Neighbors

For the last two days I’ve gone home after work, played Factorio, eaten dinner, continued playing Factorio until getting tired or frustrated around 8:30, and then read fanfiction until falling asleep. I was re-reading an old Twilight fanfiction that I haven’t read in a few years. It was interesting to read, but when I finished it I was really dissatisfied. After finishing that last night I had some difficulty falling asleep so I also played a bit of Sudoku, and even then I wasn’t very sleepy but I finally managed to drift off some time after 1 AM. I woke up a few times in the night, and then kept waking up after 6 for various reasons so I finally just got up.

I was very grumpy and I internally complained about my living situation. The room’s size and layout is nice, really quite perfect for my purposes. However, the sounds and vibrations are concerning. The lesser annoyance, but the one that woke me up this morning, was one of my neighbors (probably my co-worker) walking around shortly after six with heavy footfalls. That’s always been slightly annoying to me just as unnecessary sound pollution, but since I sleep on the floor the real problem is the vibrations that it causes, which tend to wake me up.

The more major annoyance is my neighbors on the other side, whom I suspect to have at least one child around the age of three, and maybe an infant as well. Almost every night between 9 and 9:30, but also sometimes earlier and later, this child seems to pitch a fit for about 20 minutes. It also happens two or three times a week in the mornings. I don’t think it directly affects my sleep, but it does make me a little more irritable.