Whenever I hear those words, I think of an awesome song by the Strokes. That was until I heard the Fear of Sleep episode of This American Life. It was from like, a year ago. I just listened to it the other day and now I really appreciate my snoozes. In the episode, Ira Glass (who is coming to speak at HSU soon, but for a whole lotta $$$) presents tales of Americans who have trouble sleeping – one guy had issues with sleepwalking. The others? BUGS. I can not stop thinking of these poor women living in Brooklyn that had cockroaches crawling into their ears! You have to listen to this. It’s crazy. There were so many bugs in their apartment that they had to stuff tissue in their ears to avoid another trip to the emergency room to get the bugs removed. Why wouldn’t they just move? I guess they said the rent was cheap (I would hope so) and it was a safe neighborhood (makes me appreciate the quiet streets of Arcata).
I had my own run-in with fear of sleep last night. I kept hearing mosquito hawks buzzing near my ear in my room. I had to get a mop. I swung it. Three or four times I jumped out of bed. I really didn’t want to bother killing them, but I just kept thinking of cockroach lady and was DETERMINED.
RIP mosquito hawks. Sorry, but you made me afraid to sleep.
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