Stay awake, don't rest your head Don't lie down upon your bed While the moon drifts in the skies Stay awake, don't close your eyes
Though the world is fast asleep Though your pillow's soft and deep You're not sleepy as you seem Stay awake, don't nod and dream Stay awake, don't nod and dream
It's from Mary Poppins, she sings it to the children to make them go to sleep. I sing it to Mark if he's having trouble getting to sleep too. Don't know if it helps or not, but still.
Back in the early 90s, Nirvana's Nevermind was ruined for me by the student flat above my girlfriend's playing it constantly and loudly at all times of the day and night. My own house at this point was the obligatory "student house from hell" that every student gets to enjoy at some point, so relatively speaking hers was a refuge.
I never lived in the house from hell. It was always a tip, but a reasonably hygeinic tip. One of our housemates moved in without meeting us, the landlady gave her a tour of the house, she liked our CD collection in the kitchen...
She's gone all quiet now, and one of them has been moved out, so I'm now not sleeping due to heat, not noise...
I met two of my best friends by moving into their house without meeting them (I was a postgrad, they were 2nd years who had buggered off back to their parents for the summer). Due to my previous HfH experience I was really worried about what they'd be like.
My HfH had me and a friend moving in with a bunch of people we didn't know but who all knew each other. They were loud, arrogant and demanded money for "communual items" that we hadn't agreed to (like hiring a big telly and a video, a non-trivial cost in the early 90s). One of them also went through a nervous breakdown. The house itself was nice.
We had the distinct advantage that I was a mature student, and owned a decent TV, a half dead TV and a decent video.
We hada few problems with the phone bill (mostly when the utility company changed the "free local calls" to start at 8pm instead of 6 and started charging for bank holidays; university was on the same network, so free dial up via their proxy, except, well, I spent a whole bank holiday online after it stopped being free. Oops.
But then, when I moved in, I knew one housemate, and the rest were people he'd chosen, and we all had interests in common. Only ever had people move in, and the only "housemate from hell" simply disappeared (without paying rent) without a word. Landlady let us off though, which was nice.
Ah, the joys of shared houses and student style living. I'm thinking of going for it again at the moment, cheaper than the current flat, anyway.
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Date: 2006-Jul-11, Tuesday 07:18 (UTC)Don't lie down upon your bed
While the moon drifts in the skies
Stay awake, don't close your eyes
Though the world is fast asleep
Though your pillow's soft and deep
You're not sleepy as you seem
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
*tiptoes away*
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Date: 2006-Jul-11, Tuesday 20:04 (UTC)He apologised this morning, in a roundabout way, but still, 2 hours sleep not good for a man...
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Date: 2006-Jul-12, Wednesday 07:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-Jul-20, Thursday 18:49 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-Jul-20, Thursday 22:00 (UTC)She's gone all quiet now, and one of them has been moved out, so I'm now not sleeping due to heat, not noise...
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Date: 2006-Jul-21, Friday 15:44 (UTC)My HfH had me and a friend moving in with a bunch of people we didn't know but who all knew each other. They were loud, arrogant and demanded money for "communual items" that we hadn't agreed to (like hiring a big telly and a video, a non-trivial cost in the early 90s). One of them also went through a nervous breakdown. The house itself was nice.
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Date: 2006-Jul-21, Friday 17:21 (UTC)We hada few problems with the phone bill (mostly when the utility company changed the "free local calls" to start at 8pm instead of 6 and started charging for bank holidays; university was on the same network, so free dial up via their proxy, except, well, I spent a whole bank holiday online after it stopped being free. Oops.
But then, when I moved in, I knew one housemate, and the rest were people he'd chosen, and we all had interests in common. Only ever had people move in, and the only "housemate from hell" simply disappeared (without paying rent) without a word. Landlady let us off though, which was nice.
Ah, the joys of shared houses and student style living. I'm thinking of going for it again at the moment, cheaper than the current flat, anyway.