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13 July 2010
you know what is really great when you can't fall asleep?→[More:]
really loud claps of thunder every time you start to relax.
This is why I hate thunderstorms. When people tell me how relaxing they are, I remind them that it seemed like thunderstorms usually liked to happen right over my house.
Yup, nothing like it. There's a slight variation where you're deeply into your REM cycle and there's a sudden single thunderclap right over the house. Waking up when you're two feet above the mattress because the noise has caused your muscles to shoot you directly UP!!! is equaled only by the landing and figuring out that the rumbling noise tailing off over the sleepy and incoherent swearing was all that was left of the thunder in question.
And then you lie there waiting for the rest of it, but God's other boot never falls and you end up having a shit nights sleep. Yay weather!