chinese new year not so far

i feel it is my utter and outright duty as the person i am to inform you that i have already been awake for two hours.

my siblings, whom i've chased away to my mother's place for the week (for the purposes of sanity) are still asleep. i also suspect that when i called my mother to tell her when was the optimal time to drop the kids off here, i had woken her up.

purposes of sanity, indeed. and to think that i thought i might not wake on time even with three alarms set at regular intervals (i have only be harder on myself for classes and, more recently, dawn's photo shoots) between seven and seven-thirty--at eight-thirty my aural world exploded inside my head as a lion dance troupe did their thing next door.