This is kind of a different thing to what you’d usually expect, just wanted to comment on the view. So I’m stood in a university study bedroom on the seventh floor of a building that overlooks the industrial part of town. The gf is asleep in the bed but I’m still awake due to the inhuman amounts of caffeine in a popular cola brand. She’s having trouble sleeping and I just don’t want to. But the view makes you realise how mundane it all is. In order there is a cooking oil recycling plant, some roadworks, which smell horrifically of molten Tarmac, a timber plant, some cheap ass flats, the football stadium (a monument to mediocrity), a church spire and just roads. Also a rather famous local monument affectionately known as “Rape Bridge”. Has anyone actually been raped there? I don’t know personally, it’s still fucking creepy. Oh and if I crane my neck I can see the toll bridge. The one all the suicidal people jump off. The one with communication boxes direct to the Samaritans, all of which are out of order… Go figure. They’ll make you pay £25 to deliver to the Co-Op on the other side of the bridge, but won’t fix the suicide prevention hotline boxes. Ain’t life peachy… And a drunk man just fell over on the pavement outside… He’s not getting up. Either he’s unconscious or napping… No wait, he’s up, and he’s pissed himself. Fantastic, gotta love some peoples self respect. He thinks no one knows he soiled himself, but we know the truth now… I know someone who got mugged near here once, that’s pretty bad. He’s alright it didn’t affect him too adversely… And next to me the gf tosses and turns, failing at sleep. I should go too but it’s a single bed and I don’t have the heart to make her move… The sun is starting to appear just in the distance… The sky is red also, now does this count as red sky at night, or red sky in the morning, given the weird transitional nature of the current time (half 4 in the morning, FYI). Another drunkard walks by, he’s seen me in the window and yes… He’s just flipped me off, therefore I shall respond in kind. A d now he’s double flipping me off and… Because he wasn’t looking where he was going, he just tripped over. Victory to me I guess. I have no idea what roadworks they’re doing but it involves closing a bridge and a half ton of scaffolding, so it must be pretty big. A lone woman just walked across Rape Bridge, she must be brave, or new in town. Point is who else is out at this hour except unlucky people? So many little lights out there in the distance, each one attached to its own life, its own story. Tons of seagulls outside… Yet nothing to feed on… It’s pretty much daylight out there now… Will I get any sleep? Doubtful… Could try relacing my new shoes. Britt blue adidas mid tops, not what you’d expect from me, given how I’m currently wearing a rob zombie shirt, but I like to have something unique to me, might as well go for the shoes… And this is now officially a long rambling post, probably dull as all hell, so well done if you’ve made it this far. And now your reward:
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There’s some boobs for your troubles. The sky is deep shade of red, almost like it’s been cut and is bleeding… Somewhere in the distance, a crane just started to swing its arm around… Someone somewhere is at work now… 3 more drunk guys… Or maybe guys on their way to work. I’d choose the first option as they’re dressed too nice fashionable for work… That and one just fell over. What’s out there, those lights in the distance? Is it man or machine? Gods or monsters? Wow this is coming across as pretentious… I guess I just needed to get the thoughts out of my head… Doubt I’d have this opportunity to do it again… A man just flagrantly cycled past the sign that reads cyclists please dismount… I guess the interesting question is why? It’s definitely daylight now, streetlights are going out, and more people are starting to materialise… The river is out in the distance… Reflecting off the red sky it looks like blood, like a wound on the landscape, ironic, given it was here before all the boats and building and stuff… There is no bloody way I’m getting any sleep now… Tbh I’m not even supposed to be here, rules clearly state no overnight guests… But unless the fat security guard does a random check (and why would he?) I’m sure it’ll be fine… Frankly she payed to stay in here and if she wants the entire fucking Walton family to stay it should be her choice, provided they don’t inconvenience anyone else. And I’m as quiet as they can get… There’s a kids playpark near Rape Bridge, which I’m now calling Paedophile Park, as it’s just a really odd place to have one… That and there’s an old man just stood in it. No dog, no kids and no need to be there… He just is. Bit early I’d imagine though… yeh, it’s daylight now… And she wants me to come to bed, thinking I need the sleep, maybe I do, but it’s too much of a squeeze… And now it’s 5 am. I’ve been at this for an hour and what do I have to show for it? A lot of pointless bullshit and probably insomnia… Coke is the devil, and caffeine is the pointy, flaming pitchfork he wields… Fuck, maybe I am tired… Chances are I’ll only sleep about 5-7 hours (if I go at all that is). And I haven’t even been on the PS3 to warrant staying up this late… I never really noticed how quick night changes into day, it’s a lot faster than I imagined it would be… Shame nothing is open, bar the McDonalds on the other side of town… And I can’t even see my house from here… I guess I’d have finished this earlier but I have no idea where a good end point would be… Maybe here? No, too obvious. People are starting to wake up now. In the buildings directly across from the windows lights are flicking on… Clearly some people have work… Unlucky. And I have to type for 6 minutes before I’ve been doing this for an hour… I might try and sleep after that… I guess this post was just to clear my head of all the useless asinine thought really… It’s definitely daylight though…I think I’m officially nocturnal now. That can’t be good… Oh well, fuck it, more time to do stuff I can’t during the day I guess. The human body needs only a few hours of sleep before you start to get all kinds of messed up, I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again. I am getting hungry though… That’s not good either… 2 minutes to go before the hour now… And it’s odd how busy it actually is at night. Between the massive delivery lorries, the 3 freight trains I saw and the surprisingly large amount of regular people who should really be asleep, it’s definitely an odd experience… But it is day now. A day like any other. And there’s the hour. If you made it to this point, more to you as that last chunk of silly letters was pretty dire, let’s be honest. I’m going to try and sleep now…
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