Oh what a beautiful morning...

One of the many exciting features of the building I recently moved into is a pulse accelerator. What happens is someone will turn on the fire alarm in the dead of the night, say three thirty am, and instantly you wake up from that pesky sleep to find your pulse rate has doubled! No more wondering how your body would react to being awoken from a REM cycle by a loud constant, high-pitched ringing!

Also, you'll get to experience something I like to call "What Should I Do Now?". This is what you do while you're figuring out if this is a real or false alarm. You see after the alarm goes off you wonder if you should get dressed and go outside or just stay in bed or maybe wait until the fire is at your door then jump outside the window. You can't go to sleep until the ringing stops and that could take up to twenty minutes so you gotta fill the time up with something! Some of the activities include covering your ears, sniffing for smoke, plotting the death of the person who tripped the alarm, going to the door and looking out the peephole, popping your head out into the hall and give it an angry glare, waiting for the fire department to break down your door, and my favorite, counting how many hours you have left before you have to wake up and get ready for work (one and a half!). Oh, its great fun.

Just move into my building in Hollywood and you'll find out! It happens randomly at least twice a month, sometimes two nights in a row (if you're lucky!).