10.02.2009

skinfluteA music teacher at a middle school was arrested today for indecent exposure in a medical office.

Police say that a doctor was treating the man’s relative, when the man initiated conversation with the receptionist and flashed her.

The man taught music for 11 years and remains in police custody.

Apparently this was his first time trying to teach anatomy (don’t quit, your day job).

My mother has this fan which sounds like my cat Pickle Sub chewing on a plastic bag: one the most annoying sounds known to plague the earth; particularly at 5 am.  I woke up learningdominosrepeatedly the past couple of nights I’ve been staying with my mom, poised to throw a pillow at the feline perpetrator (obviously oceans away).  It’s weird how I can sleep through most loud noises: the television, music, the Dominicans in my neighborhood drinking and playing dominos until 4 in the morning…

However, give me a quiet, small noise: the fan whirring, a clock ticking, the hum of an old computer, and it keeps me up for hours! My only defense is to make a head white-noisesandwich with a couple of pillows.

It’s only been very recent that I’m able to fall asleep with the TV on.  I don’t have a TV in my bedroom, like most.  A lot of people prefer the white noise during sleep; that’s why so many people fall asleep when the TV is on regardless of whether or not they are attempting sleep. 

 If you’re used to sleeping with the TV on, why wouldn’t you fall asleep at random while viewing?  Many studies now link sleep problems to the presence of a television set in the bedroom and studies show that sleeping with the TV on results in fitful sleep from the outside stimulus.   I can vouch for this:  Once when I fell asleep with the TV on, I dreamt I was eating a giant marshmallow… I think I was watching Willy Wonka.  When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

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