I'm zooming around for some project or other. I'm in some sort of department store but it seems to me there's a school or office building attached. The look of the inside reminds me of the Marshall Fields store (the original) in downtown Chicago, particularly the long escalators between floors.

There's a group of people involved in the project and something needs to be done or organized upstairs and I volunteer to go up and do it. As I'm riding up the escalator, one of the people (EM, an acquaintance from elementary school through high school) coming down the other escalator says with some disgust "That's PPG for you; she always did take over everything."

There was a lot more to that dream but I can't remember it now.

It had one of my repeating elements in it though - the mall/store attached to an office building. Usually, I work in the office building and I'm trying to get home via public transportation or something like that. The mall is usually kind of a dead mall - weirdly deserted with few open stores and convolutedly configured.