so get this. i dreamt something funny last night.

last night, i was for some reason a pianist for the Miro Quartet and the request was really out of blue. while i don't know them personally, i know of them of course. i was all nervous and they were quite demanding that i play this and that with them for their upcoming tour. what the heck!

anyway, i was skipping work to find practicing time and for some reason i could only find available pianos @ columbia. so i was taking the 6 train up from work during lunch, then cabbing to columbia. in one of the cabs, the dude was so nice, talking to me about life, and etc and i was SO ANXIOUS, like "please just SHUT UP and get me there!!!"

i get to the practice rooms @ columbia (which i honestly don't know if they have those or not), and all the pianos are occupied. i'm freaking out about missing work, and not being able to practice on top of that. then i find a piano w/o the top. the entire piano top is missing (the lid, etc.) and you can see it wide open and can see some strings are missing. i can't complain so i just start practicing scales, really worried about time being wasted. then i play some keys which produced a funny clunky sound, like i had my hand on the string itself (muted). i looked into the piano and OMG, there was this dirty beigy cat inside the piano! i was like, WHAT THE. then, i tried to get the cat out, because obviously it was making itself a home inside. so i kept playing those strings/keys, to get the cat out and finally it did, meowing. it was such a dirty but a cute cat. not a cat i've ever seen in real life. anyway, it was jumping around whenever i played the piano, instead of just coming out of the piano shell. so i kept playing keys that'd be under the cat's paws (NOTE: in real life, i have NO IDEA if this would even be realistic). anyway, finally the cat jumps up to the edge of the keyboard top (so the cat's at the eye level with me) and i notice again how dirty it is, yet so cute. and the cat meows for me to pet her, so which i do. cat is in heaven when i'm petting! and in the back of my mind, i kept worrying "oh jeez. this cat is so pretty but i have to practice!"

what is this dream about? worrying?? piano?? cat? what the heck!