peace and war

 we had a really nice dinner, then we put mr smear to bed, and then we went to bed almost immediately after that. around midnight, everyone was up to give mr smear his prophylactic meds (his eye apparently started tingling, there was some drama i forgot to mention yesterday), and i managed to hurt my back while getting up (by lying back down when there was a pillow behind me) and couldn't fall back to sleep.

so i spent the following four hours playing shadowrun and setting up one of my side projects for an experiment.

by the time i went to bed, i was feeling pretty great. that lasted until, mid-dream, i was wrenched out of my slumbed by a 6.30am siren. we all scrambled to the shelter, and after ten minutes came back upstairs. i was still in sleep mode, but by that point my entire existence was feeling pretty upside down, so while i stayed in bed for another half an hour i didn't really get much rest.

now i'm up, mr smear's completing the unfinished homework from last night, and i'm hoping the coffee does its thing quickly.