I am not CJ Craig

I love the West Wing. Particularly CJ Craig. She’s witty, smart, and awesome… not gonna lie, I’ve got a small girl crush on her. So it may not surprise you that she turned up in my dream last night that was sort of a cross between the West Wing, my fear of being called on in law school, and the 2008 Elections. Intrigued? Read on.

So in my dream, for some reason I was the person who was in charge of giving announcements that day at the White House. Like a guest speaker but from the masses. And they gave me some big paragraph to read where I was going to be announcing the next president.. or presidential nominee, or… anyway, it was something important. How I warranted this honor I have no idea. Dreams are cool like that. But then 30 seconds before I am supposed to go on, the nominee backs out. They still want to announce somebody in the speech though! So there is a whole panic attack behind the scenes where people were all asking “who wants to be president? Quick! We need someone! Seriously, anyone will do” (dreams don’t mimic real life at ALL, huh??). Some random guy then volunteers and CJ scribbles his name onto my speech for me. 2 seconds later, I’m up.

I walk up to the lectern and stupidly have not practiced reading this speech at all. So I’m stumbling over words, trying to speak slowly, and then I come to an entire MISSING PARAGRAPH. I try to bullshit something about how great our country is but it’s clear I have no CLUE what I am doing and then I come to the end of the speech where I say ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the next nominee for the president… mmmphrmphh”,

Yup, that’s what it sounded like. I literally mumbled something indistinguishable because I had no idea how to pronounce this new guy’s last name... and everyone cheered anyway. Go figure.

Interpretations?