4 hours of sleep.
Time line.
- 1am: Wake to sound of neighbor banging on his door for 10 minutes before his room mate lets him in. Neighbor proceeds to yell at room mate for about 15 minutes
- shortly after, I’m able to fall asleep, annoyed, but not so bad in the grand scheme of things.
- sleep…
- 4am: Wake bolt upright in bed to the sound of pounding music directly above my bedroom, in my neighbors bedroom. Wonder out loud “what the fuck?”
- 4:15am: consider arson, but am in unconscious zombie land, and time slips away.
- 4:45am: realize I’m still awake, return to thoughts of violence
- 4:50am: think of calling the cops, but remember that they won’t do anything besides ring the door bell unless you say someones being murdered, or you’ve been shot, decide that lying to cops isn’t a good idea in the grand scheme of things.
- between 5am and 6am: zone between sleep and awake and half asleep, mostly angry
- Comprehend, from my days as an RA in college that trying to quell a drunk or high neighbor at 5-6am is not usually that productive.
- 7am, somehow fall asleep, possibly out of sheer exhaustion.
- wake up at 830, realize that I’m going to be late for my 9am meeting with the VP of Technology and the VP of Communications
- This is where I find my rage, that I should have had the night before, instead of paitence and hope it would quiet down
- 905am as I am walking out the door, receive a personal phone call from the VP of Technology asking where I am…
Today is not only a day where I was late for a 9am meeting, but its going to be capped with two holiday parties, that i was really hoping to be present and functional for.
But I suspect around 8pm I’m going to crash pretty hard, and thats going to suck.
A lot.
But at least its time to really have a conversation with my neighbor, and the landlord.