My mother invited me to this fancy dinner for her work, because I know German and she had some German visitors. I got my hair cut short, like a pixie cut, but it made my face look round and fat so I was ashamed of it. Outside of the hotel there was a stubborn parking ticket gate, that I knew how to use because Katherine had brought me here before. Once we got back from the party, I hid in my room with my piano until my grandmother and the Ballards came over and my mother yelled at me for being an antisocial freak. Also, there was some confusion about it being a week before Christmas, though in the dream I thought "Wait, Christmas just happened. Has it been a year already? What happened during that year?