insomnia has once again taken my attention, even though i have been sleeping so so well these past few days.

turns out, i have to let the kind angels in my blood sing me their lullaby to get to sleep. now, is that a drawn out way to say i have to lay in silence instead of listening to youtube videos until the ringing in my ears knocks me out? i mean, yeah. but tinnitus isn't nearly as romantic as having a haunting enigma sing me her saccharine melody to soothe my weary eyes now is it

but onto much less cheerful subject matter, the reason my sleeplessness has once again reared its ugly head. you see, i live in what some would ungraciously call the 'bad side of town', myself included because it has proven that title is very much deserved.

while my neighbors aren't terrible people (i recall a late night helping the older woman across the street get her dog back inside because her son wasn't home from work yet to chase it back, and another day lending a leash to a younger kid down the road to bring his dog back home. lot of dogs running around the neighborhood, it drives Doofus up a wall, but what can you do /shrug; )

there is almost constant nebulous gun fire day and night, sometimes far away, sometimes what sounds like a few houses over, sometimes in the yard of the house across the street because they just.

play with those.

in the yard.

for some reason.

anyway. around about 2am there were multiple heavy artillery sounding shots, so close they woke up Both of my roommates, and so loud the vc chat could actually hear it for once. and then about half an hour later, police were knocking on the door.

so yeah, suffice to say i'm not having a snooze anytime soon tonight ahaha. . . the sooner we can move away from here the better. i can't take much more of these nights afraid i won't wake up tomorrow because someone got into an argument and decided a gun was the answer.