I dub thee: Heel Clomper

There she goes again, my upstairs neighbor. It sounds like she’s wearing itty bitty heels and is just clomping around the entire apartment. She has made about four trips so far from the far wall back to the wall I’m next to, which, if her apartment is laid out like mine, mean she’s venturing from the living room to the bedroom and then maybe on to the bathroom. Pretty normal for a morning routine, I guess. Most of the time these folks (whoop, she just started another lap) are fine, but that [I assume female] person with the heels and the occasional loud thud! always get me wondering what they’re up to. It used to drive me crazy when, with regularity, every time I’d go to bed ’round 11pm or 12am, a heavy-footed but not heel-wearing person would stomp around. It’s always perfectly quiet up to that time, and usually is for a few preceding hours, and then they get the urge to move around. They have an uncanny sense of when I’ve turned the lights off and gotten into bed. I’ve gotten used to this and just turn the fan on my heater to On instead of Auto, and that’s so loud it drowns out all of the thuds and stomps. Hey, it’s quiet up there now! I wonder if she left for the day. Living underneath someone when always before I sought out the top floor of an apartment building has been an experience. It makes me worry that I’ve clomped around and annoyed whoever lived under me. For most of my apartments, there has been carpeting so that would dull the noise a bit. This one and one previous in which I lived, though, had wood floors and that stuff just echoes.

On a side note, I’ve been fiddling around with this site the past couple of days. My Stackoverflow, Github, Pandora, ColourLovers, Delicious, and Twitter posts will no longer show up as posts here. Flickr will, because I like sharing photos on here and don’t always remember to embed them individual posts to talk about them. My latest Twitter post (er, I guess that’d be “Tweet”) shows up in the sidebar, if you’re using the Block Pastel theme. I’m also itching to design a new theme for the site, but I imagine that won’t happen until after finals because I need to be studious and not tinker with CSS, even though I would much rather do that than prepare for an algorithms final.