15:54, 16/09/2013

The epistolary insomniac (#1 in an ongoing series)

Hi Maddie,

I forgot to tell you something in my previous msg...

I finally got to sleep about 4am on Wednesday night but was woken again when there was some sort of power failure in the hotel at around six.

This meant that all the lightswitches, keycard, aircon etc stopped working, which would have been fine as I probably would not have noticed and slept through, were it not for the fact that, in addition, the main overhead light suddenly came on at about half normal brightness (I assume it's a safety feature in the windowless rooms) and it was impossible to turn back off (due to aforementioned non functioning light switches.)

I can't adequately describe how irritating a room full of half dimmed light can be to an insomniac. But you know that.

I assume this also happened in all the other rooms. There was suddenly a lot of running around and muttering and slamming outside for probably about half an hour. I just buried my face in my duvet and tried to shut it out.

The next time I woke, the aircon was back on, the lights were off and the room was dark again.

But it was 9.30 and time to shower and check out.

It was not a dream.

Honestly, I find it hard enough to sleep at the best of times without this kind of shit.

How was your day?

Talk soon,

Kxx

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