Nothing Special

Today I woke up late to go to Bet Sefer Sharet, at exactly 7:45.  This is the second time this has happened, which can lead me to only one conclusion--but first, some background:

I am a very heavy sleeper.  I sleep like a deaf rock wearing noise-canceling headphones missing both ears.  I could sleep through a war.  Thus, I have to set three alarms, and make sure to put them far away from me, otherwise I will subconsciously turn them off.  So every night before I go to bed a set my cell phone alarm (a mildly annoying chirping), my clock alarm (a mildly annoying buzzing), and my iPod alarm (an Earth-shattering bugle horn) all for 7 AM.  This should give me enough time to wake up, eat breakfast, and shower.

Since this isn't happening, however, I suspect this:

I have been subconsciously putting my alarms on snooze every morning when they all ring at 7.  The cell phone alarm has a snooze time of 9 minutes, the clock has a snooze time of 5 minutes, and the iPod has a snooze time of 15 minutes.  What I think is happening, then is that I continue hitting snooze on each of these alarms until they all ring at the same time once again and jolt me into awakening.  It's actually starting to get really annoying, hopefully I'm wrong and this is just because I'm sick.

I had to leave the school early today (at like 11:40 as opposed to 12:45) because my fever kept rising.  I went home and collapsed into my bed, wherein I had a restless, sweaty nap until 3:20.  It was terrible.  When I awoke, I coughed and spit up a bit of bloody mucus.  There is a slight chance I'm dying, perhaps from tuberculosis.  Hopefully not.

I then went down to the Ulpan for our first actual Ulpan Class (Hebrew Classes), to find out that I am in the highest level (7).  This presents a bit of a challenge for me, as I have difficulty reading and writing, but I'm excited to learn how to better.  It's probably best that I was put in this class, because I speak Hebrew pretty fluently.  I was surprised at the speaking skills of the others in the class (I expected them to be better, so I felt more assured about my own skill).

Anyway, I'll probably end up spending the night chilling a bit in Scott's/Nathan's/Simon's/BenJirik's/Aaron's apartment, then going to bed early.  I have a Siyur (tour) tomorrow, a walking tour of Old Jaffo (kind of the Arabic section of Tel-Aviv), it should be pretty fun.

Wishing you all well!