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October 12, 2004

the sound

last night around 1am or so, as i was drifting off, i started to hear this... sound.

at first i thought it was my neighbors revving their car engine in their driveway over and over again.

their back porch light was shining into my bedroom windows; the makeshift window treatments i've had for the last five years had come down, and i'd not yet had time to replace them.

i was unhappy, quite unhappy with my nieghbors. i got up, popped my head out the back door.

it wasn't them.

after a while, i realized that it might be the sound if I-85 construction. if so... i can only imagine how deafening it must have been at christa's house. egads.

since i was up, and unhappy, i decided i'd have to do something about the bright light shining into my windows. chances were, the light would be on all night.

i stapled black fabric over the windows. it's one of those things that makes you shake your head... standing on a stepstool in your robe, late at night, stapling remnants from your fabric basket to your window frames.

oddly, blocking the light from the room seemed to help block the sound as well... it all seemed quite peaceful and i fell asleep.

Posted by lisa at October 12, 2004 08:51 AM | TrackBack

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it was loud, all right. hoo-boy.

somehow, though, by the grace of god, i got to bed around 1am and stayed asleep.

i could hear the noise getting a little more distant as the night drew on. maybe when it woke you up at 1am there was some kind of weird amplification trianglulation going on...

Posted by: christa on October 12, 2004 09:00 AM

was THAT what that was????

i was certain that somebody had been locked out of their own home and were trying to obtain access by way of the hammer.

Posted by: rick! on October 12, 2004 09:44 AM

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