2018-12-30

sovay: (Sydney Carton)
This year I have learned that after a six-week hell-cold I really cannot expect to take one-off recovery days in between intense expenditures of energy and just bounce right back, especially when one of those recovery days was actually Christmas Eve. Today is at least not a holiday, but the most I've managed to do with it so far is eat some leftover fruitcake. On the other hand, I am not literally in bed as I type these words and I feel pretty good about that. (I'm on a couch and that makes all the difference.) Have some links.

1. I had not previously seen and adore this one-off answer to a reader question: "Lackadaisy Expedition." It's not that I don't enjoy both Viktor and Mordecai as cats, but they really make for some damn fine humans.

2. I was reading this article on the internet and the year of Mark Zuckerberg, not actually disagreeing with it but being reminded of other laments for the lost and less monetized internet which I too miss, and then the author pulled out Augustus. "Well, nothing brings people together like an empire."

3. Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: nine sitting positions of Jeremy Brett. Granada Holmes, of course. I feel like the middle gif may have been one of my life goals since childhood.

Even so, my godchild takes selfies of themselves with me. From the Pollo Rico in Wheaton before I fled for yesterday's train, courtesy of an eight-year-old purple-and-pink-haired hockey player with the reading comprehension of an AP student and a build like one of those anime characters who are ninety percent leg, not that you can tell from this angle:

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