15Dec / 2004

Still-life with big bed

  • One big bed with sheets, down comforter, pillows, buckwheat neck thing.

  • One man who has gone nearly without sleep for past two nights.
  • Three stuffed rabbits, one stuffed fish, one stuffed owl.
  • One lava lamp (red) employed as night light.
  • One Gamma (from Greek word meaning “snores like Cyclops”)
  • One Beta (from Greek word meaning “filthy blanket thief”)
  • One red cat, purring on man’s chest like this.
  • One cell phone set to ring at 4.00 AM by Beta “so I can fall back to sleep for another three hours”.
  • One ceiling, stared at by man between 4.01 and 4.45 when he finally gives up and goes into kitchen to make lots of coffee.

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6 responses to “Still-life with big bed”

  1. francis s.

    Tormented by an incubus (or is that a succubus?). Poor Mig.

  2. mig

    He’s more or less male, so I’m guessing incubus.

  3. anne

    i was up. i would have talked to you if you’d been on line. i could have lulled you straight to sleep with tales of sociologists gone wild.

  4. Karan

    This is exactly the same in Olympia, WA.

  5. paul

    It took me years to get used to having a wife who shuts off the alarm and then doesn’t get out of bed for another 15 minutes. It’s not that it doesn’t totally wake me up because I can’t go back to sleep knowing that she will wake me up again in 15 minutes when she gets me out of bed (akin to “waiting for the other shoe to drop”), it’s just that as I seethe silently in bed, I’m used to it…

  6. mig

    We repeated it again last night, except I made Beta bring her own blanket to the party, which reduced the blanket thievery, but Gamma kept kicking the blankets away all night, which woke me up about once or twice an hour. And the cats started fighting around 3-4 AM.

    So I “let them out”.