Things that make it hard to sleep

1. At 3:21 every morning, for at least two minutes, the radiator right beside my bed sounds like it's being bludgeoned with a tire iron.

2. The nocturnal birds outside my window really get a kick of out belting out their night tunes from 1 a.m. until the sun comes up, when they're drowned out by the other birds just getting up for a full day of chirping and puking up worms for their babies.

But I always manage to fall asleep. It just gets later and and later every night ...