dream theater

I dreamed I saw a picture from Ivanka's wedding, in which she was standing at the back of the venue before the ceremony, waiting for her father to come walk her down the aisle, watching him approach in that goofily rapturous way she always seems to look at him (and, to be fair, brides often do look at their dads), as he approached - eating a piece of wedding cake out of his bare hand.

When I woke up, two things were obvious: (1) the completely gross metaphor about that man's relationship with what is clearly his favorite child and (2) the glaring contrast with a dream I had about Joe Biden once, which I can't find where I wrote it down (not here, not Facebook), but I still remember it, so here it is:

I once had a dream in which someone told me that when he's hosting a reception or similar, Joe Biden always goes through the buffet line first so that he can take the smallest piece or the thing that's broken or a little burnt or whatever and make sure what's available to his guests is as perfect as it can be - and when I woke up from that dream (several years ago, maybe before the last election or maybe between the election and the inauguration, ugh) I remember thinking that seemed to ring fairly plausible with most of what I'd heard about the guy, I'd believe it.