Every year my neighbors change – this is an area with lots of students, some of whom are a bit unpredictable. I've never had a real disaster (as V– seems to have this year, with loud music from upstairs), but some of the changes are a bit, well, peculiar.
For instance: I keep being awake far too late the past few weeks – often not going to bed before 2 or 3 am, sometimes later; or, like tonight, being wakeful from indigestion (it's 6:30 am, I'll go right back to bed after this, I promise). However, I keep hearing sounds from various neighbors, even at this hour, that seem as though they should be unexpected: as for the new Malaysian students downstairs, the guy keeps talking very, very late – isn't his girlfriend annoyed? But maybe they have the same peculiar reaction I do to the northern winter nights: they go on for so long that it becomes hard to know when you're supposed to be awake, when to go to sleep. Maybe they just have some acclimatizing to do.
But somewhat odder is that weird humming from next door. I wasn't quite sure until tonight that it wasn't from downstairs, but I'm starting to pick the sounds from below me apart from the sounds that come from the fireplace – and this is an entirely separate oddness. A guy is humming, probably in his sleep: a rather aimless and confused humming, as though he would pick out a tune if he could only think of one.
It's not unpleasant or annoying, just... odd. It makes you wonder what his roommates or partners – if such a thing exists, if they haven't run away in exasperation – say to him: "You were doing that weird humming again last night...."
[Believe it or not, the above picture was actually on a science website as an illustration of 'dark matter'. Well, duh....]
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