So do I duck and cover, or what?
May 30th, 2006 by GoldenAppleCorp
I watched some tv. I read for a little while. I tossed and turned, listening to AT’s rhythmic snoring.
It was a quiet snore. Any louder and I would have been justified in kicking him hard enough to make him roll over. I gently prodded him a couple of times, quietly asking him to roll over. At one point I threatened to shove my foot up his ass.
I rolled onto my other side and flopped my arm over my ear, trying to block out the snores. But apparently they were on a dicey soundwave that is more felt than heard. It resonated through my pillow, my mattress, my arm.
After about 30 minutes of this, I felt sleep coming. It was over the next hill, but its gentle waves were radiating toward me.
And then the siren started. I figured it was a car alarm and waited impatiently for it to stop. After five minutes of the blaring urgency, I got up, threw on some shorts and came in here to poke my head out the door and see if I could tell which house would need rolling tomorrow night.
But apparently the source of the alarm is across the turnpike. You know, where all the super-classified stuff is.
If I lived anywhere else, I’d dismiss the siren immediately, get some water, get indignant, and go back to bed. Instead my jaw clenches painfully, I feel the stomach acid rise, and wonder if I should be turning on the tv, just in case there’s some sort of emergency broadcast.
Oh well. 30 minutes after it started, the siren has stopped. I’ll stop being paranoid and try to get some sleep.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:33 am
For those interested, I would point out that GAC slept over 60% of the midnight to midnight 24 hour period, whilst her snoring husband, trying desperately to be a big boy and hang out with his woman despite going to work at 6 AM, made due with with sleeping only 25% of that period.
May 30th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Actually, it was a little less than 50%, so neener. And if I go to bed at my regular time tonight, I will have slept only 25% of today away. So double neener.