The streetlights only changing 'cause they ain't got nothing better to do

[sovay]

The fact is that I'm not doing fantastically at the moment. Physically, emotionally, I feel awful; I know some of it is the state of the world and I am hoping the rest of it is the state of my allergies. Last night spatch and I made spaghetti alla sort-of-puttanesca and watched Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci's Big Night (1996), because it is the sort of movie one cannot watch without Italian food on hand. Tonight we are going to embark on a lemon cake.

I got outside for a bit, where my tolerance for people who won't maintain distance is rapidly approaching the other side of the earth. I have yet to catch it in really good light, but the weeping cherry is really flourishing.



It was smashingly windy and colder than I had budgeted for. On my return, it was determined that if I'd just had some small angular glasses that really caught the light, I could have been some kind of mad science manga villain.

Comments

[yhlee]

*support support*

[pameladean]

I love the cloudiness of the weeping cherry photo that you got.

I am not doing so very well either, though my actual health is not as much affected. And I have got to say, being a mad scientist manga villain has a very strong appeal right now.

I hope the lemon cake is restorative.

P.

[phi]

I am really enjoying your photos of the sakura! The ones in our neighborhood are all still very young and years away from the riotous bounty of blossoms you've been capturing.

[moon_custafer]

You’ve certainly got the mask and the dramatic strand of hair going on!

[kathmandu]

Sympathies. And allergies can make lots of things weird.

[selkie]

Surely you already own steampunk goggles??

Today’s micro-frustration was a mis-mangled prescription that was going to involve physically breaching a Target, so we placed also a car pickup order, and lots was missing, but then on what passes for a whim these days I turned down an aisle to look for catnip spray and saw through THAT aisle an end cap of stuff that had been in the order and got left out, and I KNOW it is the utmost privilege to do a pickup order, but I then scavenger-hunted through Target longer than I wanted because they HAD all the rationed stuff, you’re just REQUIRED to come in and get it if it’s rationed. What are immunocompromised people supposed to DO to get toilet roll, my pulmonary hypertension asks?!

Fuck everything and would you like an outgrown hockey stick to distance people with?

[gwynnega]

I'm sorry you're feeling awful. I'm not doing great either, between the pandemic, vertigo, and allergies.

That is a lovely photo of the weeping cherry.

I wish you did have the small angular glasses to complete the manga villain look!

[asakiyume]

The cherry really is gorgeous. You look like just the dark shade to linger beneath it.

[umadoshi]

*hugs you*

The weeping cherry is exquisite.

[lilysea]

On my return, it was determined that if I'd just had some small angular glasses that really caught the light, I could have been some kind of mad science manga villain.

Heh! :D

[thawrecka]

That's a really cool mad science manga villain look.

My tolerance for people who won't social distance is wearing thin, also. I switched my daily walk to the morning so I wouldn't have to deal with the sudden crowds of walkers in the afternoon, but the supermarket is always unpleasantly cramped, and I get claustrophobia in crowds at the best of times.

[rfmcdonald]

Hello!

[shewhomust]

That's an unexpectedly good look! You, not the cherry. The cherry is also good, but not unexpectedly ...