This morning at 5:45 the fire alarm went off in my building. There was knowone outside and the noise was peircing and pain full. I had stayied up til at least 3 on a late night movie binge. I didn’t want to go outside because I was so tired and knowone else was there. I thought about putting in ear plugs with my headphones on top. Then, had the shocking revlation that if there was was a fire then I would be carried out by a firemen unconcious. I wandered around the building there was knowone to be seen, and no sign of a fire. The sound of the fire alarms in the stairways was super intersting. Each floor was at a slightly different pitch and they created a some insane suspended chord that changed as walked up and down the stairs. Is there some way I could re-chord this but I could not find the charger for my camera battery.
There was clearly no fire, but I was sleep deprived and was afraided to go back to sleep (just in case.) I tryed to clean, and fold laundry. But it is imposible to think with that pericing noise. I called my friend that was on her way to work and she said you should get out, and I was like knowone else is doing it. At 6:30 I grabbed my wallet and head phones and walked over the coffee shop.
On my way down the stairs, I passed 8 firemen in full suits with air tanks holding axs in the stairs. They did not say anything to me. It wouldn’t really work anyway the alarms alternating suspended chords made verbal comunation trite. I turned my headphones up. I recognised a man on the street that I had seen in my building and asked if he knew what was going on? He told me someone had burned a pizza and set off the fire alarm and this is just how long it takes to turn the alarm system off. There was now four fire trucks and they were doing something with a ladder.
I walked away to purchass a juice and escape the noise. I returned at 7 am to see the trucks pull away. I thought sweet I will finally sleep. But no, I and everyone in my building with a north facing window have been choosen to be a patients in a sleep deprevation study. Because, now they are four large constuction things ripping holes in the street. I can hear the men talking, I can I can hear them putting on their ear helmets. They are yelling grinding. My apartment now smells like desiel. There is a cloud of dust that I can see imparing my view of downtown. Will I have to dust now? Who am I kidding I have never dusted? but it still makes me mad thinking that I will have to now! What about my alergys?
I go the kitchen, pop in some toast, start the coffee maker and realize the “best part of waking up, is Foldgers in MY cup!”
