I'm the kinda kid who likes a nice place to sleep. Think quiet. Think well ventilated. Think all kinds of coziness and comfortness. Think dark. Think very dark. Think of waking up and having to *know* where you’re going because all is dark that you cannot see anything to navigate by. That’s how dark I like it to be to sleep. No nasty little chinks of light creeping from under the door or any of those horrid gapes in curtains that let in just that smidgeon of light. I have venetians [very dusty, faintly decaying, belonging to the flat] on my bedroom window; I’ve never once opened them. I also have curtains – two sets, the first is to block the light [and hide those venetians] and the second cause they’re gold and they fucking rock. Let it be said that in sleep I hate the light. I will get out of bed and fix things if I see any light when I’m trying to go to sleep. I will even do this in the middle of winter when it’s freezing. I am rather dedicated to the eradication of light from my sleeping space.
This is one of those posts that relates directly to the one before.
So, I take myself to bed last night [there are so many things wrong with that statement], I climb in, I switch out the light and have my eyes open as I get myself comfortable and, ‘what’s that?’ that thing, that little green light thing on my goddamn ceiling? Ah yes, as if a fire-alarm in the bedroom when the only exit to the place is next to the kitchen and through the living room isn’t weird and annoying enough, I find out the hard way that said alarm has a permanent little green light which sweetly shines RIGHT ABOVE MY FUCKING BED. I am, oh so mildly, annoyed by this. This will annoy me on those nights where, for unknown reasons, I have become insomniac. It will shit me to tears when I’m drunk/hungover. For the moment though, it just annoys me.
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You fucken rock nailpolishblues...!
um, thanks Nancy...[casts off all modesty] Why yes, yes I do.
ps - who the fuck is Nancy - anyone..? Bueller? Anyone?
Jesus. I have to say that I wouldn't be that good about it. I actually had my dad remove the fire alarm from my bedroom and move to to the hallway just outside. The little red light was pissing me off.
I thought I was alone in this! I detest any kinda light when I'm trying to sleep. I have two layers of thick black garbage bags taped to my windows to block out the infernal light. Thankfully my smoke alarm is in the hallway, not the bedroom.
The worst thing is if I go away on holidays or something, you know, staying in hotels/motels...I use those silly mask things that you put over your eyes to block out the light, but often the light gets through.
I have often felt sorry for vampires for this reason!
I had one of those in my bedsit when I lived in St Kilda and I fucking hated it, so being practical person that I am I just took the freaking battery out... call me Miss Safety I know! I also need pure darkness to sleep but there was a slight problem with this when I lived in St Kilda. The huge window in my bedsit fronted onto the most infamous street in the suburb, so occasionally I would wake up around two or 3 AM to police lights flashing outside because the cops had just busted some pros or D&D's!
and Boz, didn't Mulder or Scully teach you anything? We are not alone *insert creepy music here*
Hmmmm is this where I mention that the damn thing is hooked up to my electricity via my bedroom light?
If it is hooked up to a camera for porn purposes then there are going to be some VERY disappointed viewers [kinky perves- like you'd wanna watch me anyway] unless they like watching people toss and turn in sleep [literally have been waking on the edges of my bed, first one side then the other within a few hours of each other...how exhausting.
Re that second comment, Glen, wtf? Get off the drugs, they won't help the thesis.
Thank fuck the rest of you are even weirder than me. Garbage bags...hmmm...
Add 'Bullshit' to that, Rachy, and you could be right.
ugh, someone shoot Andy Warhol :)
I have a sneaking suspicion that may be Nancy from H/V, because I gave her my blog address over the weekend...
Is Nancy - she came up to me before. lol. She complimented me and I blushed my arse off.
I would suggest a dob of bluetak.
It wont shine thru that....
I sleep with the moon shining in....which i love.......esp if it rains.....
hey Blues no new posts...whats going on????? I promise i wont say a thing anymore. i will read in silence. Signed your tormentor from H/V ... LOL ... :P
Am working on one - for the first time like ever it's taking me ages and ages to write.
It's the long awauted school reunion one at that...
awaited, even
Hurrah! The school reunion post. And I'd lost hope it would ever see the light of day.
As I plan never to attend a school reunion I look forward to experiencing yours vicariously.
As for the light, you have my sympathy. I can't stand repetition when I'm trying to sleep. A flashing light, the ticking of a clock, the scratching of a ceiling fan. The inevitability of the next flash, tick or scratch is enough to irritate me into insomnia.
Thought the blu tac was a good idea...
I thought the blutac had all the hallmarks of great sense too...
Um, about the school reunion - it hasn't happened yet and I'm not actually going but I do have an awful lot to say about it and the charming pond-spawn infants of satan that I attended school with.
Oh how I loved that place, I miss it still!
Nevermind, I'm sure bile-infused recollections of those halcyon days of school will do just fine.
I saw someone from my school at my brother's wedding recently. He came up and told me about breeding and mortgaging until I (rather quickly, it must be said) introduced him to someone I didn't know very well and legged it. I felt bad about that. Briefly.
I wouldn't have felt bad about that at all. I would have been very please with myself.
lol, shoot Andy Warhol.
In case I don't make it all the way through the most recent post, I will comment here and say: use blu-tack or stickytape something solid over the light. Don't take the battery out.
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