. She wanted to have a little chat with me about my relationship with her son. Confused, I asked her what was going on. ‘I’m the President’ she said matter-of-factly. ‘The President of what?’ I asked completely bewildered. ‘Why, of the Free World’ she replied raising her immaculately plucked eyebrows and letting out one of those super villain mwahhahha’s. ‘But’, I continued, ‘We are in Greece, this isn’t America’, to which she replied ‘This is Greek America’.

I woke up all sweaty and breathless, thinking: ‘Lets see, I dreamt my potential mother-in-law was the head of arguably one of the most powerful countries in the world… Guess I don’t need to consult my oneirokritis (Greek dream book) to figure out what this one means’.

* The SouthPark version of my potential mother-in-law comes from the awesome SouthPark Studio website.