| Ive set my alarm so that when it goes off it blasts the radio. I became immune to the pulsing high pitch red squeal of alarm clocks a long time ago. One doesnt normally describe a sound with a color but honestly the sound is red. I know that I only think it is red because of the boxy red numbers that glare at you like a vampire staring into your bedroom window but to me the sound has become that color. When I see that shade of red or I hear a similar sound, often a desk being dragged or a squeaky ladder opening, a chill travels up my back setting off every nerve in my spinal chord and I feel like Ive been jolted out of sleep all over again. Ive tried all sorts of alarm clocks from the buzzing kind to the extremely ineffective gradual wake up variety and none of them work. Its not that they don't wake me up; they do, just not on time. The noise just blends into whatever is running through my head until I eventually open my eyes and realize how late I am |