Lady Annabelle

            I couldn’t sleep again early Tuesday morning so again I got up to look at porn. There were some videos by a dominatrix named Lady Annabelle. She was more elegant visually than most doms but I didn’t turn the sound up because I’m almost always disappointed by people’s voices in porn. I assumed she's British though and that was confirmed later.

            After going back to bed I didn’t sleep much but enough to have a dream that featured Lady Annabelle prominently. It was mostly a non-sexual dream. I came to her place along with a friend that was her customer after meeting her in a nightclub. In the dream she was a lifestyle dominatrix rather than just doing it for money and she was actually quite sweet. So many doms have this theatrically mean manner about them because they think that one has to be nasty to be strong. She had a little boy that was quite unruly and I played with him a bit. She offered me a drink and I said, “Sure!” but she corrected me that it must always be “Yes’. I said “Sorry!" but she corrected me that the correct response is “Grace”. She offered me bits of advice about other things too but I don't remember what they were. I was feeling quite sleepy and decided that it was time to get ready to leave. For some reason I was not fully clothed and had trouble finding my socks. She gave me some artwork. At one point she spoke to me in fluent french. She seemed attracted to me and kept making conversation that distracted me from remembering that I was leaving. At the end of the dream we were on her red sofa together. She handed me what looked like a piece of candy and said, “Eat this!” It was soft and chewy but I don't recall a flavour. I was starting to think that she'd drugged me. I asked what it was and she said, "It's Satan’s (I couldn't make out the word she said) She began to kiss me and I kissed her back. Just as the kisses were about to become passionate, I woke up.

            The lemon tree that I’ve had for many years died in November but the little tree that came up in the same pot about six months ago is about ten centimetres high now and a couple of days ago a different plant sprouted nearby.

            Tuesday had to be a laundry day since I can’t keep going to Walmart to buy clean underwear. I went earlier than I normally would have to get it over with. It was quite warm out compared to the day before and I found I didn't need my winter gloves. The only other customer when I walked in was a little old lady who was sitting at the first folding table. She looked up at me, smiled and sweetly said, “Good morning!” It looked like she might be of Caribbean origin with a mixture of Asian and African genes.

            I had my laundry washed, dried and home before noon.

            When I took a siesta after lunch I slept for an extra half an hour.

            I worked on typing out my lecture notes and finished them a little after dark.

            I read a chapter or two of Frankenstein. I’ve only got 32 pages left. There are some extra texts after the novel, such as writings of Mary Shelley's father and mother but I don't know if they are part of the required reading.

            I’m down to picking the meat off the skeletal framework of my Christmas turkey.

            I watched two Star Trek Short Treks. They are additional fifteen-minute stand-alone stories featuring Star Trek Discovery characters. There were four of them made so far and they were shown in the fall of 2018 but I was only able to find two of them so far to download.

            The first one was called “Runaway”. There’s a stowaway on Discovery. Ensign Tilly encounters her while she is alone in the automated cafeteria satisfying her caffeine addiction late at night. She has the ability to make herself temporarily invisible and to move very quickly. By the time Tilly can see her she caused what seems to be every food item on the menu to be scattered all over the floor. Tilly is able to communicate with her and finds her name is Me Hani and she’s seventeen. She also finds that she is a wanted fugitive. Me Hani comes from a planet Xahea that was somehow born at the same time as its inhabitants and she considers the planet to be her twin sister. Tilly learns that Me Hani is also a genius, as she developed an incubator for re-crystallizing dilithium. Dilithium is used to power warp drives but it tends to decrystallize. Me Hani says that her parents died and then so did her brother. He brother was the king of Xahea. That means that Me Hani is the queen. She confirms that her coronation is tomorrow. She’s been running from the responsibility of dealing with forces that don’t respect Xahea as much as she does. Tilly convinces her to teleport back and become the Queen.

            Sylvia Tilly is played by Mary Wiseman.

            Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po was played by Yadira Guevera-Prip.

            The second story is directed by Rainn Wilson and it stars him as well as he reprises his role of con artist Harry Mudd. We find that Mudd has been captured by a Tellarite with tusks. The Tellarite bought Mudd from a bounty hunter for less than the Federation reward and plans to turn Mudd over to the Federation for the higher bounty. The Tellarite's main motivation is revenge because Mudd slept with his sister and stole a codgel that has been passed down through generations of his family. Mudd spends a lot of time trying to lie his way out of the situation. In his mind though he remembers various similar situations that he’s been in but with different tortures and different motives on the part of his captors. When the Tellarite turns Mudd over to a Federation ship the Federation officer that receives him explains that what he is delivering is a robot copy of Harry Mudd. When he opens up the brig the population consists of about ten of them, all babbling happily together. At the end we see Harry Mudd on his own starship on which the crew consists entirely of Harry Mudd robots. He’s made a business out of selling copies of himself to bounty hunters seeking the Federation reward for his capture.

            In one of Mudd’s memories he was hanging in a dungeon and a green guard with a whip was played by Canadian actor Myrthin Stagg.