h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

 I need an alarm clock with some zing! An alarm clock with a powerful processor and gigs and gigs of memory and the ability to pick up radio signals from the far reaches of the Milky Way!

Then I'd not have missed my auditions today.

Both of them.

Damn it.

Sounds like me. Except when I *really* have to get up, like when there's a plane to catch or something, then I can usually make it. But otherwise I can cat nap through 3+ hours of an alarm going off every 7 minutes. And the alarm is not next to the bed, either. I have to get up out of it to turn it off, every 7 minutes. It's ridiculous.

I remember when I was a kid my Dad said that all he had to do to wake up on time was to wet his finger and write the hour he wanted to wake up on his forehead.

Although he's an idiot.

Strange habit. I usually wake up on my side.

Well like I said, he's one of those people that can just lie down and turn off for 6 hours. I on the other hand usually wake up with my head stuck between the wall and the head of the bed.

Neat trick. I can't usually escape the confines of my body to wake up on my side. I usually wake up on the other side.