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October 17, 2004
Aaargghh
Last night was all about me not getting nice sleep.
First, people were talking in the other room as I was trying to get to sleep. I figured, "Quiet hours just started, they're not that loud, and they'll probably quiet down." Soon enough, they did.
But then, at 11:30 or so, cacophony exploded outside my room. People flowed out of somewhere laughing, talking, and carrying on so loudly that they didn't even hear me when I bellowed, "SHUT UP!" (my window is open).
You know, it's a real feat to wake me up from a dream. Bombs exploding (Roseville, early 80s) have failed to do so; the best intentions of family members have failed to do so. I'm bitterly impressed that mere people managed to do so inadvertently.
They still didn't hear me when I came outside. I had to yell specific names to get attention, and demanded that they quiet down.
They got quieter. So instead of sounding like a dorm orgy, they sounded like a cocktail party. The problem is, I didn't want them sounding like anything, other than hibernating bears perhaps.
Things got quieter and quieter, and I fell back asleep.
And then at 4:30, I hear this noise and open my eyes to see something hurtling toward me. I scream as a cat lands on Jamison's bed. It's Skits, and s/he's gotten in via our window, somehow bypassing the screen. "Skits" is short for "schizophrenic", and I'm tempted to throw the thing back out into the rain, until it settled down with Jamison.
For a while. I was woken up again as the cat exited our room by the same noisy entrance.
My maintenance request is already printed and being left in their mailbox this morning.
After breakfast it's off to the Redwoods Marathon, weather permitting.
Posted by Josh A. at October 17, 2004 07:48 AM