Update on the ghetto/ghost stereo! Yog Sothoth was right; there was, in fact, a timer on the stereo, that had somehow been set, and gone off... the best guess is that in order for the timer to go off, the stereo has to be on... and since I rarely look at the thing, my guess is it had been left on, the timer had kicked on (probably right about midnight), and so Gabe walked in to lovely creepy music... :)

Damn, our apartment isn't haunted... I'll have to try harder to get a haunted apartment next time I go looking... :) Though that's not gonna happen for a while... I like my apartment being within walking distance of campus, and lots of good food... and I'd rather not move just yet, cuz moving is a pain...

So it practically looks like night time outside right now... it's gonna storm, and it's gonna be both soon and violent... poo... the good news is, while I'm on campus, it's highly doubtful that the power will go out... the bad news, of course, is that it is entirely possible for it to go out at home... I should probably call Gabe and get him to shut the computers down before it hits...

It also appears that it may rain for the entire next week... yuck... not only does this mean I'll have to get Gabe to drive me to and from work, it also means that I won't be able to get online from home (cuz our phone line goes to hell when it rains)... and that sucks super much for tonight, when my options are a) play the Sims, or b) get online and talk to people... I prefer the latter, only because it's slightly more entertaining... :)

Ah well, enough rambling and ranting for now... guess I'll work some more... I've already accomplished a reasonable amount, for having been here about an hour... :)

It's time for "Dawn's really weird story of the week"... :)

So Tuesday night, Gabe went to play Marvel with the boys... this left me at home... I ended up online for about 3 hours or so, chatting with assorted friends, and randomly surfing... any rate, around 10:30, I decided to go to bed... put "Labyrinth" in the DVD player, and tried to go to sleep... took me a little while, but I finally fell asleep...

I wake up about quarter after 12... the end credits are rolling, and Gabe is home... and he comes into the bedroom to ask me why I had the stereo on if I was watching a movie... I'm half asleep, but I am at least coherent enough to say that I didn't have the stereo on, just the movie...

Okay, this is just plain weird... the stereo, which had been turned off, had come on, and started playing a CD... my first thought was that maybe, somehow, Gabe coming in to the apartment was enough to move the air to nudge the on button and the play button... even with our ghetto-fabulous stereo, sometimes you only have to press play once... but then he told me that it was on the 2nd track of the CD that was playing, right when he walked in the door... so that doesn't make sense...

I've never been known to sleepwalk, so the chances of me having turned it on are pretty slim... and it's not possible for anyone else to have come in and turned it on... so my best guesses are psychic powers, ghosts, or something really bizarre with air currents and such... *shrug*... in other words, no good explanation... :)

What's really creepy, though, is that the 2nd track on that CD (Cruxshadows, if you were curious) starts out with fairly creepy organ music... so that's what was playing when he walked in to the apartment... :)