Strange Dream

I woke from the strangest dream this morning. Well, maybe not the strangest, but pretty strange...

I was in a hotel with Dawn, getting ready. I was to take an 8:30 AM flight to the ALA conference.

Suddenly, stranger appears at the door and asks, "can you take my daughter to the airport? She's on the same flight as you?"

Randomly, I agreed.

Then, I continued getting ready, when suddenly (and very uncharacteristically for me) I looked up and it was already 8:11 AM.

Panic stricken, I decided "oh, I'm late, I'd better check in online."

Dawn said "tell me your skymiles number and pin and I'll do it for you, while you finish getting dressed." (as if she'd have time/be finished dressing first)

I said, grumpily, "No, give me the computer" and I forgot my password...

HOWEVER, my password wasn't anything realistic. I had to remember this great, long phrase that involved pigs or hog fat or something, and I had that "its right on the tip of my tongue" frustration.

So, I'm checked in, I'm ready, and we leave the hotel (me, Dawn, stranger's daughter)...but then I forget something in the room. I go back into the hotel to discover that, yes, you guessed it, there's a lion stalking the 2nd floor hallway where the room is. So I wait for the lion to wander down the hallway (though some hotel patrons are simply ignoring or shooing the lion, I don't want to push my luck) and then bolt for the room.

Fortunately, this highly frustrating dream ends here.

I see the factors that contributed to the dream--a lunch time conference conversation yesterday with OCLC staff about the perils of business travel, attending a conference that's local (Atlanta) when normally, I'd be traveling to something like this, the end of my travel based job (which in some ways I'll miss), seeing several people join the "I'm Attending ALA in Denver" Facebook group, etc. etc...

...But I have to ask. Where did the lion come from? And the stranger with a daughter?

All interpretations welcome.