Behold The Sleeping Messanger of Mt. Olympus

Aparently "She should dum dem - or klepper Fishes day" - but I'll get to that a little later...

Luke Leslie Autumn 2006

Its not that often you get to write an article about something in the present tense - That means - as its still happening for all you remos in Arts in UCD. I feel very inclined to write something right now because it's been so long since I've written anything on here, and also that my current subject is journalistic Gold.

I'm currently sitting at my computer (where else?) at aprox 4-am, Barrie is asleep on the sofa in the living room across the hall and lying behind me on the sofa bed is Ben Kirwan, the man, the myth, the occasional ucd student, and as of tonight the magic word whisper-man child. Also known as Sleep talker.

I had the lads down this evening, we watched a few tv shows, got a mysterious phone call from alex glenn murray, and to the best of my knowledge nobody was drinking or doing any magic substances etc. Yet here I am - and Ben is talking the most ridiculous cyber-babble I've ever heard. This is fucking hilarious! I quote - aparently "She should dum dem, or klepper fishes day!" ..........What?

Yeah - is the only response I can fathom, he continues "can jammer-wod he's gone it!" followed constantly by the odd twitch which keeps me on my toes. Leading me to believe he's about to wake up and catch me writing this about him... this is like Field Journalism except instead of the battlefields of wartime Iraq I have the sub-conscience battlefield of Ben Kirwan.

The funniest part is - you know how when the TV is on and your asleep the late night movies sound fx might weasel their way into your dreams? Well I'm watching Tony Soprano and the rest of New Jerseys Crime Syndicate shooting up the joint - and he must be having one fucked up dream if he can hear this. Who's Lucy, Ben? And Sharon? They feature constantly in this evenings Tounge like preahings. A lot of what he has said is also totally indecypherable and basically sounds like "Wod goobble gobble" so perhaps in his mind... he's a turkey - I don't know, ask Ed - His sister has a First Class Degree in Psychology which makes him the resident expert.

Also - Short of bullying poor old Ben, who I hope is getting a kick out of reading this tomorrow, But seriously man - you make some funny ass noises in your sleep! You know the kinda "sap sap sap" noise people make with their lips after they've just had a really satisfying meal? Well Ben has officially been doing that for about 5 minutes.

I gotta go to bed - but I wish I had a camera lying around to time lapse record this performance for the rest of the night! Also note: constant Velocoraptor noises fail to wake him, he's obviously become immune and de-sensitised to them - just a something to take into account should you find yourself in a similar situation in the near future.

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