Aurealis!

Squawk woke me at 5am this morning (needing moral support to make it through a fart — we both survived physically unscathed, despite her fears to the contrary), and as I always do I checked my phone. My phone is my brain these days. I can't tell if she's really hungry or just fussing unless I know what time it is now and what time it was that she last ate, and yes, I know I have a brain for just this circumstance but did you know brains don't function quite so awesomely after a few days (let alone months) of sleep deprivation?

Anyrate, that's all beside the point, because in checking my phone I found not only the time, but a rather attention-grabbing tweet:

Of course I then had to google and you guys:

"First They Came…" has been short-listed for an Aurealis Award!

I am so chuffed that even though I got Squawk safely back to sleep, and even though you must always, always, always sleep when the baby is sleeping, I haven't been able to close my eyes for the buzzing in my blood. I pretty much currently look like this (sans the rabbits):