BBC at night

I have developed the terrible habit of listening to BBC America as I fall asleep. Not that BBC is intrinsically bad, don’t get me wrong. It does terrific coverage of international news. Which of course is mostly bad news. Which is my problem. I listen to stories about war and natural disasters and super viruses as I try to fall into sweet dreams. Why do I do this to myself? Well, it started because I sometimes have trouble falling asleep. I generally read until I can’t keep my eyes open, often waking after a few hours to turn off the light and place a bookmark. But about a year ago, that stopped working. My eyes would close, but I wouldn’t drift off. I would start to worry. About, you know, whatever. And then I would be awake. And I would worry about the fact that I was still awake. Which would wake me up more. So I started turning on the radio to distract me from my night-thoughts.
But regular radio stations didn’t work, because the commercials would come on and they would be so much louder than the music had been that they would wake me up. So I switched to OPB, played at a really low volume. Before midnight it’s usually some dumb world music show or other, which is mellow. But woe to the Willow who goes to bed late, because after 12 it’s floods and famine on BBC.
My CD player is broken, BTW. And all of my tapes are kept in my car. I could jimmy rig my ipod to my stereo somehow. That might work. When I lived in Ireland I would fall asleep with my headphones on.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
Yesterday Mike, Josh, Ryan, Gene and I went to a Timbers game (Timbers won 2-1). On the way out a girl looked over at us and shouted, “I read your website!” Mike smiled and waved at her. Because he was in the newspaper for UrHo. But then we crossed the street and she yelled my name. “Willow!! I read your website!!” So I shouted, “You read MY website? I thought you meant HIS!” pointing to Mike. She yelled, “Oh yeah, his too.”
Boo ya!
I am Internet famous, thank you very much. I was even wearing a hat and she recognized me! I fully intend to let this go to my head. I think I am in line for some sweet dreams now, right?