I think part of my reluctance to go to bed and therefore to sleep tonight is the fact that when I woke up this morning, it was from a dream sequence involving a lot of running around, getting with people and supplies, and jumping in holes and otherwise trying to secure the area to survive a nuclear war that was due to start Any Time Now.

It was not a settling dream, and I think JD was in it, providing a surreal element of plausibility and timeframe to something that should have been garden-variety modern horror.

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I'm not young enough to get away with saying "I want my mommy", but I think I can safely snivel that I would prefer to spend my dreaming moments in the protective presence of my best friend.