Alma resists being woken but is also chronically prone to sleeping through her alarm—a clip from “Blitzkrieg Bop” that blares, startlingly, on a violent loop, almost fatally scaring Mark and Julia no matter how far they happen to be from their daughter’s room and yet somehow failing to wake Alma—so she runs late almost every day, which means Julia, who drives her to school when she runs late, also runs late almost every day.
im the daughter and mother all in one
