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haha on the building being put up across from our office window, a builder is lying flat on a concrete drop - inches from drop to his doom!! - and snoozing in the sun during his lunch-hour

his hard hat is his pillow!!

it is very sweet

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

concrete drop = concrete floor

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

awwwww

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

i don't like it when other people watch me sleep, though; i'm afraid i'm going to fart or something.

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

If you're asleep, how do you know anyway?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

i just looked and he has gone back to work :(

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

on the upside he didn't fall to his death!! so you might get to see him nap tomorrow.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Here's
a French poem which, as far as I can tell, is about this topic.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

If you're asleep, how do you know anyway?

If you get mercilessly teased when you wake up!

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

"haha we saw you using a hard hat for a pillow!"

*BIFF*

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Ken, I don't know if you meant to link to that site, but it's all in gibberish!?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

If you think French is gibberish, Dave, who am I to disagree?

I wonder how hard hat pillow compares with the rock stone version Bob Marley sang about?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I regularly watch sleeping students on my CCTV monitor. They get very comfy in the language labs when they think they're alone. Sadly I don't have audio feed as well, or I could eavesdrop on their snoring.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Why would you want to do that?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

When I can't hold my eyes open another minute, I go crash on the comfy futon in my wife's study and give her a Glenn Branca recital with my snoring.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Because my job is quite dull, I guess.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Watching children sleep is about my twee-est of favorite passtimes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

When a gang of us went on holiday to a cottage recently they all told me how they came into my my bedroom and stood watching me sleep for a few minutes. It freaked me out a lot.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I like to watch people sleeep but whenever I have the chance I always fall asleep first...

Also: taking sneak pictures of sleeping people with their own camera phones = stalker fun! :-)

― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

My eyes are on fire. Later this afternoon, I can almost guarantee that I will be asleep at my desk. I love hallucinating in the trying-to-stay-awake state though...

I woke up on Saturday on the couch to find people looking at me and laughing. wtf. wtf.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

in that situation you have to shout "i wasn't asleep i wz just resting my eyes!"

(i don't know why)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Anne

Anne, who blends into the pale sheets and lets
Her sleepy hair fall over the slits of her eyes
Examines her far off arms softly turned
On the colorless skin of her exposed belly

She empties, she fills with shadow, her slow throat
And like a memory pressing on her own flesh
A shattered mouth full of boiling water
Sloshes round the giant taste and the hint of the seas

Finally, released and free to be fresh
The desert sleeper with tufts of color
Floats on her wan bed and with dry lips
Suckles in the shadows a bitter waft of flowers

And on the bedsheets where the cold-hearted dawn collects
Falls, from an icy arm brushed with scarlet
A whole hand undone and losing pleasure
Through naked fingers untied from humanity

Haphazardly. Evermore in the manless slumber
Free of the sad flashes of their kisses
She lets roll the powerful grapes and apples
Which hung from trellises of bones

Which laughing, in their amber which calls for harvests
And whose golden number of rich movements
Evokes the vigor and strange gesture
Which lovers invent to kill love.

Ken, this is a quick and hence bad translation which I think that if I read the original more and more deeply, I might be able to improve on. Valery takes a lot of patience and work in French so translating him can be a real pain.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Watching people sleep on the bus/train is funny. Especially if they start dribbling down the window or their head and upper body loll sideways into someone's lap. It's even funnier if it's the lap of someone too shy to push/pull them off, er.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Ken, thanks for ditching this thread after all my ~~hard~~ slapdash work.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I appreciated it!

I love watching my husband sleep. There are numerous lovely and adorable things he does in his sleep which I will not enumerate, it's just a little too personal somehow!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I appreciate it, too, but I'm sure Ken will be back.

― youn, Monday, 11 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

What does he do teeny? We have a right to know.

― moley, Monday, 11 April 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

He's a lawyer.

― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Does he mewl, giggle, snort, harrumph? Does he scratch? Scrunch his nose? Mumble?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

He lawyers in bed?!? Lovely and adorable this is not.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I like to watch babies and little kids sleep - that's about it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

And dogs. I always wonder if she's dreaming about us playing in the yard, or the owners she had before us who abandoned her.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I think dogs have dreams. Maybe dreams of chasing rabbits.

― youn, Monday, 11 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I love to watch my cats sleep.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh right, dogs, too. Though when they start howling in their sleep, I get creeped the fuck out.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

I like to watch other people sleep... before I stab 'em.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.criticarte.com/Images/Images1999/TildaSwinton.DormidaPecera.jpg

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

i love to watch others sleep, except when i am driving and they are supposed to be keeping me company!

when i sleep with boys, i usually can not sleep at all, so i watch them sleep (because i'm creepy) and i think it is very beautiful.

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm watching doggie sleep right now, in the arm chair across the room from me. His little paws are twitching, and his ears are swirling all around- awwwwww. I think he's dreaming about our rained out hoops game this afternoon. (Our office building has a basketball court, so I take him out to it when I shoot hoops as a midafternoon break, and he barks at the ball... but we got rained out today. Ball doesn't bounce so well on wet pavement.)

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

GROSSS XPOST

http://wizardishungry.com/hash/2005/4/3/4b3d13ee0497ae83a0dac66df6ecdcdb.jpg

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

WHO IS THE CREEP NOW, JON!?

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Hi Michael,
Sorry it took me so long to get back to the thread- I had to, um, do something more constructive with the computer. Anyway, thanks for the translation, I never could figure out what was going on after the first few lines. For the record, I like to watch cats sleep too. Often when my orange tabby is dozing but still a little bit awake, if you say his name he will thump his tail real hard.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

http://forbiddentruth.8k.com/images/ramirez1.jpg

HI DERE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

My Ex used to freak me out by coming into the bedroom after I'd gone to sleep, and sort of creeping up and sitting on top of me, watching me sleep like The Nightmare in that scary painting. I still don't know why he did it.

If I'm sleeping with someone very good looking, I will watch them sleep, because it's one of the few times you get to really stare at someone and take in the aesthetics of their face without feeling self conscious about it.

― Adherents of the Repeated Kate (kate), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I had to, um, do something more constructive with the computer.

Why do men masturbate more than women?

if you say his name he will thump his tail real hard.

feline consciousness is an amusing thing.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.carpenoctem.tv/img/ramirez.jpg

I SAID HI DERE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I've had enough of this thread. Adios, amigos.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant Plains, what a creepy photo.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the translation Michael.

Last night I woke up because M shouted 'RACH - SNORING' at me. Apparently he does this all the time and usually I just stop snoring without waking up. I don't know if this is gross or cute.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

My gf just pokes me and I stop snoring, apparently.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

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