EAT LITERATURE

[napoleonherself]

So I cut my foot on mecha's Nintendo last night.

Quit laughing, you. It turns out that if you take the top half off of an NES and set it upside-down on the floor, the corners become Jenny-seeking projectiles. Especially when she is stumbling sleepily around preparatory to going to bed.

The injury itself is minor; ripped a tiny flap of skin off, some blood burbled up to the new surface but didn't go much of anywhere else. However, that innocent little flap of skin + shoes and socks on = OW OW YANKY BACK AND FORTH MOMMY WHY so that I was almost in tears by the time I limped into the apartment just now.

This is why we have bandaids, self.

This morning my alarm went off at 9:30 as intended. I remember waking enough to do something to it -- I have this thing where I mean to hit snooze but often in my addled state what I do is turn the alarm off instead, which means instead of being woken up again nine minutes later I sleep forever. Given that I had a final today, I didn't want to accidentally turn it off, so I taped completely over the off switch with electrical tape -- it would take about 20 seconds of peeling to get that stuff off, and it would not stick properly after being removed. Which brings me back to my point. 9:30, alarm goes off. I do something to it, don't remember what. It never goes off again... and when mecha wakes me up shortly before 10... the tape over the off switch is undisturbed. Huh. Maybe it isn't always that I turn it off instead of hitting snooze.

So, yeah, thanks to mecha I got to my final and completed it accordingly. Felt like it went well. No questions on the one thing that I can never remember the rules for, which is a good. Now I either sleep to make up for crap sleep last night, study for tomorrowfinal, or most likely, just sit here and play NetHack.

Comments

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

I think some alarm clocks, especially recently, just don't always ring when they're supposed to. There are some mornings where I've been wide awake and noticed that it didn't go off at the right time. In my case, my clock has a feature where if you hit the conveniently located button that stops it from beeping when it's not actually beeping, it starts making the planets move faster and I think it doesn't beep while that's going on. Maybe I accidentally double-tap the button some mornings. As for your clock, perhaps it has a similar mode. Or maybe you flipped the switch through the tape.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Can't flip it through the tape, I taped it way too tightly. It would've shown.

Also, what do you mean, recently? Like, modern ones? Because mine is about a billion years old, so. (more like ten, but you get the idea.)

Also, which planets? Mars and Saturn? I'm curious.

[wing-zero-ew.livejournal.com]

For shame! You should have called me, I could have come to pick you up so you did not have to walk on your sore footage.

THIS MEANS WAR, KNAVE

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

For one thing, you desperately needed sleep. For another thing, my cellphone was at the time lying on my bed. So, uh... neener. Yes.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

I mean my alarm clock used to be so reliable before I moved to Bloomington. Now it's not. Maybe it's because I need to get up so much earlier than I used to and I sleep through alarms, but I've distinctly heard it not go off when it was supposed to, such as one can hear silence.

The planets are the ones on the clock itself. It's one of those fancy ones that has a display that shows the relative positions of the planets at any time from 1960 to 2200. If you push the button on top of the clock, that turns on "demonstration" mode, where it moves the planets quickly to show you how they move. I think it doesn't go off while it's doing that. I don't care about the planets anyway... I got this one because it has five alarms and because it was pretty cheap (I think it was only 20 riyals, which is something like 6 bucks.)

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Someone should do a study to see if Bloomington really is like the Bermuda Triangle for alarm clocks. If so, students may never get in trouble for missing class again. "Hey, I would've gotten up, but you know how it is... Bermuda Triangle for alarm clocks."

Wait. That would suck because nobody would ever bother to show up for anything. Never mind.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

As if students missing classes would change anything?

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

People would stop going to work, too. Same excuse. Society as we know it would cease to exist! AND THEN WE ALL DIE HOORAY