Mortality

[greenstorm]

Dreamed that I was back in my old home, the one I grew up in, and I was scheduled to die the next day. I didn't want to.

Now I'm awake in a hotel and it's killing cold outside. I'm tired but the person in the room above me is walking around.

One of the things that makes me bad at cities is how much trouble I have with people-sounds from the ceiling.

Comments

[amazon_syren]

My wife has the same problem (with people-sounds).

I would love to be able to find us an affordable (ahahahaha...) bungalow nearby that was fully detached.
It ain't gonna happen - at least not without (a) an additional 4th part-time job for me, and (b) a pretty massive down-payment suddenly Just Lying Around. But it's something I'd like to be able to do.
I think she'd find Home a lot more of a refuge if we were somewhere fully-detached.

[yarrowkat]

noise is one of the worst things about cities. at least with light pollution you can usually control your specific environment enough to screen it out (ie, wearing an eye mask). but noise is also vibration and while earplugs can dampen it if one can tolerat them, it's still very feel-able, and nothing actually makes it go away.