my dream last night was pretty fragmentary but vivid. it started with a backdrop. we had just completed some sort of shakedown cruise in a low-orbit shuttle. the crew was a mixture of military and civilian. part of the crew was some sort of special ops team that I think was intelligence-gathering. not sure. they were led by joel mckelvey, who had long hair.

we had been in space just long enough to cease the zero-gee awkwardness. now it was time for a team to descend back to the ground and do something, which was unclear to me. the team was chosen by a computer using factors unknown enough to the crew that it might as well be random. I remember as tiny display with our names and white-and-tan columns with what looked like 2-byte telemetry data written in a microsoft system font. Ss 09 fF (etc). all of these were decision points, data the computer had gathered on us during the shakedown.

the computer chose the team. I was on it although I really didn't feel up to speed. I can't remember who else was on it. we descended. not sure how on that either.

we ended up in Hollywood. we weren't undercover but we were pretending that we were just hanging out instead of on some mission. we were supposed to hook up with some guy who was my boss' ex boyfriend. er, well she wasn't my boss in the dream but an ex-boss becuase I was now doing this space mission thing. I guess that is really why I was included since nobody else would have had anything in common with this dude. anyhow they were all more than happy to hang out.

we were meeting up in the parking lot of some club. it was early twilight in the evening. he had shoulder length dark hair and a largish gold ring in his right ear. medium/tallish build; looked vaguely like he had some Native American in his genetics. I can't tell if we were supposed to get information from him or try to set him up in some compromising situation. it didn't really matter anyhow becuase this was sort of a dry-run op. we ended up hanging out with him, and instead of going into the club, walked around some of the broader residential streets in Beverly Hills, looking at the landscaping around the houses.