Waaaaahhh!

First things first: happy birthday natilla and calyx!

Secondly... I got in bed tonight, started reading Ethan of Athos - yes, I giggled at the name, for I am a dork - got to a stopping point around midnight and decided to try and sleep, because I had the bright idea of taking a subbing position for tomorrow.

And then, my brain, which is well known for its wonderful timing, decided to spit up an opening for the fic I've been musing over. That I've been pulling my hair out trying to come up with an opening for, trying to find that momentum. So naturally I had to get up and write the first page, which was about as much as what was spit up. But now I'm afraid to go back to bed because then my brain will start upchucking prose again, and I'll either have to get up and write it or risk it all being lost!

*despairs*

Operation Return to Sender

Okay, this I love.

BOSTON (AP) -"Police! Policia! Police!'' yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain. "Open the door!''

Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira DaSilva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.

In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like DaSilva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out. The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender.

"This sends a message,'' said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding. "When we deport you, we're serious.''

An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanied a fugitive task force as it made Operation Return to Sender raids Tuesday night and early Wednesday. The operation has caught more than 140 immigrants with convictions for sexual offenses against children; 367 known gang members, including street soldiers in the deadly Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; and about 640 people who had already been deported once, immigration officials said. The numbers include more than 720 arrests in California alone. More than 800 people arrested already have been deported.

Keep it up, boys and girls!