DEATH RAIN OF PHOTONS
May. 27th, 2005 12:11 pmSo as I've been whining about in posts earlier this week, for the last few mornings in a row my beloved ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird and I have been awakened earlier than we should be by a DEATH RAIN OF PHOTONS pouring down through the top of our bedroom window. This has been waking me up an hour if not longer before my alarm is actually supposed to go off.
And this morning I woke up well before five--because we'd left the bedroom windows open in an effort to allow breezes to circulate through the room and keep things relatively cool. That was fine, except for the part where as soon as the sun came up, EVERY BIRD IN KENMORE had to chirp about it. So I got jarred awake by a non-stop barrage of CHIRP CHIRP CHIRPITY CHIRPY CHIRP CHIRPITY CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP.
Our problem is that we have this semi-circle piece of window, at the very top, that has no shade. And it is positioned in such a way so as to focus early morning sunlight right down onto the bed, not entirely unlike sunlight through a magnifying glass frying insects. We don't have the extra bucks to get a shade up there, and even if we did, I'm not sure what we could find that would a) fit and b) look good.
As we are heading into the warm and sunny season of Seattle, our cloudy days are going to get fewer and farther between--so this hammer of light is going to continue to be a problem. We will very possibly have to resort to sleeping in our nice dark guest bedroom on the other side of the house, which does NOT get the death rain of photons in the morning. I hope I'll be able to sleep on the air mattresses in there all right, because I can't continue to be this groggy at work. >_< It's interfering with my writing, too, which is even more annoying to me.
Come to think of it, this may well have contributed to my insomnia problems earlier this year, since we've had an unusually bright and sunny winter and spring, too.
I suppose all this would be fabulous if I were in fact a morning person. But I'm not. I like to stay up in the dark hours, because it's quiet and cool and peaceful, and I am firmly of the belief that civilized persons should not have to rouse themselves before ten or even eleven. Alternately, I could put up with it if I knew I would have the opportunity to nap during the afternoon, but that's not exactly an option in a crowded computer lab.
Clearly, I either need to get a job with my own office, where nobody's going to care if I take a 40-minute nap, or else I need to damn well sell a few novels and start being able to write and work from home.
solarbird and I have been awakened earlier than we should be by a DEATH RAIN OF PHOTONS pouring down through the top of our bedroom window. This has been waking me up an hour if not longer before my alarm is actually supposed to go off.And this morning I woke up well before five--because we'd left the bedroom windows open in an effort to allow breezes to circulate through the room and keep things relatively cool. That was fine, except for the part where as soon as the sun came up, EVERY BIRD IN KENMORE had to chirp about it. So I got jarred awake by a non-stop barrage of CHIRP CHIRP CHIRPITY CHIRPY CHIRP CHIRPITY CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP.
Our problem is that we have this semi-circle piece of window, at the very top, that has no shade. And it is positioned in such a way so as to focus early morning sunlight right down onto the bed, not entirely unlike sunlight through a magnifying glass frying insects. We don't have the extra bucks to get a shade up there, and even if we did, I'm not sure what we could find that would a) fit and b) look good.
As we are heading into the warm and sunny season of Seattle, our cloudy days are going to get fewer and farther between--so this hammer of light is going to continue to be a problem. We will very possibly have to resort to sleeping in our nice dark guest bedroom on the other side of the house, which does NOT get the death rain of photons in the morning. I hope I'll be able to sleep on the air mattresses in there all right, because I can't continue to be this groggy at work. >_< It's interfering with my writing, too, which is even more annoying to me.
Come to think of it, this may well have contributed to my insomnia problems earlier this year, since we've had an unusually bright and sunny winter and spring, too.
I suppose all this would be fabulous if I were in fact a morning person. But I'm not. I like to stay up in the dark hours, because it's quiet and cool and peaceful, and I am firmly of the belief that civilized persons should not have to rouse themselves before ten or even eleven. Alternately, I could put up with it if I knew I would have the opportunity to nap during the afternoon, but that's not exactly an option in a crowded computer lab.
Clearly, I either need to get a job with my own office, where nobody's going to care if I take a 40-minute nap, or else I need to damn well sell a few novels and start being able to write and work from home.
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