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[theinevitable]

today I woke up just now. 20 minutes before I need to leave.

I woke up, and my alarm clock was still set to go off at 11 AM, still turned on, had batteries, etc. This happens to me constantly. I have tried buying new alarm clocks, using my cell phone alarm, etc.

wtf?

[smick]

I've managed to not see MIA twice because of visa issues.

She's coming to Portland soon.  I'm not even going to bother trying.

[jay-ell]

today I woke up just now. 20 minutes before I need to leave.

I woke up, and my alarm clock was still set to go off at 11 AM, still turned on, had batteries, etc. This happens to me constantly. I have tried buying new alarm clocks, using my cell phone alarm, etc.

wtf?

I'm trying to remember what it was like to have to set an alarm to get up at 11 AM.  Man, I'm old. 

Also, today, while trying to get to my OB/GYN's office, I saw this:



Needless to say, I had to find an alternate route. 

[jaydub]

today I woke up just now. 20 minutes before I need to leave.

I woke up, and my alarm clock was still set to go off at 11 AM, still turned on, had batteries, etc. This happens to me constantly. I have tried buying new alarm clocks, using my cell phone alarm, etc.

wtf?

Get your ears checked?  Go to bed earlier so you're not so exhausted you sleep through?  Are your roommates still talking to you?  I abused mine when they slept through their alarms (since I cleverly never took a class before 9am if I could help it, they were always getting up before me - which is completely defeated if their doggam alarm wakes me and not them).

[Arachno-capitalist]

Get your ears checked?  Go to bed earlier so you're not so exhausted you sleep through?  Are your roommates still talking to you?  I abused mine when they slept through their alarms (since I cleverly never took a class before 9am if I could help it, they were always getting up before me - which is completely defeated if their doggam alarm wakes me and not them).

Word.
Dan has a single this year so he probably just annoys the people in the rooms next to him.
I also have a single because last year my roommate would do the same thing which inevitably resulted in this explosion:
::Throws "THE ROAD TO WAR - HITLER'S MARCH" at roommate's head::
"NEEL, DO YOU REALIZE THAT DESPITE YOUR ALARM NOT WAKING YOU UP, IT MAY WORK ON OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM? YOU KNOW YOURE NOT GETTING UP, I KNOW YOURE NOT GETTING UP, SO STOP HITTING THE fuck*ng SNOOZE BUTTON"

[jaydub]

I'm trying to remember what it was like to have to set an alarm to get up at 11 AM.  Man, I'm old. 

Also, today, while trying to get to my OB/GYN's office, I saw this:

That looks like an imperial star destroyer nose-diving into the Death Star (or terra-firma-North Carolina).

Gas main fire?  With a crane in the background?

[jay-ell]

Oh, yes.  Explanation would probably be appreciated. 

A crewman working on the road drilled into a gas main, which ignited the fumes from a nearby truck.  Hundred foot flames, burned for six hours, no injuries, yadda yadda. 

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It was kind of neat to see up close, actually -- especially knowing now that nobody was hurt.  Kind of beautiful, in its way. 

The way of fiery, burning death. 

[theinevitable]

Get your ears checked?  Go to bed earlier so you're not so exhausted you sleep through?  Are your roommates still talking to you?  I abused mine when they slept through their alarms (since I cleverly never took a class before 9am if I could help it, they were always getting up before me - which is completely defeated if their doggam alarm wakes me and not them).

No, see, they all have classes earlier than me. For some reason WashU feels the need to add insult to injury, and make Bio-Mechanical Chemical-Systemic Math be an 8 AM class. Whereas, you know, Intro to Political Theory is at 4 PM.

I have actually been getting enough sleep for most of this year. Which is... weird and surprising.

Also: tonight, after I go to a meeting for the radio station, I am going to see Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for free.

[linnea]

Today I had to trim Milan's claws, and we reached a new all-time-low record: he only let me trim 2 claws before running away. sigh. I feel horribly guilty about trimming his claws because his little back is so bad. I have to hold him (gently) on his back, on my lap, in order to trim his claws. I always worry that I'm hurting him. Poor little dude.

[wombat]

I always worry that I'm hurting him.

That's what he wants you to think, you know.

[lprkn]

No, see, they all have classes earlier than me. For some reason WashU feels the need to add insult to injury, and make Bio-Mechanical Chemical-Systemic Math be an 8 AM class.

In general, the type of people who take those classes don't really sleep, so much as they simply exist. Next time you're there, take a look around. Odds are, you don't fit in with the general make-up of the class.

[Doc]

No, see, they all have classes earlier than me. For some reason WashU feels the need to add insult to injury, and make Bio-Mechanical Chemical-Systemic Math be an 8 AM class. Whereas, you know, Intro to Political Theory is at 4 PM.

I think this is a thing typical of higher learning institutions. My first uni lecture was chemistry 8am monday, this was a trend that continued for three years. Meanwhile my brother's business and mass communication classes rarely require him to get up pre-noon.

Kind of beautiful, in its way. 

The way of fiery, burning death. 

There's another way?
Now you're getting me all hot and bothered.

[KeithHernandez]

It is.  All of my History classes are in the afternoon, whereas my engineering friends all have class at like 8 am. 

[theinevitable]

In general, the type of people who take those classes don't really sleep, so much as they simply exist. Next time you're there, take a look around. Odds are, you don't fit in with the general make-up of the class.

...Why would I wake up early to go visit their class? That is not happening. I'm happy with my Noon film class, thank you very much.

also: I feel like it makes me some kind of Major Hipster Douchebag that I keep walking out of concerts after 40 minutes. In the past 6 months or so: Ratatat, Tilly and the Wall, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Animal Collective. Oops?

[V-Adore]

I'm preparing myself for maybe doing that at the New Pornographers show I'm going to soon, but that's because the Gentleman Caller has never heard them before and seems likely to get the vapors.

In thread-normal terms: yesterday, I bought tickets to see the New Pornographers with the Gentleman Caller in Boston towards the end of the month.