Newfangled Alarm Cat

a few days ago, while miserably sick, i was sleeping on the couch....this was because i was having difficulty falling asleep, and was thrashing about in bed, which was keeping my poor girlfriend from sleeping too...so i tried to sleep on the couch...we have this odd cat, btw...he is about 10, small (maybe7 lbs), who wandered in from the road years ago as a 4 week old kitten and stayed...his name is spaz, and he has the loudest fucking meow i have ever heard...he is normally quiet until he wants something (usually out), then he starts to meow....one or two moderately quiet ones, and then he starts cranking them out with increasing volume and frequency...just like an alarm clock....so there i am, sort of alseep, and having a very odd dream, which i can't recall when the alarm cat goes off...being sick, groggy and confused, i start flailing around behind my head for the alarm, which of course is in the other room on the headboard where it belongs...obviously the alarm is now getting louder and faster and i still am not aware that i'm not in the bed and that this is the cat, not alarm, begin thrashing spaticly around in a frantic daze trying to shut the damn thing off...this results in my knoing seveal things off the side table, and then falling off the couch , which wakes me up...though it takes another couple of minutes to sort out, that the cat is the noise, i wasn't dreaming, and i must do something to appease him so he will stop...my fuzzy brain connects the dots, i tumble to my feet, walk to the door, so of course the damn cat runs into the kitchen...we play ring around the kitchen a few times bfore i finally catch hime and put him outside....i am now of course wide awake, at 7 in the morning, no hope of falling back asleep and confused as hell, because i can't shake the thought that this was all some deranged dream...nope just another day it seemed....thankfully the thrashing tapered off, so i'm back to sleeping in the bed, but one thing is for sure....i will take an alarm clock over that new fangled alarm cat anytime....he has no sleep button, and you have to chase him to shut his alarm off, which is not how i like waking up at all.