Why! 4am?
 

Some fraternities are located on campus grounds, at Texas, they're not. We're located close to campus, in the area known as "west campus" where it's 90% students. Recently Austin changed the zoning laws and such so developers could go on a rampage destroying tons of old apartments to build new, huge ones. By law they can't start working until 7AM, but it's 4AM and I can hear the trucks already lining the streets, leaving their engines running.

I'm up now still writing a paper, but I couldn't tell you how many mornings I've been woken up by trucks getting ready to unload materials early in the morning. Also having to pay for a new tire every time I run over a nail that they left in the road.

My focus is, what annoyances do you find around your house? There are a lot of hippies here, they are annoying.

3 comments:

1) Arriving at 4am for 7am work seems a bit odd. That being said, you don't shut off a diesel engine, you let it idle...unless you're at a cemetery.

2) I don't think "woken" is a word. But I use it, so it must be a Texas thing.

3) Hippies are bad for the enviroment. If you don't like them you should transfer to A&M, unless you're studying something like journalism.

About 26 trains run through College Station each day (for those of you who've never been fortunate enough to visit College Station, a train track cuts right through the middle of A&M's campus). I used to wake up at 2 in the morning as a train was nearing a street crossing. Fortunately I graduated several years ago so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

Oh, and I think woken is a word.

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..." ?????????????????

This happened when I lived at U of L, the ROTC guys would run & chant at 5AM past the dorms.

I feel your pain.

Hippies still exist?:confused:

Come to Austin.

Dang. I guess I will, next time we go home (Brenham).

I remember when we'd boat down the river back in the day and you'd see Hippie Hollow over on the side with naked hippies on the banks.

Fotunately I got use to the train noise, what I didn't like is that the train itself would often make me late to class. BTW, I use "woken" as well.

They're doing it to annoy you. :p

There was one summer where I stayed at school, living in the dorms. Typically, each dorm will have 2 or 3 floors open, and repairs are done in the rest of the building. They weren't supposed to start until 8am, but they always started by 6am or so. I was living on the top floor of the building, and one morning I was awakened at 6:30 by footsteps overhead... they were fixing the roof. (6:30 is not as bad as 4, but still...)

When it snowed, snow plows would be deployed around campus, and snow removal would start as soon as the snow stopped - day or night. So you'd be woken up by the intermittent beep beep beep of a snow plow in reverse. On the one hand, I was glad the snow was removed and the paths were (reasonably) safe by the time I had to go to class; on the other hand, I wanted to sleep at night!

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger...
I wanna live a life of Danger..."

(Maybe the chants have changed since my time...)

PT is always run at o'dark-thirty!
Don't you remember the military slogan
"We get more done before 9 am than most people get done in a day"?

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

When would you use "awoken"