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I paint, write, and dance. Also cook vegetarian food.

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Monday, 11 July 2005

The building I am living in is more or less shaped like a capital H, and my apartment is the left side of the H. My bedroom is on the top tip of the H, which means that I have windows on three out of four sides. So, I should be getting at least some sunlight all day long, and as far as that goes, it's a great room. Okay. It's the Northern California of bedrooms--warm and sunny, but not enough to attract millions of beach bums. And we've been getting along just fine, except that on some nights, I've been getting a really great night's sleep, and on other nights... well, on other nights, I wake up more exhausted than I was when I went to bed. I've been blaming this all on the new place. I'll get used to it, won't I?
Well, as it turns out, having three windows means that I have three different sets of neighbors on three different sides of the building who all have the honor and priveledge of flashing lights in my room while I'm trying to sleep. Light shines in from the other side of the H, whenever they get up to go to the bathroom. Light shines in from the neighbors every time they go in, or out, or look for their dog. And I don't just mean the innocuous little porch light, I mean two floodlights with massive, massive wattage--you know, the kind farmers use around their barns to keep the Coyotes away. The reason why none of the SETI programs have worked? The little green men look down at Earth, see the lights, as my neighbors go in, and out, and in and out and in and out all night long, and figure there couldn't possibly be any intelligence behind all that randomness. Neighbor number three--and her husband--just leave the lights on in their kitchen all night long. Which, in all honesty, I can live with.
So, last night, after one neighbor had gone to the bathroom, and the other neighbor had put their dog out, I got up and put about ten yards of turquoise crushed velvet over the dog neighbor's window. And aside from the fact that I have no intention of making any space I have to live in permanently turquoise, it worked out fairly well. Folded several times, it turns out that that's just about enough fabric to block out my neighbor's deer lights.
And I slept very well last night, thank you very much.
The goal, as I see it, is to have a room which is :
1. As dark as possible during the night
2. Predictable. I can't make my decision on whether or not to sleep based on whether the neighbors can find their dog.
However... I would also like to be able to tell whether it's morning or night without consulting a clock, and I happen to enjoy waking up to the nice gradual glow of the sunrise.

So, the trick of the thing is to be able to sleep without actually transforming my beautiful, sunny room into a pit of dispair.
I'm definitely going to block out the neighbors with the dog. And I think I'm going to leave the neighbors with the kitchen alone. They aren't that much trouble, after all. Still debating on the other half of the H. They're usually in bed and asleep before I am, or at least, right about the same time. And I like that window. It lets all the nice, pink sunlight come in early in the morning. As long as they stay regular, they should be no problem.

Do you think it would be wrong to make them All-Bran treats?

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